Hi ChannelBV Readers! It’s Alex, John and Allison, your friendly CBV founders. We wanted to take a moment to thank you for all of your support. We have received so much good feedback and encouragement around this project, we really feel that our work is having an impact and that people appreciate what [...]

Since ChannelBV launched this February, we (the writers) have striven to speak with a neutral, objective voice. We continue to stand by this editorial policy in the hopes that the people who do feel strongly about an issue one way or another will feel comfortable stepping forward in the comments or the forums to [...]

Alex T writes: “My teaching and traveling this past month has kept me away from the end of summer in BV, but I’ve been excited to stay in touch with local and regional-ness electronically from across the interwebs.  I’ve gathered a few stories from BV and Colorado that you might enjoy:
- Buena Vista bids a [...]

CBV reader, Conrad N., submitted the link to this New Yorker article. Give it some time as it is eight pages or so. But it is written descriptively as a journey of unfolding knowledge. The most exciting bits to me are the stats about the Danish island Samsø. What started as a renewable energy contest [...]

OK, so not really. But why are we so addicted to our clothes dryers?
According to ConsumerEnergy.org, “A dryer is typically the second-biggest electricity-using appliance after the refrigerator, costing about $85 to operate annually. Over its expected lifetime of 18 years, the average clothes dryer will cost you approximately $1,530 to operate.”
Especially in a very dry [...]

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 [...]

Spring has arrived in full force. The Lilacs are blooming, the snow is melting and the Caddis Fly are hatching in record numbers on the Arkansas River! ESPN covered the hatch a couple years back,
“They come off the river like smoke,” said Bill Edrington, owner of Royal Gorge Anglers
Fishermen are advised to [...]

Warm weather means melting snow (finally) means big flows on the Arkansas River means big tricks in the Buena Vista River Park means kayaking pros want to check it out.
“The first annual Buena Vista Pro Rodeo will be held on May 24, 2008 on the new and improved Buena Vista River Park in Buena [...]

Bike events abound as we see the second day of Bike to Work Week, enter the second week of National Bike Month and prepare for June, Colorado’s official bike month. Buena Vista citizens are all geared up and rolling into town.
Brian S. writes:
“This annual event is promoted by the League of American Bicyclists, which has [...]

In 2006, farmers around the country noticed a significant decline in their honey bee populations.
“Thirty years ago, there were nearly 4 million bee colonies in the U.S. Today, fewer than 2.5 million remain, thanks to a reddish-brown parasite so tiny it could stand on the head of a pin, and to a malady so new [...]