Jan Wondra

1 week ago | arkvalleyvoice.com | Jan Wondra

More than 4,000 internet customers in Chaffee and Custer counties are now officially Visionary Broadband customers, following the full rebranding of Aristata Communications. The naming update comes just one year after Visionary acquired the homegrown telecom provider. It caps off a year of rapid infrastructure investment, customer speed boosts and expanded fiber projects across the region. “We’re not just changing the name on the bill,” said Visionary CEO Brian Worthen.

1 week ago | arkvalleyvoice.com | Jan Wondra

Program provides billions in federal funding to bolster natural disaster prevention efforts The summer tourist season in the Colorado Rockies is nearly here, and residents know what that means. Wildfire.

1 week ago | arkvalleyvoice.com | Jan Wondra

The Chaffee Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) will meet in special session beginning at 9:00 a.m. Thursday, April 17, proceeding nearly immediately into two executive sessions. The BoCC has a single item on the consent agenda for their session: to approve the Common Ground Fund Agreement for GARNA Porta-potties on Public Lands program, as recommended by Chaffee Common Ground Citizens Advisory Committee.

1 week ago | arkvalleyvoice.com | Jan Wondra

The Chaffee Board of County commissioners and the Chaffee Planning Commission have scheduled a joint work session for 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 15 in the Commissioners Meeting Room at 104 Crestone Ave, Salida. This will be followed at 6:00 p.m. by the regular Planning Commission (PC) meeting. The purpose of the work session is a  Planning Refresher Workshop presented by Department of Local Affairs Senior Planner KC McFerson.

1 week ago | arkvalleyvoice.com | Jan Wondra

For more than 30 years, the National Weather Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has executed extreme weather warnings in more than one language. The weather warnings have always been considered a bi-partisan effort to ensure public safety during extreme weather events such as tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires and floods.