ROBERT BRAUDIS, SHERIFF OF PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO AUGUST 2, 2006 It is the policy of the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office-whether acting independently under its statutory law enforcement powers, or in collaboration with state and federal law enforcement agencies — to protect the constitutional rights of persons under its jurisdictions in accordance with the following policies […]
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TEX’S POETRY PAGE
THE FOLLOWING IS DEDICATED TO KT. Robert Markham This poem was written for this time of year, Robert died before the next spring (1979), but he is still her with us. I would like to be here come spring if it is with you I would like to be here if it is with you […]
STALKING THE MOUNTAIN LION
BY JACOB BENEDICT DREW This is a story of three wild cats. The first Cheever I’d met before arriving in Woody Creek. My girlfriend, Jen, had named him after the writer out of respect for the man’s literary talents and because the animal shared a promiscuous nature with him that, alas, was also stifled by […]
FULL MOON
(A MOSTLY TRUE STORY) BY JAY PAYNE Before the Janss boys started Snowmass, when lots cost $1,500 and Freddie Fisher’s upside-down water spout defied gravity, I lived in the Woody Creek Trailer Park. If I rode my bicycle up the hill I could look past Hunter’s house up Little Woody Creek and see the district […]
DON’T FIGHT MOTHER NATURE
BY JANET SCHOEBERLEIN SOME SEEDING-LOOKING COUPLES WERE WAITING TO GET “SET UP.” SOMETIME BEFORE I PAID FOR A STRONG, EXPENSIVE PLANT LIGHT, I REALIZED THAT EVERYBODY ELSES THER WAS GETTING SET UP TO GROW POT IN THEIR CLOSETS. STRAIGHT, STUPID ME! AND THE PANSIES DIED. Unless you want to make extra trouble work with Mother […]
