The April 1 beginning of at least 75 days of boating on the normally dry Lower Dolores River

Hundreds of local residents protesting and holding vigils in opposition to the five-year anniversary of the War in Iraq
The Chapman Hill Ski Area bringing the best season in a decade to a close this week
St. Patrick’s Day hitting a new low when a Fort Lewis student entered a southside home at 5 a.m. and passed out naked in the shower
Five years of War in Iraq and nearly 4,000 American dead, a $263.3 billion dollar budget deficit and record gas prices to show for it
Evidence that President Bush intervened and substantially watered down the EPA’s new ozone-pollution standards