Wet Mountain Tribune

01/10/2025

Bad predictions from 1996 that still haunt and cost Custer County residents

The legendary baseball coach Yogi Berra once said, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future,” and what is true in baseball seems to hold outside of the diamond …

01/09/2025

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01/08/2025

“It needs to end” says Part-time resident and Electoral College Elector

While proud of the position, this elector believes the Electoral College system should end Nita Lynch is one of the frequent faces around Westcliffe throughout the year, but during presidential ele…

01/08/2025

Hanme Clark, who is accused of ambushing and killing three people, enters a not-guilty plea; trial to be set in June

Hanme Clark’s attorney entered a “not guilty” plea on Tuesday, January 7, during an arraignment hearing at the Custer County Court House. Clark is accused of ambushing and murdering three people an…

01/06/2025

The scale of the effort to reopen Highway 96 was massive. 34 million pounds of rock hauled by dozens of semi-trucks.

01/06/2025

Automated ticketing started by Custer County Sheriff on Copper Gulch, Oak Creek Grade, and Rosita Road

With a new year comes new laws, and for local motorists, there are two new ways to be ticketed. For the first time, a motorist might get a speeding ticket that arrives in the mail­box, but the driv…

01/05/2025

In a last bid to save her career and her net worth, Linda Stanley appeals disbarment to the Colorado Supreme Court

What is the ethics of prosecuting the law? How are lawyers supposed to conduct themselves? How are those ethics enforced? And what does serving the interests of justice mean? Those are the question…

01/02/2025

Huge effort to reopen the Hardscrabble five days after rockslide closed Highway 96.

01/01/2025

The billion-year-old fault that caused the Hardscrabble rockslide and why fixing the problem for good won’t be easy

There was something unique about the rockslide that closed the intersection of Highway 96 and 165, known locally as Mackenzie Junction, as previously reported in the Tribune on Sunday, December 29.…

01/01/2025

CDOT has opened Mackenzie Junction for vehicles traveling from H165 to Westbound H96. Vehicles traveling east on H96 can travel south on H165 to Rye.

Highway 96 is still closed from Mackenzie Junction to Wetmore.

CDOT and Langston's will have crews working through the New Year's Holiday.

12/31/2024

Ring in the New Year at the Silver Dome Saloon and Music Hall! House of Goo will rock the Valley into 2025!

There is only one place in the Wet Mountain Valley to ring in the New Year, and that is the Silver Dome Saloon and Music Hall. Local band “House of Goo” will take the stage at 8 p.m. an…

12/30/2024

How’s the Hardscrabble? Well, it is closed indefinitely due to massive landslide

Courtesy video by Sierra Wright Freezing, expanding, thawing, and repeating: that is what the water from the heavy fall rain and snow has been doing along the Hardscrabble deep inside the tiny and …

12/29/2024

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12/28/2024

House passes bill that might finally give Silver Cliff back its ZIP code

On December 11, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (D, CD-7) announced the passage of HR 8453, a bill that would restore a unique ZIP code to the town of Silver Cliff. The bill has gone on to t…