• BUSINESS OPERATIONS – December 2023 ARPA Board Adopts 2024 Budget. At its December meeting the ARPA Board of Directors approved its operating budget for 2024 in the amount of $25,428,886. Rates will remain unchanged and stable for the 2024 budget which includes: ARPA Board Engages in Strategic Planning-Future Rate Strategy. Beginning in 2025, ARPA will…


  • We’ve all probably used one password to secure multiple, maybe even all, of our digital accounts. But that’s not safe, and it becomes even more unsafe as time goes on. If your one password gets stolen because of a breach, it becomes a skeleton key for your whole cyber life. This compromised password can be…


  • Friday, July 21, 9:30-10:30a.m. Longhorn Steakhouse Café, 400 Main Street, Springfield For questions, please contact Diana Noyes at Diana.Noyes@coag.gov This Friday, please join Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser for a conversation about priorities and topics impacting families and communities in Southeastern Colorado. Attorney General, along with members of his community engagement team, hope to hear…


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  • I am often amazed by the historical connections to Baca County which have bubbled to the surface because of our digital world.  When I discover a single name on a news clipping I have learned it isn’t always just a name.  A single name can lead us down a path to a better understanding of …


  • Recently the Herald had the opportunity to visit the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado and talk with its founder and executive director, Pat Craig. He showed us some of their habitats, talked about the animals they have living there, and explained how and why they do what they do. Some of the Sanctuary’s big…


  •     As we come upon the Thanksgiving holiday, and as with everything in the society we are livin’ in, I can hear the distant rumble of controversy. Now I’m not wantin’ to get in the middle of this controversy.  It’s your choice whether you celebrate or not. I will say, we here at Three Feathers choose to…


  • In German, a Tannenbaum is a fir tree that is decorated every Christmas season to help celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah to the Jews and Gentiles.   It is also the title of a song translated into English:  “O Christmas tree”.  It was published in 1824 by Ernst Anschutz.  He was…