Alan Robinson, GARNA representative to the Chaffee County Heritage Board, writes:
The Chaffee County Heritage Area Advisory Board is just completing a 2-year effort to develop a Heritage Area Management Plan, and is inviting the public to review the full document. This Plan, which has been developed on a parallel track with the County’s Roundtable [...]

Folks, we’ve only got 2 weeks left til Election Day.  If you’re anything like me, between the lackluster debates, more TV ads than any campaign in history, and non-stop-People-magazine-politics, I think I’m just about full.  However, the allure of the possibility real change, of having your voice heard and making a difference for your family, [...]

Having spent all day two Saturdays ago at the Orpheum Theatre in Buena Vista attending the Sustainability Showcase and Celebration event, it really drove home once again to me the importance of community involvement and idea interchange. In that spirit, I’d like to point the attention of our CBV readers today over to the Salida [...]

A ChannelBV reader writes:
“Dear fellow lovers of mountain living and planning aficionados, I’m far from complacent but this gave even me a jolt. Here’s a link to a Brookings report entitled “Mountain Megas.” I recommend scanning and maybe bookmarking the complete report. If nothing else, see the chart on page five of the [...]

I’ve been doing some thinking recently about what it takes to make a community, be it a church group, a business, a town or a nation, function and prosper. The concept that keeps coming to mind is the necessity for everyone involved in the community to have as much information from as many sources [...]

One of the larger issues facing our area today is the influx of people. Buena Vista is on the map, and people want what we have. Fresh air, clean water, beautiful scenery, outdoor lifestyle, friendly community, no traffic…the list goes on. The state demographer warned of the incoming tide of people from all over the [...]

In response to an announcement by the US Forest Service in mid January, regional and national media have been reporting of a potentially catastrophic scenario that may play out in Colorado forests over the next three to five years. It is said that in that time, the current mountain pine beetle epidemic, which began in [...]

Governor Ritter will meet with citizens at 4:15 PM, Friday, April 11 at the Salida Middle School to discuss rural educational issues and future challenges. Superintendents of Cotopaxi, Buena Vista and Salida will discuss local issues with the governor and time will be available for questions and answers. The public is welcome and encouraged to [...]

Yesterday at the Chaffee County courthouse focus groups who have worked over the past year to reshape the county zoning plan met and watched as Marjo Curgus of the Sonoran Institute and her team presented a “stab in the dark” of a plan that was based on the information gathered from previous meetings. It provided [...]