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Everyone has had a nice break after a terrific summer of music and activities. The mountain has opened with some turns on Misty Maiden with hopes of more slopes opening soon! The crew is back and ready to serve up some tastey morsels. The BBQ honey chipotle chicken wings really hit the spot af...
Okay...let's do the score card here. Obama is pretty much a failure and Hillary is out. Bachman is like some robot with a titanium spine who uses Rave #5 hair spray, Cain is cool but has an economic plan (999) that is the mark of the beast standing on its head doing yoga and eating hot pizza del...
After a wonderful summer with some terrific music, good outdoor activities and fun parties, we are closing for about a month. We will reopen in November a week before Thanksgiving. Work up an appetite for turkey and plenty of snowy weather!
Real
Estate News
Largest Decline in Home Ownership Since Great Depression
October
14, 2011
Many of us have parents and grandparents who
lived through The Great Depression. It might do us well to tune into those
times and see how our current situation fares in comparison.
During the 1930...
The leaves are rapidly changing after the past few cold nights that left a little frost on the punkin! There have been some lucky couples tying the knot the past few weekends. What a superb time of year for this! The fall soccer leagues are wrapping up the season with some futbol in the down vall...
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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
TROUT LAKE is currently being drained in order for Xcel Energy, which owns the recreational area, to complete work on the output of the lake’s dam. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)
