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  • It’s hard to believe it is already time to begin planning those spring tree planting projects!  Seedling Tree Order forms are available at the Baca County Extension Office until March 4th.  By networking with the Colorado State Forest Service, Baca County residents, as well as our surrounding neighbors, are able to order from over 50 native…


  • Walsh Schools would like to thank school board members Todd Randolph and James Dubois for their 20+ years of combined service.  Under their leadership, Walsh Schools has hired numerous quality administrators, teachers, and staff members. Under their tenure, both the elementary and high school were named John Irwin-Schools of Excellence, Colorado’s highest school of excellence…


  •         As COVID has ravaged our country for the last 2 years veterans have continued serving in the US and around the world. We have also been honored by our communities. Baca County has been exemplary in doing so. This year Walsh United Methodist Church is doing their annual turkey dinner and auction on…


  •     I was sittin’ in my recliner the other night readin’ the national news. I  came across headlines that read, “The race is on to find another inhabitable planet as the earth looses oxygen.” I told ‘Ole Cheryl to get packed, we want to be on the first bus. Then I read this wasn’t going to happen…


  • 10/18/2021      17:07 The officer on duty received a traffic complaint from an anonymous caller.      22:48 An officer responded to the 200 block of East 2nd Ave. for an alarm. 10/19/2021      08:08 The officer on duty conducted a motorist assist in the 300 block of Main Street.      14:07 The officer on duty conducted a welfare check in the 300 block of…


  • November 11th is Veterans Day.  I have known and do know many veterans and love hearing their stories…if I can get them to talk. The past has taught me that many veterans don’t talk much about their military experiences.  I have concluded it is usually for one of two reasons.  Either they don’t want to relive those experiences…


  •      In 1991 an extreme cold front moved through the plains killing elm trees in southeast Colorado, western Kansas, New Mexico and into the panhandle of Texas/Oklahoma. The devastating freeze practically annihilated the Elm. Through the efforts of the Colorado State Forest Service, Springfield and area towns were able to replant trees in their…


  • 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…


  • It certainly wasn’t the 74,384 broomcorn acres Baca County produced in 1949, but Kirk Guder’s 2021 garden brought back a bit of the amazing broomcorn history of Baca  Sometimes it is just fun when you get a note on some of what we have pulled together. Check this comment from BacaCountyHistory dot com. “My family…


  •         ‘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…


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