Posts tagged as “Sheriff Rich Smith”

On June 20, the now-defunct Sangre de Cristo Sentinel Newspaper published a sensational multi-page article titled “Happy Flag Day! Almost. Leftist violence comes to happy valley” that claimed an “enraged lib” drove by their Flag Day celebration on Saturday, June 14, and pointed a gun at the crowd. The article was authored by the late George Gramlich (who passed in September) and assisted in its pub­lication by the Sentinel’s Vice-President, Fred Hernandez. The long and often incoherent article tells how a group of Sentinel supporters, one of whom was Custer County Coro­nor Brad Baltzly, had gathered outside of the Sentinel office on the corner of 6th Street and Highway 69 in Westcliffe to counter-protest the planned “No Kings” march along Main Street of Westcliffe. The…