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Sonya Robison, of rural Yoder, Colo., was attacked in 2006 at home and missed mortgage payments while deciding whether to abandon the home because of her trauma. She decided to stay, and negotiated a repayment plan with her loan servicer. Though Robison was current on payments, she went away for Christmas and returned to find the locks changed and the house "winterized." The electricity, gas, water supply were all turned off. The servicer said it was a mistake, they would cover the costs of turning everything back on. She suggested she just skip on payment. By the time she made the next payment, they sent it back and initiated foreclosure proceedings. But it turns out the party that's filed the foreclosure does not appear on any deed or note. She is suing the bank.. (For The New York Times)



Jannafaye Thompson, of Brighton, Colo., faced foreclosure after being laid off from an earlier job and a battle over the immigration status of her husband, Alejandro Escolera Flores, rear. She shares the house with him, her daughter Ashliane and 17-month-old granddaughter Aspyne. (For The New York Times)



An antique can of Beatrice brand sweet corn stands on display in downtown Beatrice, Nebr., Thursday, July 15, 2010. The town is offering parcels of land for anyone willing to build on the land and live there for at least three years. The town is also home to the first registered homestead from the 1862 homestead act and Homestead National Monument of America. (For The New York Times)



Norma Clark, 80, with Certified Nursing Assistant Lela Dennis, walks out to horse stalls where less than two years earlier Clark slipped on ice while feeding her horses and broke her hip. Clark pulled herself up to lock the gate on the horses before crawling through the Jan. 2 snow some 40 yards to her house to call for help. The trip took three hours through the snowdrifts as her dogs watched over her. Wyoming is one of the nation's fastes-aging states as young people move away and fixed-income retirees move in for the lower cost of living. The remoteness of Wyomings senior citizens presents unique challenges for state health programs. (For The New York Times)



Bill Trampe, a third-generation Gunnison rancher, moves irrigation water off of hay fields near his family's farmstead outside Gunnison, Colo. (For Headwaters magazine)


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