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  • Area pine trees are now showing signs of fall. The pines lose their needles within the tree. The needles on the exterior part of the branch remains green while the innermost needles begin to brown and will eventually drop to the ground. This is why the mountains can be so flammable. The dried needles create…


  •         ‘Ole Cheryl and I were watchin’ a documentary on sheep and sheep dogs the other night. Now I was more interested in the dogs than the sheep but I have found there’s lessons to be learned from watchin’ all critters, even sheep. After the dogs had penned the sheep and they…


  • Boston wasn’t quite the first in the east end as this part of Las Animas county as it was thencalled. Butte City was started in June 1886; we believe that less than half a dozen houses were builtthere when it was abandoned and the houses moved over to Minneapolis, started a few miles west of…


  • Towns Artesia Artesia was founded in 1914 but lasted only a year. The name of the town was changed to Blaine. That was long enough for a newspaper to be born: Artesia Call spring 1914-1915, R.O. Casady and C. Lyle Knox, founders. Knox was formerly with the Springfield Herald. The Artesia Call name was kept…