Beware a Chill on Sunday
Crisp, Cold Air To Strike On Sunday
Richard Ortner, 7NEWS Meteorologist

UPDATED: 10:31 AM MST January 23, 2004

Warm weather returns for the end of the week. We started the day with morning temperatures running about 15-degrees above average, and the warmer weather will stick around.

Temperatures will reach the upper 50s to low 60s along the Front Range this afternoon, and the 30s, 40s, and 50s in the high country. You'll notice that the winds will be a bit gusty, especially in the foothills and the mountains. Otherwise, the day is shaping up nicely.

Details at theDENVERchannel...
01.23.04 @ 08:54 PM MST [link]

ET Calls Home!
NASA Gets Signals From Mars Rover
Jan. 23, 2004

(CBS/AP) NASA received data from the Spirit rover Friday morning for the first time in two days, ending fears that the Mars mission may have come to a calamitous halt. But an official said the rover's condition remains "critical" and restoring it to full function could take weeks.

The six-wheeled rover communicated for 10 minutes at about 4:30 a.m. and transmitted some data for 20 minutes about an hour later, officials said in statements early Friday.

The full story at CBS.com...

01.23.04 @ 08:47 PM MST [link]

Heartbeats Only Indication Spirit Is Alive
NASA unable to communicate with Mars rover
Thursday, January 22, 2004 Posted: 8:48 PM EST (0148 GMT)

The Spirit rover reached for Martian soil for the first time January 16.

(CNN) -- The Spirit rover has stopped transmitting data from Mars, NASA mission controllers said Thursday, but there were signs it is still operating at a basic level.

NASA scientists now have received a basic communication tone from the rover indicating it is alive but the solid flows of data that marked its first 18 days on Mars have stopped, said Richard Cook, deputy project manager, speaking from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The full story at CNN.Com...
01.22.04 @ 10:26 PM MST [link]

HOV Lanes For One Soon
Tolls for fast lanes
Those used by buses, car pools to open in '05 to paying customers

By Kevin Flynn, Rocky Mountain News
January 22, 2004

The Downtown Express bus and car-pool lanes on Interstate 25 could be opened to toll-paying lone drivers by early next year, the first of a planned string of state-sponsored toll roads.

The full story at The Rocky Mountain News...

01.22.04 @ 10:10 PM MST [link]

Lawmakers May Raise Legal Driving Age
18 for a license?
By The Associated Press
January 22, 2004

After hearing tearful parents describe how their children died in a car crash, lawmakers threatened today to raise the legal driving age to 18 if teenagers don't become safer drivers.

The House Transportation Committee approved a bill that would increase restrictions on those learning to drive, but members said they would consider a more stringent measure if merited.

More at The Rocky Mountain News...

01.22.04 @ 10:06 PM MST [link]

Refinancing? Four ways to gain an edge
The lowest mortgage rates in 45 years have brought a refinancing boomlet, creating delays and stoking loan applicants' competitive fires.

"People want to know, 'How do I get my loan file at the top of the stack?'" says Lori Vella, vice president for Washington Mutual.

There are four things you can do to gain an edge. Full Story

01.22.04 @ 09:51 AM MST [link]

Biofuels touted to fund forest thinning
Colorado must find ways to create energy from wood chips if it has any hope of addressing its wildfire problem, Interior Secretary Gale Norton said Wednesday. FULL STORY

01.22.04 @ 08:47 AM MST [link]

Local teacher injured in Pine Junction accident
An elementary school teacher from Deer Creek was injured in a crash in Pine Junction Monday.

You can discuss the story in our forum at This link
01.20.04 @ 02:45 PM MST [link]

Phillipsburg does exist
By: S. Leo Richardson

For the past seventeen years I have been a friend to 46 year-old Vanessa Bernacci. She recently experienced multiple losses. Her father had died and her sisters had swindled her out of $26,000. ` Her losses were extreme and she came close to being in poverty. Having two college degrees, she was determined to make things work during this transition time of her life. A year ago she moved into a mountain home about 1,000 yards off the main highway, where she and two of her children live. As history goes out-law Alfred Packer died in a house just across the road from Vanessa.

Two tenths of a mile down the road from her house is an old firehouse, 16 X 19, still standing. It was built in 1889 to keep the fire wagon for the community. Adjacent to the firehouse was a convenience store, and next to that, a dance hall. Jesse James was known to have been there on a stage stop. The place was named Phillipsburg in 1913. This one acre parcel of land is located west of Littleton, along a deep canyon highway, winding west up along Deer Creek. Four miles west of where the highway splits the county has erected a sign, “Phillipsburg 6 miles.” Some books say Phillipsburg no longer exist. It does exist; Vanessa made it exist.

posted on Tue, 01.20.04 @ 02:22 PM MST [more..]

Pinecamkid in the news
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Margaret Harrison takes seven dance classes a week. It’s background that serves her well whenever she goes caving — which is a lot.

“Margaret is very graceful going through caves,” said her dad, Wayne Harrison. “She’s very agile.”
Monday, the 12-year-old sixth-grader from Pine, which is south of Conifer, was climbing gingerly around the Glenwood Caverns with her dad. Margaret was collecting data for an experiment she’s conducting inside The Barn portion of the caves.

Margaret spent the day fully equipped with wind pants, jacket, gloves, a cave pack loaded with gear, and a helmet with not one but two headlamps attached to it with black electrician’s tape.

Full story
01.20.04 @ 08:48 AM MST [link]