Wet Mountain Tribune

10/09/2025

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10/08/2025

We still cannot believe what excellent condition these Ranching Legacy editions from 1995 are! Purchase a piece of Valley history (hint: great holiday gift)

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10/08/2025

CDOT finishes Hardscrabble rockslide cleanup nine months after January closure

On Monday, September 29, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) completed the cleanup of the massive rockslide at McKenzie Junction that was triggered in January on Highway 96 in the Wet Mountains. After the initial cleanup, which required hundreds of semitruck loads to complete, CDOT w

09/30/2025

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09/30/2025

Looking for home repairs? How about pest control, painting, excavation or fire mitigation? Maybe it's questions about buying or selling real estate? This free guide has the local businesses that can help solve your problems!

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09/29/2025

Nothing better than great coffee at Peregrine Coffee. You can always order their amazing bagged coffee beans online; plus they ship!

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09/26/2025

The local population widely assumed that the incident had been an ambush by Clark against his neighbors... but in reality it had been a verbal confrontation turned into a gunfight partially escalated by the Sheriff's department.

A recap of what is currently publicly known about the November 2023 killings and where the case stands On November 20, 2023, the regional population was transfixed with the news that three community members had been shot and killed, and another severely wounded, near the Custer/Fremont County bor

09/25/2025

Walling’s approach to the subject—the founders’ debates about the formation of the Constitution—is “Socratic,” that is, the eliciting of questions provoked by, and rooted in, the readings drawn from the first volume of documents anthologized by the author/editors of the 1989 five volume series, The Founders’ Constitution. “Each week we’ll look into three or four of the founders’ debates that are most likely to inspire conversation. They didn’t always agree, and raised some very interesting questions.” As we chatted, Walling illustrated the latter with the example of the Founders’ querying by what right one generation had to bind future generations. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had differing outlooks on this, and to follow their discussion in the present day is, and will be for seminar participants, a muscular engagement with critical thinking.

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Honing one’s knowledge of the U.S. Constitution is practically a citizen’s obligation, but at the very least, an intriguing venture into grasping how the founding document came to be. Adult learners of any age, as well as public or home school students in grades 9 to 12, now have an opportunity ...