The Tri-Glenwood Triathlon and its uber-loyal following turns 26 years old this Sunday.
Some 352 starters, a total that includes 40 teams, get their day started with an 825-meter swim at the Hot Springs Lodge pool. From there, competitors head west for a 15-mile bike ride out to Canyon Creek and back and then transition at the Hot Springs parking lot before heading out for a five-mile run along the River Trail.
A packed finish line always awaits racers outside Hotel Denver on Seventh Street.
Participants vary from first-time triathletes to...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Former sheriff Tom Dalessandri calls into question current staffing levels in the Garfield County Sheriff's Office since Lou Vallario took over eight years ago, saying he would trim what he sees as administrative "fat."
"It's less about programs as it is about staffing, and the disproportionate staffing that we see in the sheriff's office," the former two-term Democratic sheriff said at the Glenwood Chamber's Issues and Answers Night candidates forum Tuesday night at City Hall.
Dalessandri is back seeking a return to the sheriff's job he lost to...

New Castle residents are now recycling more following changes to the town waste hauling contract this past spring.
Herman Aardsma, operations manager with Mountain Roll-offs Inc (MRI) in Silt that handles the town waste contract, said his company is tracking increases in both recycling participation and volumes of collection. He said monitoring from early April through early July showed an average recycling participation rate of 77.6 percent of all households, which represents strong participation for non-mandatory recycling programs in the U.S. "The amount of recycling that town residents are doing is more...

Garfield County voters will have a fairly clear choice before them on Nov. 2, when they pick the candidate - either incumbent Tresi Houpt or challenger Tom Jankovsky - who will serve in the District 1 seat for the coming four years.
For the past eight years Houpt, a Democrat, has held the job, representing Carbondale, the southeastern portion of the unincorporated county, and part of Glenwood Springs.
Calling herself a "fiscal conservative" at a candidates' forum on Sept. 7, Houpt said a large part of her job is to achieve a...

Will Newcomer's love for all things outdoors drew him to adventure racing. And, once he started dabbling in the multi-
discipline, several-hour races, it didn't take him long to create his own race series.
Newcomer's brainchild - the Adventure Xstream race circuit - is making a stop in Glenwood Springs for the first time on Saturday.
Competitors will face a 50-mile course that incorporates a wide range of disciplines. Mountain biking, kayaking, trail running, rappelling, caving and river boarding await the 150-plus athletes already signed up as solo entrants or as...

A former Aspen couple are reeling from the loss of their Belize house and crocodile sanctuary, which were burnt to the ground Sunday morning by an angry mob of villagers.
Sunday's rampage was reportedly instigated by approximately 100 indigenous Mayans, who stormed the property of Cherie and Vincent Rose while they were away. Since the torching, the couple have moved from their home in Punta Gorda, located on the Caribbean coast off southeastern Belize, to an island in the northeastern region of the Central American country.
"We're still trying to...