2020: The year in review, in pictures
Jared Oubre leads a demonstration at Columbine Park Friday with poetry, song and an 8-minute, 46-second long “moment of silence” in memory of George Floyd.
Like many businesses in Buena Vista, Avery-Parsons Elementary offered curbside pickup during COVID-19 related closures this week. District staff delivered bagged lunches to families who drove up to the school around lunchtime.
Longtime Chaffee County Times staffer and route manager Mary Lee Bensman wears a home-designed mask while she wipes down newspaper boxes in front of the building on East Main Street as part of her continuing safety protocols in the Buena Vista area.
Ron Hanks, the Republican candidate for House District 60 in the Colorado General Assembly, takes his turn at the mic during the Buena Vista Event Cooperative’s Fourth of July candidate forum. Seated behind Hanks are Republican Chaffee County Commission candidate Hannah Hannah, Libertarian commission candidate Bonnie Davis, interim District Attorney Kaitlin Turner running as a Democrat to be elected into that role in November, Commissioner Keith Baker, running as a Democrat for re-election and Lori Boydston, running as a Democrat for House District 60.
Tidwell retires this month from the Buena Vista Police Department where he spent the last 24 years as chief.
A Flight For Life helicopter lands above treeline on Mount Yale to rescue an injured hiker .
The 2021 Ford Bronco was displayed at the Rodeo Grounds this weekend as part of the Bronco Super Celebration West, its first-ever public appearance.
Annie Hughes approaches the finish after over 61 hours of running to complete her FKT of the Collegiate Loop in September.
Joe Cogan surveys his property, the 507-acre Chubb Park Ranch east of Buena Vista. Cogan opted to place the ranch into a conservation easement to protect it from development, Land Trust of the Upper Arkansas (now Central Colorado Conservancy) executive director Andrew Mackie said in a June 22, 2013 Times feature. Cogan is a “from-the-heart-kind of landowner,” Mackie said.
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The town saw the retirement of long-serving chiefs in the Buena Vista Police Department and Fire Department, two elections, the appointment of new principals in four schools, a new grocery store, a state championship and a summer with no music festivals, but some snowfall.
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