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A KOTO newscast, from 09/09/1994 To 09/22/1994, featuring Jon Kovash and Eric Whitney. Here are the headlines:
09/09/1994: The county logging task force sets goals and schedules field trips. Faraway plans to expand on Wilson Mesa. The film festival leaves KOTO awash in beer. Those stories and today's mountain weather forecast.
09/12/1994: The council will discuss campers' housing and water conservation, LP denies rumors of a plant closing, Keesler...
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A KOTO newscast, from 8/16/1996 To 8/30/1996, featuring Jon Kovash, Matthew Lewis, and Becca Thorson. Here are the headlines:
8/16/1996: We have a report on Chamber Music's finale weekend. We've got the winners of the Duck Race. We've got a mountain weather report.
8/19/1996: Curtis Wayne Byrne gets 11 years for the 1994 sexual assault. Lightning sparks another round of fires. Film Fest offers a free movie screening. We have a mountain weather report...
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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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Morgan Goss discusses his time as a cowboy in Mesa County during the early 1900’s. 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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A KOTO Radio news archive recording. Recorded in 1980. Total recording length is about an hour and 26 minutes. Please see the transcript to jump between tracks.
1. Camp Bird mine is cited for several safety violations: January 1980.
2. Mary Cal Hollis environmental news: Formaldehyde foam installation installed in Telluride homes and warnings that cancer experts of various agencies should ban it. In addition: Utilities electrical demand forecast...
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Sisters Dorothy (Raber) Beard and Marjorie (Raber) Likes talk about the history of their family in Fruita, Colorado. They speak about Will Minor, the goat herder and self-educated photographer, author, and amateur lepidopterist who discovered the butterfly Papilio Indra Minori on the Colorado National Monument. They discuss homesteads that the Beard family owned in the canyons that comprise the current day McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area....
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Sisters Anna McGinley and Mae (McGinley) Plunkett discuss the pioneering history of their families in Fruita during the late Nineteenth century and early Twentieth century. 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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Olive Jean (Mann) Gordon discusses the early buildings, businesses and people of Grand Junction, Colorado. 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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Lee (who remains anonymous) talks about leaving his abusive grandmother at 14, being on the lam with his father, a criminal, and then running away after being adopted by a nice Mormon family. He describes his years of alcoholism, petty crime and jail time, both in and out of the armed forces. He then describes the people and organizations that helped him get clean and sober, including Alcoholics Anonymous of Grand Junction and the Ft. Logan Mental...
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Jean Urruty discusses his time in Mesa County, the history of Basque people in the Western United States, and Basque culture. 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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Alfred W. Bigum talks about his career as a lumberyard manager, and about the history of lumberyards in Montrose and Grand Junction, Colorado. He also discusses his experience as an amateur architect. 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 Society.
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Frank Chiaro describes his life as the child of Italian immigrants, farm life in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, and his various jobs, including his work as a boilermaker for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He also talks about the second incarnation of his railroading career as a clerk, about mail cars and mail clerks, about the Durham Stockyards and the many livestock trains departing Grand Junction, and about water towers for steam...
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Jean Page talks about the engineering career of her father, John Page, including his role as the office engineer on the Hoover Dam project, his design of several other dams in the West, and his appointment as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation in 1937. She also discusses his life as an engineer and fruit farmer in Mesa County, his civic involvement in the area, and her childhood there. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral...
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Carl Ramunno talks about his time in the Army, and how he ended up in Steamboat Springs coaching high school wrestling and football.
