Two Fort Morgan High School seniors are headed to Colorado Boys State. The 62nd annual legislative learning tool is at Colorado State University at Pueblo and Conner Gerken and Kade Tibbetts will be a part of it. For them to be invited to Colorado Boys State, boys have to be heading into their senior year in high school, be in the top three percent of their class, and write a letter of application explaining why they want to attend Boys' State. There are expected to be about 175 at Boys' State this year.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Morales Gets No Bond Reduction
Twenty-five year old Jason Isaac Morales is the suspect in three different cases and faces a total of twelve counts. He was in a Logan County courtroom this week. Morales' public defender asked that his total bond, for all three cases be reduced. Damon Brunee said since Morales has been in Sterling all his life and has family here, he's not likely to run. Prosecutors said they didn't want Morales' bond reduced because he's tried to avoid facing charges and is in fact a danger to the public. The judge denied bond reduction and set another hearing for July.
RE-1 Valley Board Gives DSHS a Transitio Year
The RE-1 Valley School Board heard this week from students -- not parents -- and school staff of Darrell Smith High School that they don't want the school closed or consolidated with Sterling High School. The board has been talking about cutting the budget, and both of those have been discussed as possibilities to do so. They've decided that next year will be a transition year for the school in which the board will decide what to do. Many who attended the meeting on Monday said the smaller school means students can better achieve and that the non-traditional school draws students not only from RE-1, but from other areas.
Small Intruder Causes Big Commotion
(Centennial, CO) -- A Centennial woman who is the eyes and ears of her neighborhood is startled over a small intruder. Janice Koch tells KUSA-TV she recently heard a crash and thought someone was trying to break into her home. She saw a torn window screen and encountered a squirrel. The Colorado Division of Wildlife recommends if squirrels get into homes to block off the room they're in and open a window or door until they leave.
Bracking Bracelet
(Arvada, CO) -- The maker of a tracking bracelet a missing Arvada girl wore is claiming the device was working before her death. The ten-year-old autistic Kristina Vlassenko was discovered dead in a trench filled with water at a construction site last week. She was wearing a Care Trak bracelet that releases a constant radio signal when she vanished. The device's manufacturer tells the "Denver Post" something in the muddy water interfered with the signal.
Tracking Device Manufacturer Says Bracelet Was Working On Girl
(Arvada, CO) -- The maker of a tracking bracelet a missing Arvada girl wore is claiming the device was working before her death. The ten-year-old autistic Kristina Vlassenko was discovered dead in a trench filled with water at a construction site last week. She was wearing a Care Trak bracelet that releases a constant radio signal when she vanished. The device's manufacturer tells the "Denver Post" something in the muddy water interfered with the signal.
Rare flower reconsidered for federal protection
A federal judge in Colorado has upheld a 2008 challenge from conservation groups seeking to overturn a federal decision that denied protection to a wildflower found only in the oil shale outcroppings of northeast Utah and northwest Colorado.
Attorneys for environmental groups said Thursday that Senior judge Walker Miller issued a decision saying that not listing Graham's penstemon on the endangered species list was "arbitrary and capricious."
Walker directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider.
Earthjustice attorney Meg Parish says environmentalists believe it was a political decision to not protect the flower because it grows in areas of oil and gas development. Environmentalists say there are only 6,000 of the plants, a member of the snapdragon family with pale lavender flowers.
Federal officials say they will issue a new rule on the listing when funding permits.
Attorneys for environmental groups said Thursday that Senior judge Walker Miller issued a decision saying that not listing Graham's penstemon on the endangered species list was "arbitrary and capricious."
Walker directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider.
Earthjustice attorney Meg Parish says environmentalists believe it was a political decision to not protect the flower because it grows in areas of oil and gas development. Environmentalists say there are only 6,000 of the plants, a member of the snapdragon family with pale lavender flowers.
Federal officials say they will issue a new rule on the listing when funding permits.
