Delta coaches Luis Meza, center, and Clayton Curtis congratulate 152-pound senior Hunter Brasfield after an upset win sent him into the 4A Region 4 semifinals.
Hotchkiss senior Joe Boyle controls Ruben Chagoya of Basalt to win a 3A Region 1 title. He is one of 7 Hotchkiss state qualifiers.
Hotchkiss and Paonia boys will square off this week on the basketball courts. Both are 6-4 in league play.
Delta senior Brooke Taylor scores two of her 12 points against Summit after grabbing an offensive rebound.
Paonia 195-pounder Tyler “TK” Kendall sets Rangely’s Drew Collins up for a pin.
Paonia freshman Bo Pipher sets TJ Richard of North Park up for a pin in Saturday’s regional semifinal round. He is one of 13 Paonia wrestlers headed to state!
Surrounded by coaches and his dad, Conner Beard signs Letter of Intent to play football for the University of Nebraska Kearney.
Hotchkiss' Jacobe Galley signed a Letter of Intent to play football and study engineering at Colorado Mesa University.
Hotchkiss senior Cody Bartlett signed his National Letter of Intent to run cross-country for Hawaii Pacific University.
Last week's regular-season baseball finale in Gypsum was a victory for the Panthers as they rolled past Eagle Valley 12-1. The win left Delta with a league record of 12-2 and an overall mark of 16-3.
It was a tale of two games for Cedaredge's baseball team last week. The Bruins were on the road in Bayfield to face Peak to Peak's Pumas in game one of elimination play.
Photo by Tamie Meck Kylie Hodges releases the discus at the Bruin Invitational. Hodges will compete in both the discus and shot put at this week’s state 2A track meet in Lakewood. Teammate Daryl Batt had her best throw of the season and is going to state in…
Photo by Tamie Meck Senior Josiah Spano, of Paonia, was an All-Conference first team selecton in the 2A WSL for the 2012-13 hoop year.This year's Class 2A All-Conference and All-State honors in the 2013 Photo by Tamie Meck Paonia High School senior Annavah…
A few weeks ago, when we'd had our first frost, I checked out the sagebrush by our garage. This native blooms in the fall and it still had erect clusters of small, yellowish flowers.
Now the flowers have become seeds and are in tan-yellowish plumes, all nodding downward.
I recall my amazement when I first learned that this common shrub is in the Sunflower Family, Asteraceae. I immediately thought, "Where are the flowers?" And I soon learned, with the help of a patient instructor and a microscope, that those tiny, yellowish things were indeed flowers!
I study my plant in this winter phase. The nodding seed clusters, up to a foot long, occur toward the top of this four-foot shrub, but I've seen Big Sagebrush over 10 feet tall. And my plant today still has half-inch-long, gray-green leaves that are covered with fine hairs, giving the plant a silvery appearance. So this is, technically, a "winter-green" shrub, for this coming spring these old leaves fall away to be replaced by new ones. The leaves live only one season, in contrast to our "ever-greens" where the leaves remain for a number of seasons.
These leaves have three lobes at the tip, so it's named "tridentata" for three-toothed. The botanical label is Artemisia tridentate with Artimesia honoring an ancient Greek. But I've long wondered about the label "woodworm" for this large group of plants. And I've found enough information for half a book! But briefly, the leaves of a different species of sagebrush, Artemisia absinthium (occurring as an alien herb in our Gunnison Basin) were used in the preparation of a "vermifuge." Now the first part seems obvious after a moment's thought: "verm" would relate to vermin. Worms? Yep. The "fuge" would indicate how to get rid of the vermin (worms). Thus a worming agent!
And of course, there are many uses (some a bit questionable) but the Internet led to pages and pages of information! Also related are the alcoholic drinks absinthe and vermouth, plus there's much in Revelations 8:11, about a star called Wormwood that would fall and poison earthly waters. Simple sagebrush?
