Medicine Horse Center in Mancos is gearing up for the spring riding season and will celebrate its 11th year in Mancos of helping children and adults across the Southwest to learn valuable skills. Most people that come to the center have special needs. Director Lynne Howarth said, "Horses are the most honest mirrors of human behavior." She even said she has seen a disabled person speak for the first time after riding a horse.
Mancos Times
Mancos, Colorado
March didn't do much for next summer's water supply. Mike Preston, head of the Dolores Water Conservancy District said the 2013 water distribution is looking worse as time goes on. Without either a lot of snow in the high country in April, or an extraordinarily wet summer, farmers will face a shortage this summer. Dove Creek secondary water users may face that as well.
Dove Creek Press
Dove Creek, Colorado
Voters and voters only, will determine if there is to be a change in the alcohol sales policy in Blanding. The Blanding City Council on March 26 declined to make a change in the policy through a council action and also defeated a motion that would have put the issue on the November ballot.
Blanding has not permitted the sale of alcoholic beverages since the community was founded more than 100 years ago.
Supporters of the proposal were urged to pursue the matter through a citizens petition. A petition would put the measure on the ballot if it contained the names of 10 percent of the city voters.
San Juan Record
San Juan County, Utah
Numerous questions to the San Juan County Commission were posed by Shawn Welch on April 1. Welch is the attorney hired by the county to look into the legal aspects of the Gunnison sage grouse habitat designation. Welch's letter to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife comments on the lack of an economic analysis and a National Environment Policy Act document. He states that U. S. Fish and Wildlife did not properly designate the proposed area n San Juan County.
San Juan Record
San Juan County, Utah
A $1,000 reward was approved by the Monticello City Council on March 26 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person, referred to as the "Creeper", who has been entering homes in the area.
The issue was brought to the council by incoming City Manager Greg Westfall, who said he has been approached by many members of the community suggesting the reward.
Sand Juan Record
San Juan County, Utah
