A quick post from the road…
Yesterday we had the opportunity to visit the Mission District in San Francisco. This area of the city is well known for its many dramatic and beautiful murals that grace the walls of buildings.
A walk down the famous Balmy Alley (pictured) will bring you face to face with illustrations of […]

Local Buena Vista band, Carin Mari & Pony Express, who recently won first place in six categories at the Colorado County Music Awards will be performing at the Orpheum on the 4th of July. Band members Carin, Colin, and Evan Lechner were named “Best Band” and “Best Vocal Group” in the Western music category. Sixteen […]

According to, donotmailus.org, a website advocating for a national registry similar to that of the National Do Not Call List:
More than 100,000,000,000 pieces of junk mail are delivered each year—that’s more than 800 pieces per household. In fact, junk mail in the United States accounts for one-third of all the mail delivered in the world.
Ummmm…. […]

The following is a description of this Ted talk entitled, Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon’s new map for war and peace:
In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity: Break it in two.
You can read Thomas […]

Local Buena Vistan, Jessie Lewis, writes in A Family Journey on the Continental Divide Trail:
Have you ever done something that you thought was way out of your range of capability both physically and mentally and had it change your life? Have you ever spent time completely devoted to bettering yourself as a person? […]

One of this year’s many new acts for the Collegiate Peaks Music Festival is the Afropop band, Mohammed Alidu & The Bizung Family.
The band’s leader, Mohammed Alidu was born in Ghana into a lineage of talking drum chiefs known as the Bizung family. The talking drum, pictured at left, is a traditional West African drum […]

This week Buena Vista will be one of six host communities to this year’s Denver Post Ride the Rockies Tour. The 2000 cyclists participating in this year’s 435 mile route will begin in Durango and then continue through Cortez, Telluride, Montrose, Crested Butte, Buena Vista, and will end in Breckenridge. This annual event, started in […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     June 10, 2008
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Sangre De Cristo Electric Association, Inc.
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Operation Round Up® Helping Our Community
The Operation Round Up® board went to work again at their May board meeting. They were able to help the Alliance Against […]

Those of you who have recently taken a stroll down the Buena Vista River Park trail may have noticed a new art installment just above the bottom river feature. Dustin Huron Urban posted an article on the South Main website featuring the new Outdoor Living Room and its creator, Kris Selby. He writes:
Complete with a […]

Or, better yet, must we choose?
There is a debate going on in Washington right now to answer whether or not America is prepared to start putting a price tag on the cost of pollution. Early this week, the Climate Security Act of 2008 was introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Sen. Joe Lieberman, independent-Conn., […]