Images from the May 17-19 state track and field meet at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood:

Day 1 photos

Day 2 photos

Day 3 photos

'Stoners' are less of a danger than texting on the road
I was glad to see the marijuana DUI standard go down in the state Senate, only because a drug is a drug and we already have (as pointed out in the Post Independent article

After a parade down Grand Avenue led by the Glenwood Springs Police Department, the self-funded Glenwood Springs High School boys swim team was off to Thornton for the Friday-Saturday 4A boys swim and dive state championships.
Friday

I am a transplant. I was not born in Colorado, or even raised here for that matter. That's not saying I don't wish I could call myself a native.
It has a certain ring to it.
For all of us who live in Colorado and were no

Boat-Landry wedding
Jessica Boat and PJ Landry were married June 11, 2011, at Ten Mile Station in Breckenridge. The Rev. Roy Altman performed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Steve and Diane Boat of Glenwood Springs and atte

Rifle assistant girls golf coach Kenda Spaulding was beaming with Western Slope pride as the top finishers took their spots on the podium at the conclusion of the 4A state tournament in Greeley.
Finishing in the top seven were a pair

GSHS football spring practice scheduled for June 8
Glenwood Springs High School is hosting spring football practice on Friday, June 8, from approximately 4-6 p.m. The practice will not be held June 1 as previously reported.
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Memorial service with full military honors will be held on May 25, 2011, at 1 p.m. at The Veterans Memorial Park in Rifle, across from Wamsley Elementary. A luncheon will be held immediately afterwards at the Batson home.
A memorial

"The wind is blowing in the direction you want to go. The sun is warm on your face, the birds are singing your favorite song. Today is a good day to take a chance."
We love and miss you forever and always. Tinker & Lessie

Editor's note: The Garfield County Sheriff's Department reports the following incidents and arrests. Summonses or arrests merely indicate an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless found guilty in court.

Former Garfield County manager Ed Green, who was dismissed by the county commissioners in January, has been named as the new village manager for North Palm Beach, Fla.
Green, who has lived in Rifle during his 14 years in Garfield Cou

Firefighters responded to a fire on private land on Silt Mesa Tuesday afternoon. By Tuesday night the fire was estimated to be about 1 acre, according to David Boyd, BLM Public Information Officer.
Though there are structures in the

A "simple spark" from a metal-cutting operation led to a 2.5-acre brush fire Tuesday afternoon a short distance upvalley from the Aspen-Basalt Mobile Home Park off East Willits Lane, according to Chief Scott Thompson, of t

CARBONDALE, Colorado - The town of Carbondale is expected to soon receive a grant from Great Outdoors Colorado, known as GOCO, to build a community garden at the south end of the town-owned Third Street Center property.
The $45

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The recent dismissal of a Garfield County sheriff's detective may figure in a case against Parachute resident Dennis Salmonsen, who is accused of distributing child pornography.
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Tuesday's front page photo
The smooth green snake is not a garter snake, as stated in Tuesday's cutline.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado says the Garfield County Sheriff's Department is violating state law by immediately forwarding the names of immigrants arrested in domestic violen

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - A group that's hoping to put an open space tax question on the November ballot in Garfield County will begin polling next week to gauge voter support for such a measure.
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