Solid As a Rock: A Leadville Life On a personal note . . . from Publisher Kathy Bedell When you cover the news in a small town like Leadville Today, chances are pretty good you are going to know the […]
Friend of Twin Lakes Receives Award Kelly Sweeney was presented the Volunteer of the Year award by the South Central Region of Homeland according to a media advisory released by the Lake County Public Information Officer last week. Recognized for […]
Sign-Up for CMC Youth Leadership Program The First Ascent Youth Leadership program is now accepting applications for its free, weeklong course at Colorado Mountain College’s campus in Leadville. The deadline is April 19. This outdoor experiential course is now in its […]
Twin Lakes Avalanche Leaves Mess Behind While nearly two weeks have passed since the March 9 avalanche on Highway 82 west of Twin Lakes, certain dangers remain today. And with another series of storms predicted for this weekend, area residents […]
CMC This Week, LCSD Next Week It’s that time of year when Spring Break visitors abound in Leadville Today. Town is in the thick of it with historic snow levels and skiers from around the country filling up the rentals […]
Almost 5 Feet in 8 Days for Leadville There’s been a lot of speculation concerning the actual amount of snow that America’s highest city has seen since the calendar turned to March. However, when it comes to topics like this, […]
A Race Horse Dies in Leadville By Kathy Bedell, Leadville Today There’s a Code of the West that cowboys used to live by in the pioneer days. This list established an unwritten, socially agreed upon set of informal laws shaping […]
Ski Joring: Giddy-Up to Leadville March 2 & 3 Colorado is known around the world for its outdoor winter recreation: skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice skating, hockey, ice fishing. But when it comes to the boisterous sport of skijoring, Leadville sits […]
Giddy-Up & Get-Down for Ski Joring Weekend Are you ready for a Wild West weekend of fun?! Then Leadville, Colorado is the place to be! Of course, Leadville Ski Joring will be center-stage on historic Harrison Avenue, but you also […]
Leadville Winter Trail News You Can Use The Leadville Connection made a direct line from an internationally renowned cross-country ski race in Northwestern Wisconsin to Colorado last weekend when four of its skinny skiers from Leadville finished the American Birkebeiner! Congratulations to […]
Phonics: The Key to Reading By Joyce Rankin, State Board of Education Why aren’t our third-grade students able to read? I’ve been asked this question many times by constituents, and as an elementary school teacher I believe the answer may be […]
Twin Lakes Derby Sees Record Numbers Coming up over the ridge on Highway 82 last Saturday into Twin Lakes, two words came to mind: brrrr and wow! The former referred to the sub-zero temperatures that greeted competitors who had set […]
