“100% BABY ALPACA” is a presentation on a unique expedition, that a group of students were able to take to South America this winter. The Link School is an expeditionary high school located just north of Buena Vista. Comprised of thirteen students and five staff who live and work together in a close communtity. [...]

The NY Times has just published their annual ‘Year in Ideas’ Feature.  I’ve really enjoyed becoming acquainted and re-acquainted with the ideas they’ve collected here.  For instance, consider the awkwardly named but delightful concept of the  ‘Locavestor’:
“Perhaps you’ve heard of locavores: people who eat only foods that have been produced within a 100-mile radius.  Now [...]

Buena Vista farmer, David Lynch, of Cottonwood Creek Dairy was quoted in a recent article about Community Supported Agriculture in Gourmet Magazine. The article presents a good overview of CSAs and related agricultural business structures that are becoming more prolific nation wide. In addition to being an article worthy of the read, the photo that [...]

I had a conversation with a friend recently about debit cards where this topic came up.  With financial turmoil in the news quite a bit lately, I thought this would be a good topic to explore a bit because, I think that it illustrates the banking industry’s willingness to obfuscate a few simple facts to [...]

Walking around a packed town this weekend, it was great to see people recreating in their own ways. And in the midst of all the paddling and biking and hiking and eating, I really enjoyed seeing a few people tucked comfortably off to the shady side of the river walk trail, in a crazy [...]

How do you feel about the signage of our town? Are you a business owner that depends on your sign for a large part of your business? Are you concerned about the look and feel of our town to a visitor passing through? What is the historical value of signs, and how old do they [...]

As many of you probably know, Earth Day 2008 is just around the corner - just two weeks away. We at ChannelBV thought it would be interesting to invite our readers to tell the community all about what they or their businesses have done in the past year or plan to do this coming year [...]

Over at YBWhoUR, I was doing some thinking about how goods make their way across the mountains and into our homes and businesses. While contemplating alternative methods of transportation, I started thinking about our existing seemingly abandoned rail infrastructure. With new activity in the valley up at the Climax mine, there was some [...]