This picture was made in the early afternoon with the Rollei IR 400 infrared film lightening the evergreen growth, darkening the sky and whitening the snow on the four peaks of Sierra Blanca, which is at the east portal on U.S. 160 to the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado.
Areas of Larimer and Weld counties are under a high wind warning until 6 p.m. Cities under the warning include Fort Collins, Hereford, Loveland, Nunn, Briggsdale, grover, Pawnee Buttes, Raymer, Stoneham, Brush, Fort Morgan, Goodrich, Wiggins, Crook, Merino, Sterling, Peetz, Akron, Cope, Last Chance, Otis, Julesburg, Ovid, Sedgwick, Amherst, Haxtun ...
Senior Spencer McCracken's strong second half couldn't quite rally the Weldon Valley boys during their 44-32 league defeat at Briggsdale on Thursday evening.
For more history, read "Then Fosston Story" section of "Three Coins: Cornish, Osgood and Fosston," by Dorothy Bolin, 1980, and "Homesteading the Dryland: A History of Northeast Weld County, Colorado," edited by Bud Wells, 1986 by Curtis Media Corp.
Nine-year-old Randy Starks was pretty excited when he got a new bull-riding rope under the tree for Christmas, especially since he knew he would get to use it just a few days later when he participated in the Mountain States Young Guns Rodeo at the Budweiser Events Center.
Two seats are open on the Aims Community College board of trustees, in director districts C and D. Both candidates - Larry Wood, district D, and Mike Freeman, district C - are uncontested and will take their positions at the board's November meeting.