Today - Dozens of community members braved the cold rain last week to attend the opening celebration of the district’s new outdoor learning center, Outer Range, where the first phase of construction was done less than a year after plans were hatched.

Also, December 2 saw the first prison sentence handed down in a bogus billing and kickback scheme that bilked the Western Area Power Authority’s Montrose location of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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