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Agricultural producers within the Tomichi and Escalante watersheds — on the west end of the county — will have the opportunity to bolster their drought resiliency starting in 2023. Trout Unlimited (TU), a nonprofit focusing on stream and watershed health, has secured a federal funding opportunity to help these valley food producers implement projects like channel restoration, irrigation infrastructure and wildlife habitat improvement. rough a partnership with the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), TU will be able to distribute over $1.5 million in funding over the next four years tofarmersaroundthevalley.

2023 FREE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2022 VOLUME ISSUE #31 YOUR BUYING,SELLING AND SERVICES FROM LAKE CITY TO MT. CRESTED Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at 901 N. Main St.,Gunnison 641-6304 Present your City Market receipt to receive 15% OFF FINE WINE! (Excludes cellar selections and sale items) Open Thanksgiving Day 9am 3pm. Thank you for your business! INSIDE TODAY COMMUNITY Local women try ice fishing for first time, B1 OBITUARIES A3 OPINION A4-A5 CLASSIFIEDS A15-A17 SPORTS B9 ONLINE GUNNISONTIMES.COM $1.00 SPORTS: Spring Preview inside, B9 Abby Harrison Girl Scouts corner cookie market Virginia Murdza and Ember Reign Arnold, two Brownies Troop 15070, sold all varieties of Girl Scout cookies the front of Ace Hardware Gunnison on March 2. The girls kept tabs on the number of boxes sold, and stored their earnings empty cookie boxes. Those passing by couldn’t help but stop and buy at least few boxes from the young businesswomen. COMMENTARY: Cheers to the women of the Gunnison Valley, The edge of affordability High interest rates and market boom puts pressure on Lazy K project Bella Biondini Times Editor Shadow boxes filled with tiny, hand-painted figurines of Dungeons and Dragons characters hung in Don Lansford’s new living room. They were hidden away in boxes before he moved to Lazy K because there just wasn’t space. Even though the home isn’t much larger than his previous place at the Holden Village mobile home park, feels that much bigger, he said. “I don’t feel like Gandalf in hobbit house, I’ve got room for stuff now,” Lansford said. “It just feels more like home.” Lansford moved to the Gunnison Valley to attend Western State College in 1996, and has rented for the past two decades. He always dreamed of buying house, but struggled to save up for down payment, as home prices crawled upward. He had begun to consider leaving the valley when he stumbled across the City of Gunnison’s first affordable housing development, Lazy K. County hires cheatgrass coordinator Treatment workshop marks start of busy mitigation season Bella Biondini Times Editor With funding secured and new cheatgrass coordinator in place, county leaders are taking steps to build awareness and slow the spread of the invasive weed’s expanding range in the Gunnison Basin. Approximately 40 community members gathered the Fred Field Center on March for a free cheatgrass treatment workshop designed to help landowners understand the impacts of the noxious weed. Although not the first of its kind, this workshop was the first event organized by Petar Simic, Gunnison County’s new cheatgrass and habitat restoration coordinator. The event was hosted by Gunnison County in partnership with the Gunnison Conservation District and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. The all-day workshop covered wide range of topics Cheatgrass A8 Lazy K A6 OL 14 NO. 10 THURSDAY MARCH 9 2023 Gunnison schools to lose two principals Seefried heads to Front Range, Hanks to start new district role Abby Harrison Times Staff Writer Gunnison Middle School Principal Andy Hanks and Gunnison Elementary School Principal Michael Seefried will both depart from their positions next fall, leaving the Gunnison Watershed School District with two important vacancies to for the 2023-2024 school year. Superintendent Leslie Nichols said the district will look to hire internally before expanding the search to non-district employ“I think we have some fantastic talent of young leaders rising in our district … It’s hard to know how any hiring process will unfold, but am hopeful that we'll have some strong internal candidates,” Nichols Andy Hanks will start as a special administrator the fall of 2023. continued on A10 WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS GUNNISON COUNTRY MAGAZINE HOMES INSIDE & OUT HOMES SPRING 2022 COMPLIMENTARY A GUNNISON COUNTRY TIMES PUBLICATION Healthy Trees Market Trends • Health at Home Container Gardening • Protect Home from Pets Inside & Out PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS THE BEST of Gunnison INSIDE: A YEAR IN PHOTOS BEST RESTAURANT BEST BIKE SHOP BEST CHEF BEST TEACHER BEST RETAIL STORE BEST NONPROFIT BEST COFFEE & MORE! ALAN WARTES MEDIA T Bella Biondini HUNTING GUIDE PLUS: CATTLEMEN’S DAYS, LOCAL SPORTS PREVIEWS, GRAD TAB, HOMETOWN HOLIDAYS & MORE ADVERTSING KIT

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Seefried heads to Front Range, Hanks to start new district role Abby Harrison Times Staff Writer Gunnison Middle School Principal Andy Hanks and Gunnison Elementary School Principal Michael Seefried will both depart from their positions next fall, leaving the Gunnison Watershed School District with two important vacancies to ll for the 2023-2024 school year. Superintendent Leslie Nichols said the district will look to hire internally before expanding the search to non-district employees. “I think we have some fantastic talent of young leaders rising in our district … It’s hard to know how any hiring process will unfold, but am hopeful that we'll have some strong internal candidates,” Nichols Andy Hanks will start as special administrator in the fall of 2023. continued on A10 NEW INTERACTIVE FLIPBOOK WITH LIVE LINKS & VIDEO! Just let us know what you’d like linked! WEATHER: Winter season comes to a close, B3 ART: Visual expressions from an addicted ski mountaineer, B8 SPORTS: Spring Sports Preview, B9 GUNNISON COUNTRYTIMES THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023 Hooked on ice Localwomentryicefishingforthefirsttime AbbyHarrison Times Staff Writer Six women gathered at the Dry Creek parking lot early last Sunday morning, bundled in several layers, hats and gloves to fight the early morning chill. They walked down a snow- packed boat ramp and onto the frozen north shore of Blue Mesa Reservoir with a single, and sim- ple,mission:tocatcha sh. The outing, organized by Gunnison Valley Women’s Network, brought women from both ends of the valley togeth- er to try ice fishing for the first time. The network is the brainthechildofErinCroke,whofounded group nearly seven years ago to meet new people and make business connections. Croke found difficult to make friends when she first moved to the val- ley, especially without the “mom connection” to meet fellow par- ents at school events. She decided to take matters into her own hands, and with just a few key- strokes on Facebook, the group came to “We’relife.always trying to find new things to do,” Croke said. “Th was fun new adventure.” The group meets once month for business network- ing nights, and fills the time in between with adventures around the valley, from wine tastings to Local al AbbyHarrison Hooked B2 StacyShultzsitspatientlybytheicehole,waitingfor nibble.JohnKeslerbobstheluresothefishercanseehow movement looks on the fish finder. ErinCrokecaughtthefirsttwofishofthemorning.

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