WAYNE LEE won last year's Mark Fischer Poetry Award, and thus is the judge of this year's. The award will be given this Friday, June 14, at Arroyo Wine bar, where the four nominees will read from their work and a winner will be announced. (Courtesy photo)
Poets and musicians make every word and every note count.
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK – Roping and cutting skills will be on competitive display at the Ridgway Heritage Days and Ranch Rodeo, coming up next weekend, June 15 and 16. (Courtesy photo)
Ridgway’s newest event, Heritage Days and Ranch Rodeo, rides into town next weekend, June 15 and 16.
FRIENDLY FROG – Austin Richardson on location. He plays the lead in the Magic Children's Theatre production of Hieronymous A. Frog, which opens June 7. (Courtesy photo)
Children’s theatre in Montrose, and in Telluride, abstract art and a new museum show.
SIDEWALK SHOW – Six-year-old Ellie Duncan and her sister 7-year-old Mia colored a yellow brick road lined with flowers on the sidewalk in the 500 block of Main Street in downtown Montrose Tuesday morning. (Photo by William Woody)
It’s time to pull out the pastels this week in downtown Montrose with its First Friday Stroll dedicated to all things sidewalk chalk.
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The summer music season officially kicks off with hot shows in Telluride, Ouray and beyond.
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HIGH TIMES – The Gold Belt Theatre was part of the “small empire” of vice developed by the brothers Vanoli in late Victorian Ouray. The Ouray County Historical Society Evenings of History presentation next Tuesday (June 18) will look at artifacts from the Vanoli Block, and what it all means. (Courtesy photo)
The first Evenings of History lecture in Ouray next week will look at the Vanoli Block, Ouray’s historic red light district.
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)
Dancers will include a drum group from the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation south of Cortez, as well as the Azteca dance group from Montrose. Both groups will be dressed in full colorful regalia, altho...
JERRY JOSEPH AND THE JACKMORMONS (Courtesy photo)
Don Carlos will in fact make a highly anticipated stop at Fly Me to the Moon Saloon tonight.
WAYNE LEE won last year's Mark Fischer Poetry Award, and thus is the judge of this year's. The award will be given this Friday, June 14, at Arroyo Wine bar, where the four nominees will read from their work and a winner will be announced. (Courtesy photo)
Poets and musicians make every word and every note count.
Local live theater in Ouray is becoming a reality as the Wright Opera House project evolves, with a much fuller schedule planned this year including visiting troupes and energized local players.
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
Law enforcement officials in San Miguel County are searching for the whereabouts of 33-year-old Matthew Busker, who was reported missing on Monday. (Courtesy photo_

ALL AMERICA CITY MANAGER – Montrose City Manager Bill Bell flourished the award Sunday evening in Denver. Montrose was awarded the title of All America City this weekend. (Photo courtesy Scott Shine)
TELLURIDE ACADEMY STAFF – Gathered for a pre-season photo just prior to the Monday, June 10, launch of its 33rd Summer Season. (Courtesy photo)
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER – Trish Greenwood, Ridgway Elementary School’s new principal (here with husband Jim Nowak), is returning to the school where she began teaching, in 1989. (Courtesy photo)
HEALTHY FAWN – Leave them alone, even if they seem to be abandoned. They more-than-likely are not. (Photo courtesy of David Hannigan, Parks and Wildlife)
HIGH TIMES – The Gold Belt Theatre was part of the “small empire” of vice developed by the brothers Vanoli in late Victorian Ouray. The Ouray County Historical Society Evenings of History presentation next Tuesday (June 18) will look at artifacts from the Vanoli Block, and what it all means. (Courtesy photo)
BEN WAYNE LILLARD, 1957 - 2013
DIXIE KEITHLY, April 3, 1931 – June 9, 2013
