David Marston

The broad, rugged North Fork Valley with the sun cascading down from cobalt-blue skies.

Guest Commentary: If the water goes in Paonia — drought, theft and mining — the desert will move in

August 7, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.

Paonia, a small town in western Colorado with a handful of mesas rising above it, wouldn鈥檛 green-up without water diverted from a river or mountain springs.

Marston: Almost 70 when the virus ended his Colorado coal mining job

June 8, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

Until the pandemic restricted coal mining to those 60 or younger in Gunnison County in western Colorado, Gary Brezonick wasn鈥檛 thinking about retirement. He鈥檇 worked as a coal miner for...

Guest Commentary: When the virus hits you, it hits hard

March 26, 2020 at 12:24 p.m.

When my wife, Edel, a teacher, developed a cough after working with a woman who came to the elementary school slightly sick, we assumed it was just that, a cough.

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Guest Commentary: If the water goes in Paonia — drought, theft and mining — the desert will move in

Marston: Almost 70 when the virus ended his Colorado coal mining job

Guest Commentary: When the virus hits you, it hits hard