“Local news for (fill in a town on your bucket list, or in your itinerary) continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.”

For couples and parents, you might find the following quote from city-data a deal breaker:
An excerpt from Book Three in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your dreams.
5-Year Time Frames — 2003 – 2008
Continuing with favorite Highlights and Headlines for the next five years.
5-Year Time Frames 2009 – 2014
Later in 2009 as the impact of the Great Recession begins to sink in …

Pagosa Springs Locals Resist Arts Cuts
No music festivals, no dance, no theater, no art galleries, no children’s programs, no singing, no film festivals, no sculpture, no debates in the newspaper about differing …
Winter 2009 – 2010
While other Colorado towns (Vail) lined up for economic stimulus money…
Winter Snow Scenes
Pierre Mion taught his popular Winter Watercolor Workshop featuring Pagosa area snow scenes, one of which was featured on the December page of the 2009 Pagosa Country Calendar.
Winter 2013 – 2014
Overlooked Family Bargains in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming –
Wolf Creek, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, most snow in Colorado.

$58 adult lift tickets, no lift lines. great food at the ski lodge. Great accommodations. Lots to do besides great skiing & great snowboarding. Hike, cross-country ski, snow shoe. horseback ride, sleigh ride, enjoy Pagosa Hot Springs, right downtown Pagosa. indoor heated olympic pool. Great restaurants, tequila, Bear Creek, JT’s, Chatos. Awesome grocery – City Market. miss ski season by 5 months for secret spot fly fishing, ride the Cumbres Toltec narrow gauge railroad, Red Ryder Rodeo every thursday night.
For regional coverage we’ve relied on Topix.com in the past.
“Local news for (fill in a town on your bucket list, or in your itinerary) continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.”
To test it out, search for your current hometown.
Notice and how current and complete the local items in the news are in your search results.
We set up RSS feeds for Topix towns, but soon discovered a major problem.
- Like almost every other news outlet, local online papers rely on world and state news to fill their editions (that weren’t relevant).
- AND, the vast majority of local stories centered on crime.
So we set up a variety of filters to screen out “jail,” “robbery,”” burglary,” and all the variations of those terms.
As a back up, you might want to try The Paperboy.com which claims they’ve got lists of 12,064 Online Newspapers & ePapers.

News feeds for Whitefish, Montana:
http://www.topix.com/city/-mt
http://www.pilot.com/ for the Pilot News – set up an RSS feed

For Pagosa Springs, Colorado:
http://www.topix.com/city/pagosa-springs-co
http://www.pagosasun.com/ Pagosa Springs Sun
And, finally if you’re serious about Pagosa Springs (or Whitefish so far), or about any other town on your growing bucket list, you’ll want to investigate the most comprehensive resource we’ve found – city-data.com.

Their detailed, statistical data often provide more information than you know what to do with.
They aggregate public records open and available to the public at large and periodically update their information based on the records that these agencies release.
They also encourage user-generated content.
Here’s the link for Pagosa Springs:
http://www.city-data.com/city/Pagosa-Springs-Colorado.html.

For couples and parents, you might find the following quote from city-data a deal breaker:

According to our research of Colorado and other state lists there were 24 registered sex offenders living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado as of April 20, 2015.
The ratio of number of residents in Pagosa Springs to the number of sex offenders is 71 to 1.
Steps:
25) Compare what “life” was like in those communities before the Great Recession, how resilient each was during the economic downturn, and to what degree did each bounce back after with any “economic hangover.”
30) Review headlines and relevant news as far back as you can find online to surface each community’s unique pulse and identify information necessary to make your decision. Is there a “ticking time bomb” issue you may uncover that eliminates the resort from your bucket list? Search on topix.com.