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Walter and Doris Green came to Pagosa Springs, Colo. in 1997 to retire. The baby boomers built a home and settled into small town life. She became president of the Pagosa Springs Arts Council. He served as president of Friends of the Performing Arts and recently dabbled in politics, running for County Commissioner. But last…

Photos (clockwise, left to right): Linda Echterhoff and her Honorable Mention ribbon next to “Seed Pod”; “Cherries Under Ice,” by Janet Collins, First Place; “Immigrant,” by Barbara Giorgio, Second Place; “Missed Fortune” by Veronica Day, Third Place; “The Passage,” by Gil Bruvel, Best of Show Pagosa Springs artist Linda Echterhoff received an honorable mention in…

Courtesy Farmington Museum“Fish Wanting to Fly,” photograph by Jeffrey Jue, Oakland, Calif., at the “Gateway to Imagination” National Juried Art Competition in Farmington. By Leanne Goebel | Special to the Herald The photographers Jim and Eileen Baumgardt are the only Durango artists in this year’s Gateway National Juried Art Competition in Farmington. The husband and…

PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. — While the Historic Preservation Board works with the town council to revise the Pagosa Springs Municipal Code, the board feels it is necessary to protect sites, building and other features that are of sufficient age to be designated as historic landmarks through the adoption of a temporary suspension of the demolition…

By Leanne Goebel Journal Correspondent PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. — Angela Atkinson, paid consultant to the Town of Pagosa Springs on the Downtown Master Plan, consultant on the comprehensive plan, chair of the Big Box Task Force, interim chair of the Community Vision Council, member of the Town Tourism Committee, chair of the CVC Art &…

Special to The PREVIEW “The Lost Painting” by Jonathan Harr. Random House, 2005. Jonathan Harr brings the world of art history to life in “The Lost Painting.” Harr takes the reader into the world of art history student Francesca Capelletti and the tedious and often mundane work of digging through archives to trace the provenance…

Dozens of protestors opposing the Village at Wolf Creek were met in Creede on Friday, April 7, by an army of police and sheriff’s deputies from nine counties. Forty-five officers from Rio Grande, Pueblo, Alamosa, Conejos, Saquache, Mineral, Hinsdale, Gunnison and Archuleta counties and a command station RV outnumbered protestors three to one. The protests…

WOLF CREEK, Colo. — With the recent U.S. Forest Service approval of the “Application for Transportation and Utility Systems and Facilities for the Village at Wolf Creek Final Environmental Impact Statement,” the Village at Wolf Creek is one step closer to becoming a reality. In 2004, Mineral County approved the Village at Wolf Creek final…

PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. — A contract is a mutual exchange of a promise. In a contract, each party promises to do or not to do something in exchange for the other party’s promise to do or not to do something. This exchange happens verbally all the time and is legally valid, except when involving the…

Photos Courtesy Eric Swanson and SITE Santa FeOn left is Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Nine Cars,” gunpowder on rice paper. On right is Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Innopportune: Stage Two, 2004,” the tigers are made of papier mache, plaster, fiber glass, resin and painted hide. The arrows are made of brass, bamboo, feathers and bronze. On the wall to…