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Category Archives: -December 2007
Despite storm, forecasters worried about dry weather
Weather’s capricious nature makes it a challenge to predict accurately, a case in point this month. Snow finally arrived Dec. 1, after weeks of unseasonably warm, dry days. Long-term forecasts are an inexact science, to be sure, proving perhaps that … Continue reading
Published in -December 2007
Victory for a view: Commnet opts not to put a cell tower on Bluff’s ridgeline
A 150-foot cell tower once proposed to be built on a scenic ridgeline near Bluff, Utah, apparently will have a different home. In response to widespread community objection among Bluff residents to despoiling one of the town’s most prominent geologic … Continue reading
Published in -December 2007
Monumental issues: Reaction varies to the draft plan for Canyons of the Ancients, but defining roads is a contentious point
It’s a pair of documents totaling around 900 pages, but so far the main points of dispute involving Canyons of the Ancients National Monument’s draft resource management plan boil down to two issues: • What, exactly, is a road? … Continue reading
Published in -December 2007
A life on canvas: Celebrating the art of Stanton Englehart
Montezuma-Cortez High School art teacher Sharon Englehart recalls her father, Stanton Englehart, studying art in the 1960s. “I can remember living in a Quonset hut. There was always an easel there.” Once he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees … Continue reading
Published in -December 2007, Arts & Entertainment
Imagining a life on the river
Having just moved to Colorado, I have been on the Colorado River only once. After reading “The Very Hard Way,” I will have Bert Loper on my mind the next river trip I take. I will be imagining the route … Continue reading
Published in -December 2007, Arts & Entertainment