News

Will Beezley was an orchardist and farmer who lived up Steven’s Gulch just outside of Paonia. In the 1930s, 40s and 50s, he kept a daily log of his tasks, along with the weather and conditions. The brief entries offer a glimpse of his work on the land and his chase with water. The journals are now in the hands of Paonia resident Amber Kleinman, who has been selecting and posting entries for ISeeChange at thealmanac.org. She was interviewed by KVNF’s Marty Durlin, who asked her first about the process of transcribing the journals.

Headlines:

Rock slide closes McClure Pass at Paonia Reservoir

News from the Legislature as the session winds down:

• Elections bill passes, heads to Governor Hickenlooper
• Medicaid Expansion passes both Houses  
• Gray water bill passes

Other News:

• Local farmer Jere Lowe on how marijuana should be regulated
• ISeeChange: Carrots, tulips, cherries, kestrals, the First Red Flag Warning and other signs of spring
  

Aired Sunday, May 5th, 2013 Watching the congregation of birds in the back yard, I celebrate these creatures as talismans, blessings and messengers.

Headlines:

• Renewable Energy bills for rural electrical associations awaits governor’s signature
• Small plane crash-lands on Highway 50 in North Delta
• Williams cited for leak by state
• NASA and CU invite you to send your name to Mars (find web link below)
• Migratory Bird Day is May 11 (find web link below)
• Legislature to end on a High Note
  

Headlines:

• Chicken Farm Redux: Delta County Commissioners hear more evidence in Western Slope Layers case
• Uranium mines get license from state
• Chesnik pleads guilty to $400,000 theft from Town of Paonia
• Crawford resident Craig Childs wins Orion Book Award
• Cockers choose Teacher of the Year in North Fork

Headlines:

• Marijuana tax becomes a sticking point in the Legislature
• Billionaire land swap proposal  – but it’s not from Bill Koch
• No charges for Delta cops accused of excessive force
• High Country News’ Emily Guerin on training ranchers to be firefighters
  

Headlines:

• Governor signs ASSET bill into law
• Battlement Mesa meeting addresses Parachute Creek Leak
• New EPA figures say emissions control has reduced the impact of natural gas industry on climate change
• Dominguez-Escalante conservation area council needs members
• Jim Elder announces for DMEA District 4
• Telluride residents say no to uranium mines at BLM meeting
  

Headlines:

• Parachute Creek hydrocarbon leak containment efforts continue
• Avalanche Center report on Loveland slide suggests human error
• iSeeChange: What IS a normal spring?