This Mother’s Day weekend will be extra special for Ana Gallardo.
The young mother will receive her associate’s degree in general studies from Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs on Saturday after enrolling in courses off and on throughout the past decade.
Gallardo was also accepted into Colorado Mountain College’s nursing program after three application attempts.
The first-generation Mexican American student’s rate of progress may seem unremarkable, but Gallardo chose to focus on raising her daughter first before anything else a decision she made when she was only 18-years-old.
“I was pregnant in high school and I was a teen mom,” Gallardo said. “And when I had her in 2011, that’s when I decided to sign up for Colorado Mountain College.”
Traffic travels along Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon just below the Grizzly Creek Fire burn scar.
Recreation and travel in Glenwood Canyon will be much more hazardous due to the potential rockfall and debris flows originating from destabilized ground, rock and weakened trees burned by the Grizzly Creek Fire last summer.
A closure plan for the Glenwood Springs canyon trails and bike paths, as well as the section of Interstate 70 that runs through the burn-scarred slopes, was presented during a community meeting Tuesday night.
The Colorado Department of Transportation developed a closure plan to protect the traveling public from debris flow where safety closures would be triggered in the event of a flash flood warning, closing I-70 in Glenwood Canyon from Exit 116 (Glenwood Springs) to Exit 133 (Dotsero).
Traffic travels along Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon just below the Grizzly Creek Fire burn scar.
Recreation and travel in Glenwood Canyon will be much more hazardous due to the potential rockfall and debris flows originating from destabilized ground, rock and weakened trees burned by the Grizzly Creek Fire last summer.
A closure plan for the Glenwood Springs canyon trails and bike paths, as well as the section of Interstate 70 that runs through the burn-scarred slopes, was presented during a community meeting Tuesday night.
The Colorado Department of Transportation developed a closure plan to protect the traveling public from debris flow where safety closures would be triggered in the event of a flash flood warning, closing I-70 in Glenwood Canyon from Exit 116 (Glenwood Springs) to Exit 133 (Dotsero).
Chelsea Self / Post Independent
Conducting municipal and county business in-person might soon get easier throughout Garfield County.
But one county office in particular will still be limiting person-to-person interactions due to an inexperienced staff.
The Garfield County Clerk’s Office has made various in-person appointments for various transactions since July of 2020, according to County Clerk Jean Alberico.
Alberico said staff are currently working through a soft opening and will officially be allowing walk-in customers from 8:30-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. beginning May 17.
“It took us several months to figure out how to efficiently help customers with remote transactions so we need to take some time to get back into working with walk-in customers,” Alberico said. “I had two long- term Motor Vehicle Clerks sell their homes recently and move out of state. The new team members started on May 3rd.”
Glenwood Springs City Council will discuss how to proceed with a major funding shortfall for the Three Mile Creek Confluence project, which came up nearly two-thirds short of the $631,771 estimated cost.
The work most important to the health of the riparian ecosystem was estimated to cost $113,559, which includes restoration revegetation, plantings and irrigation. In total, the project is short $391,021.
Last fall, the city applied for three grants two from the Colorado Water Conservation Board and one from the U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
“We were successful with the two CWCB applications ultimately receiving a total award of $190,000, the maximum permitted via grant funding stipulations and the city’s matching funds,” the meeting documents state.