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“It was an eye opener,” Pagosa Springs Town Planner Tamra Allen said of the Culture, Commerce and Community Conference she attended May 20-21 in Denver. Sponsored by Colorado Council on the Arts, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, the Lab at Belmar and Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, the event was billed as a…

Special to The PREVIEW, Aug. 4, 2005 Want to buy a six-foot-tall, forton puma? Twenty-six of the 29 pumas from the San Juan Mountains Association “Pumas on Parade” will be auctioned online starting Aug. 15. Until then, puma sightings around Pagosa include the Visitor’s Center at the Chamber of Commerce, the Pagosa Springs Community Center…

An art gallery is a place full of promise. Creative energy emanates from paintings, sculptures, ceramics, glassworks, and jewelry. The hopes and aspirations of each individual artist are brushed across canvases in alizarin crimson, cadmium, cobalt, chromium oxide, and raw sienna. Taminah Gallery & Gift Shop in Pagosa Springs is such a place for me—at…

Venues need updating. Venues are scattered. Event volunteers and organizers are experiencing burnout. Events are organized around holidays when lodging is already filled and businesses are busy. The town needs better gateway markers and signs to identify the historic downtown and develop transportation links between event venues and downtown. There is a lack of communication…

Leanne Goebel, l.goebel@pagosa.com | Posted 1/27/05 “We’re objective analysts,” said Dan Guimond of Economic & Planning Systems, Inc. Guimond and EPS Vice President, Andy Knudtsen held a scoping session at the Community Center with over 150 people crowded into the Senior Center dining room.The Community Vision Council, working with the Town of Pagosa Springs, contracted…

Leanne Goebel, l.goebel@pagosa.com | Posted 1/14/05 Preserving open space, wildlife habitats, and the family ranching way of life without putting the land in the hands of a government agency — this is one appeal for creating a conservation easement with a non-profit land trust such as the Southwest Land Alliance (SLA) A conservation easement is…

The Town of Pagosa Springs completed Draft Resolution (2004-15) opposing the Mineral County approval of the Village at Wolf Creek at a special meeting of the Council on November 9. “The resolution has not been filed, but the Town has sent comments to the Forest Service on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement,” Mark Garcia, Town…

“Therefore, be it resolved by the Town Council of the Town of Pagosa Springs that until our stated concerns are satisfied, we cannot endorse the Village at Wolf Creek, as approved by the Mineral County Commissioners in Resolution No. 2004-23.” Mayor Ross Aragon called the meeting to order. Stan Holt made the motion, Tony Simmons…

Last fall, C.J. “Jerry” Hannah suggested that we start a “salon” to build a creative community in Pagosa. “We need to bring people together: artists, writers, patrons,” he said. I agreed. So we invited everyone we knew to gather at the home of Jerry and his wife Jo. I love Jerry and Jo’s house. It’s…

A $50,000 grant from the Daniels Fund for Seeds of Learning might be lost. The grant, awarded in February 2004 to help finance the construction of a new child and family care center, is a matching grant. Seeds of Learning will get $50,000 when they have raised $50,000 in matching funds from local businesses, organizations…