Wildlife panel backs plans for water projects
The Colorado Wildlife Commission has unanimously endorsed plans to reduce the effects of two proposed water projects on wildlife
The commissioners voted during a meeting Thursday in Grand Junction for proposals by Denver Water and the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
Denver Water wants to enlarge Gross Reservoir in Boulder County to prepare for another drought and boost water supplies. The northern Colorado water district wants to divert additional water from the Colorado River to a reservoir proposed west of Loveland.
Plans for minimizing the effects on wildlife include ways to maintain cool water temperatures and minimum water flows, restoring fish habitat and increasing flows during drought to maintain fish spawning areas.
Denver Water planning director Dave Little says the goal is to improve the rivers.
The commissioners voted during a meeting Thursday in Grand Junction for proposals by Denver Water and the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
Denver Water wants to enlarge Gross Reservoir in Boulder County to prepare for another drought and boost water supplies. The northern Colorado water district wants to divert additional water from the Colorado River to a reservoir proposed west of Loveland.
Plans for minimizing the effects on wildlife include ways to maintain cool water temperatures and minimum water flows, restoring fish habitat and increasing flows during drought to maintain fish spawning areas.
Denver Water planning director Dave Little says the goal is to improve the rivers.
Hickenlooper signs school funding bill
DENVER (AP) — Gov. John Hickenlooper signed proposals to allocate more money to Colorado schools than what lawmakers originally thought possible.
The bill signed Thursday is a bipartisan compromise restoring $22.5 million to schools next year by transferring surplus money from the state's education fund, a sort of savings account funded by income taxes. Another $67.5 million would be safeguarded to prevent future cuts to the neediest schools.
Lawmakers say the additional funding is possible because of better-than-expected tax revenues.
The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Tom Massey and Democratic Sen. Bob Bacon is the annual school finance act.
Hickenlooper initially proposed cutting education funding by $332 million next year because of a budget shortfall.
Lawmakers brought the figure down to $250 million before the additions by the school finance act, which reduced the cut further.
The bill signed Thursday is a bipartisan compromise restoring $22.5 million to schools next year by transferring surplus money from the state's education fund, a sort of savings account funded by income taxes. Another $67.5 million would be safeguarded to prevent future cuts to the neediest schools.
Lawmakers say the additional funding is possible because of better-than-expected tax revenues.
The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Tom Massey and Democratic Sen. Bob Bacon is the annual school finance act.
Hickenlooper initially proposed cutting education funding by $332 million next year because of a budget shortfall.
Lawmakers brought the figure down to $250 million before the additions by the school finance act, which reduced the cut further.
Preparations continue for Colorado flooding
A PORTE, Colo. (AP) — People in northern Colorado are filling sandbags and closing flooded city streets and bike trails as the Cache la Poudre (kash-luh-POO'-der) River rises due to a surge of melting snow.
The river spilled over its banks in Greeley and washed over a city street Thursday, although city officials told the Greeley Tribune that flows had eased slightly from Wednesday.
Cooler temperatures in the mountains have slowed the snowmelt that has raised river levels. The Summit Daily News reports that has prompted Denver Water to reduce releases from Dillon Reservoir.
But the National Weather Service says the Eagle River in western Colorado is expected to stay near flood stage. Record snowpack in Colorado's mountains, particularly the central and northern mountains, is causing flooding as it melts into rivers and streams.
The river spilled over its banks in Greeley and washed over a city street Thursday, although city officials told the Greeley Tribune that flows had eased slightly from Wednesday.
Cooler temperatures in the mountains have slowed the snowmelt that has raised river levels. The Summit Daily News reports that has prompted Denver Water to reduce releases from Dillon Reservoir.
But the National Weather Service says the Eagle River in western Colorado is expected to stay near flood stage. Record snowpack in Colorado's mountains, particularly the central and northern mountains, is causing flooding as it melts into rivers and streams.
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