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Sydney Nelson catches a fish.


Sydney Nelson, 11,  of Colorado Springs runs along the bank of Highline Lake after catching her first trout all by herself. She wanted to show her mom the catch. Her family was in the Grand Valley to compete in the Hits triathlon series at the park. Joe, her younger brother, also caught a trout.

TABOR ruling may be Monday

Mesa County commissioners could decide Monday to change course, away from a 2007 decision in which the county began excluding sales tax revenue from its collection limitation calculations mandated by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. If they do, they’ll be directing the county back into the mainstream, an analysis shows. It seems Mesa County is the only county in the state to exclude its sales tax revenues without having first gone to voters for approval.

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Lee Gagne, a 71-year-old blacksmith volunteer at Cross Orchards Historic Site, can’t bring himself to retire from blacksmithing just yet.

Lee Gagne can’t bring himself to retire from blacksmithing just yet. Because he wants to keep the art of blacksmithing alive. When Gagne, 71, was four years old, he began blacksmithing in Massachusetts. He said that his whole family was involved with it. “We would work on farms and … more


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