The Denver Post: A newspaper feud at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountains has veered toward violence with editors armed, lawsuits flying, and threats from riled-up residents forcing the closure of a 140-year-old Main Street newsroom for safety.

It got to the point that attorneys last week coaxed editors of the Wet Mountain Tribune and the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel to sit for a 21st-century solution — mediation via Zoom — and defuse tensions reminiscent of the 19th-century wild west.

“We have a diversity of thought here. That’s good,” Westcliffe Mayor Paul Wenke said. “I sure hope it doesn’t lead to violence. But it could.”

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