letters to the editor
Editor:
On Tuesday evening, I attended the Montrose Community Foundation grant award ceremony at Holiday Inn Express. The room was filled with the finest people from our community. The Foundation p...
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I keep waiting for someone to bring this up but as I haven't seen it anywhere in the discussions of the shopping bag ban, I am diving in. If we ban plastic bags and put a surcharge on paper...
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Last week’s Guest Commentary from the Ouray County Board of Commissioners regarding the Verizon Tower was submitted “in an effort to make the facts available and allow citizens to form thei...
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We have not experienced an economy like this since the Great Depression. There is nationwide and countywide fear because of unemployment. People are displaced, record number of foreclosur...
I would like to express my deepest thanks for the community support of the Telluride Snowboard World Cup.
One Telluride would like to extend a thank you to all those that made our Noel Night.
You have excellent programming at the Palm. Use it or lose it.
If the airport were to extend operations from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. they would be adding 180 days more of operations that could use these extended hours.
We have watched the Verizon Tower developments with interest, concern, and now, distress, as the seemingly unthinkable appears to approach reality.
I encourage our commissioners to hold public hearings to discuss our right of eminent domain.
Thanks to the generosity of KOTO...
The assistance from TAR is greatly appreciated and one of the wonderful benefits of living in this town.
I would like to thank everyone who registered to be a bone marrow donor this past weekend. It will be a few weeks before we know if anyone is a good match for 6-year-old Max Scheutz.
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I would like to thank the Ah Haa School, Between the Covers, Telluride Elementary School, The Mountain School, Taste Buds Catering, and The Hotel Columbia...
To the editor:
The Telluride Mountain Village Tennis Club wishes to thank the Mount Village Owners Association for their support in helping to make our 2010 tennis season successful. Their monetar...
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Thank you for making the 2010 General Election a huge success. San Miguel County has 4,408 active registered voters. Of those electors, 2,444 requested a mail-in ballot and our office re...
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I want to extend a great big thank you for all those in the community that helped make the Mt. Sneffels Education Foundation Auction an amazing success this year. In these difficult econom...
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By all accounts Michael Bennet is a solid, centrist Democrat, helping support and nurture Colorado: the diversity of healthy Coloradans, communities and beautiful mountains.
Ken Buck seems...
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County Coroner Bob Dempsey did not seek the unpaid job when he was asked in 1981 by the County Commissioners to take the job. He reluctantly accepted because the community needed it, and n...
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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
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)
