It’s been a steep learning curve. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is a monster. It’s not like influenza. It’s not like the other common-cold coronaviruses. Figuring out how it infects and how it kills has been an enormous challenge. We’ve learned a lot, but there’s a long way yet[Read More…]
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Guest Column: A sheriff speaks to us all
You will want to read this article because it offers hope from the hand of a Colorado sheriff who graciously took part in a project I implemented the first two weeks of May. While watching the various news stories about people around the country opening their businesses in spite of[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Distance
“Remember to give them their distance all the time.” was the caption below the picture of a mother bear and her cubs in a recent edition of this newspaper. Those among us, who spend their daily lives up in the high country, never take the need for distance for granted.[Read More…]
Guest Column: What have we learned?
COVID-19 has provided us much new vocabulary including, recently, the phrase “coming out the other side.” Who knows when that will be or how we will know when we arrive? If we do not learn from our problems, we have missed critical opportunities to grow and become stronger. Looking ahead,[Read More…]
Guest Column: Most Americans are making travel plans
As parts of the country begin opening, travelers are looking forward to getting back on the road and in the skies. According to the most recent Longwoods International study of American travelers, half (52%) of respondents will visit friends and family domestically first when it is appropriate to travel again.[Read More…]
LOOSE ENDS: ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’
“Sorry, wrong number” is not a message one hears often these days, unless a local directory has listed someone’s else’s phone number in its place. While some of us still keep a landline, there are growing numbers who have reverted to only to a cell phone. A few years ago[Read More…]
Guest Column: It Always Takes More Time
[responsivevoice voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Listen to this”] Many years ago, I was complaining to a colleague that a project was taking more time to complete than I expected. He just laughed and said, “Kaye, it always takes more time.” That comment has stayed with me over the many years and[Read More…]
Guest Column: Celebrate the Spirit of Travel
MEEKER I The nation has celebrated travel and tourism as an economic engine during the first week of May since 1983. Typically the industry gathers to rally, introduces new products, awards front-line workers for the role they play in helping visitors make memories of a lifetime and celebrates accomplishments in[Read More…]
Guest Column: Mother’s Day during COVID-19
MEEKER I Here we go, one more thing that will be far from normal, Mother’s Day. While we are social distancing and restaurants are closed, the traditional ways of honoring our mothers are also left behind. Hosting family meals, dining out or sending fresh flowers feel like luxuries these days.[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Beans, beans and more beans!
MEEKER | This was standard fare out on the ranch or on the range, and usually included quite a few variations by using up whatever was handy in the larder. Facing our bare cupboards these days, many of us find enough fixins’ for an old Dutch oven dinner not simmered[Read More…]
Opinion: It’s dangerous to mess with Mother Nature
RBC | A famous 1970s TV commercial warned, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” In fact, it’s worse than “not nice” — it’s dangerous. Coloradans will make a momentous decision on this year’s ballot, whether to mess with Mother Nature by introducing non-native wolves to the state, without a[Read More…]
Loose Ends: A small price to pay
MEEKER | More than 100 years ago, members of this community had their own version of staying-in-place. It was called homesteading and eventually ranching. Stories passed down from the families that settled here always include the bond they felt with the people who lived the closest to them. They may[Read More…]
