This weekend, two very important events for cycling are taking place near my home town.

If you have to pee in the river, make sure it's moving at a decent rate to ensure dilution.

Buena Vista author Maria Weber to do a reading from her new poetry chapbook, What's Left at Salida's Book Haven at 125 F Street.

An early-morning fire gutted one home in the Rockrimmon area and caused the evacuation of another early Tuesday morning.

U.S. Highway 285 is closed south of Fairplay because of a crash that spilled ammonium nitrate on the highway, the Colorado State Patrol said Friday evening.

54F FAIR

Partly cloudy. Lows 37 to 43. Light winds.

Mostly sunny. Isolated thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs 69 to 78. Light winds becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.

Partly cloudy. Lows 40 to 47. West winds up to 10 mph.

Sunny. Highs 71 to 80. West winds 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.