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A KOTO newscast, from 12/13/1990 To 12/31/1990, featuring Jon Kovash, Mavis Bennett, and Deb Laity. Here are the headlines:
12/13/1990: County and Telco work toward compromise on Mountain Village approvals. There's help available for winter heating bills. Local churches offer ways to get in the holiday spirit. We've got today's weather and today's news briefs.
12/14/1990: A man dies on Main Street last night. Telluride woes exposed on national TV....
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KOTO Radio newscasts from Jon Kovash, in Telluride, Colorado:
1/29/1991:
In the headlines, we've got tips from experts, how to scrape ice, how to walk on ice, and what to wear on the Ice County talk. San Miguel County logs on to a state computer network. Telluride Institute's new director starts a new study group and we have today's weather report.
1/30/1991:
In the headlines, the school board looks for more money to keep up with growth.
The...
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A KOTO radio show, in Telluride, Colorado. Dates of the tracks vary, and most tracks were approximately 1983 or 1984. This is part I of public commentaries and opinions. Total length is about 1 hour 15 minutes. Tracks include:
1. Dance registration with Jeri McAndrews.
2. Food Coop report with Mary Cal Hollis.
3. Linda Miller on the upcoming election.
4. Joe Crain: clean-up Telluride.
5. Mike Farrell on the San Juan race to raise funds for skiers.
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A KOTO newscast, from 08/27/1991 To 09/06/1991, featuring Jon Kovash, Geoff Hanson and Lynn Heinisch. Here are the headlines:
8/27/1991: Telluride Council reluctantly puts festival petitions to voters. Telluride Conoco shuts down gas sales after tank leaks discovered. TCRA board will discuss whether to release booking information. Three new festivals apply for dates on 92 calendar, and we have today's weather report.
8/27/1991: TCRA board decides...
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Lewis and Fannie Phillips talk about settling and growing up in Yampa, Colorado in early twentieth century.
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A KOTO newscast, from 3/11/1991 To 3/22/1991, featuring Jon Kovash and Dominic Cross. Here are the headlines:
3/11/1991: The state takes the Idarado case to the US Supreme Court. Questions remain on how curbside recycling will work. Should employers be allowed to control affordable housing units? THA says No. The town takes up ethics and conflict of interest issues. We've got today's weather report and a personal commentary.
3/12/1991: Two Telluride...
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A KOTO newscast, from 06/19/1991 To 06/26/1991, featuring Jon Kovash, Geoff Hanson and Lynn Heinisch. Here are the headlines:
06/19/1991: Oil spill at Telluride Gravel pit called No Big Deal. Fannie Mae wants another rewrite of county deed restrictions. The new transmitter is here, the New Signal next month. The Bluegrass Academy has an expanded program this year. Educators agree local schools face typical problems. We'll go on a tour of Town Park....
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Daryl and Jill Hansen are interviewed by Tara Grillo and Elise McGill about the history of the Royal Hotel, Yampa, CO.
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Dorothy Tindall talks about the early days of Whitewater, Colorado as a rail center for cattle and stock. She speaks about the administrative organization of schools prior to the consolidation of Mesa County School District 51, her development of Mesa County’s first school hot lunch program at the Star School, games kids played at recess, about her work educating the children of migrant laborers who lived in La Colonia, and her role in the development...
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The Routt County Climate Action Collaborative provides an implementation framework for the Routt County Climate Action Plan. Local government partners (towns of Yampa, Oak Creek and Hayden, the city of Steamboat Springs, and Routt County) have jointly developed and adopted the Routt County Climate Action Plan (CAP) in support of sustainability efforts which seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in accordance with sustainability goals, the...
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A KOTO radio show, from Telluride, Colorado, called Environmentally Speaking. Dated July 5, 1989, Brian Peters interviews Jack Pera, a long-time Telluride local resident, photographer, environmentalist, and the president of the Sheep Mountain Alliance, about regional environmental issues. The Barlow creek area (outside of Rico, Colorado) and the sale of timber is discussed. Also mentioned are the Forest Service's plans for Gunnison, Grand Mesa, and...
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Wayne Aspinall describes his boyhood in Palisade, Colorado, his education at Mt. Lincoln School and the University of Denver, and his career as a schoolteacher, fruit farmer, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Dick Lloyd talks about cattle ranching in Western Colorado both before and after the Taylor Grazing Act, about moving cattle around to different grazing areas in Colorado, and about shipping them to Denver by rail via the De Beque Stockyard. He speaks about training horses and using horses to herd cattle. Bertha Lloyd discusses her courtship with Dick, their chivaree and their marriage. The two of them describe homesteading in a log cabin on the Grand...
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Rufus Hirons talks about his education in Grand Junction schools, and about teachers and school district employees (including his father, Walter Hirons). He also touches on the Fruita to Grand Junction Interurban line, sheep ranching with his grandfather, and local Italian Americans. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical...
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In this recording, Alta Nolan reads the memoirs of Cordelia Files. Files talks about the history of her parents and maternal grandparents who homesteaded in the Fruita, Colorado area in the 1890’s. She describes the fruit growing operation on the homestead. She recounts seeing the Ute people and Chipeta when they came in the fall to dry fruit from the orchard. She remembers early Fruita, with its dirt streets and plank sidewalks. She speaks about...
36) Emily Hunter
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Homemaker on the Hunter Ranch, which she settled with her husband, James "J.B." Baker Hunter. The Hunter Ranch was on an area east of Fruita that later became known as the Hunter District.
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He moved with his family from Florida to land east of Fruita in [1881?], where they established the Hunter Ranch. The area comprising the Hunter Ranch later became known as the Hunter District. He and his grandson developed a vein of coal near Mt. Garfield that he could see from his home on the Hunter Ranch. The mine that he developed was called the Hunter Mine.
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The Mesa County Valley School District 51 was formed on November 27, 1950 from sixteen smaller school districts in Mesa County. These smaller districts, in turn, had formed as the result of prior consolidations. With the exception of De Beque and Plateau Valley, which formed their own school districts, every geographical area in the county became part of District 51. The District elected its first school board and appointed its first superintendent,...
