Opinion

Nothing in the Baca Grande will ever change, except growth without infrastructure to support it, unless the Baca Grande becomes a town. What is the process of incorporation? The Colorado Revised Statutes governing incorporation is Title 31 – Government Municipal. The process begins with inhabitants of an area that is not already part of a town filing a petition to incorporate with the district court. In this case the court is in Saguache County. A petition asking the court’s permission to hold an election on the matter of incorporation was circulated this summer, signatures were collected, and the petition was filed with...

December, 1989 I published the first Crestone Eagle newspaper. It was a huge leap of faith. Crestone was small then, but big things were happening. I felt that people needed to know about them. I started out small. But the amount of community support for this wild endeavor was huge.