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STILL CLOSED — JetAway Aviation's building just north of Montrose Regional Airport has been inactive for months due to legal wranglings with Montrose County, but its antitrust lawsuit against the county is still active. (File photo)
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Federal judge allows JetAway ‘limited discovery’ to prove antitrust case against county.
The Historic Wright Opera House (Courtesy photo)
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The proposed purchase of Ouray’s Wright Opera House is another step closer to reality.
CATCHING SOME AIR on the Mwave near Montrose. (Photo by Anjin Herndon)
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Twelve-year-old Telluride Kayak outfitter now offers stand-up paddle lessons and a popular youth program.
GREAT HARVEST – The natural-foods franchise, featuring fresh-baked whole-grain breads, now has a bakery in the historic Missouri Building, at 347 Main St., in Montrose. (Photo by Dale Kondracki)
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An outpost in natural-foods movement has opened its doors in the historic Missouri Building, on Main Street.
ENDANGERED SAWMILL — Work continues at Intermountain Resources, the biggest sawmill on the Western Slope, which is being held in receivership by Cordes & Co., but how long it can hold on depends on many factors. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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Trustee Wants to See Sawmill Up and Running Full Steam
HAND-WOVEN – Two tradition rugs, made by Valley of a Thousand Hills, are on display at Palladin in Ridgway. Conan Brooks, co-owner of the organization, will be hosting nightly lectures in Telluride during a three-day sale event, July 9-11. (Photo by Gus Jarvis)
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Ridgway-based Palladin will be hosting a three-day event centered around beautiful hand woven rugs.
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RACC offers ribbon cuttings, deals on membership…Equine Therapy From Olga Spanhoff and Susannah Smith…Mountain Village Hotel Project Comes Under Review Thursday
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Ridgway store Sunrise Southwest carries work of wide variety of regional artists.
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KemperSports to Manage Cornerstone Club (and its 18-hole Greg Norman designed golf course)
CHILLIN’ OUT — Kiley Nicholas holds a popsicle in the window of her new business, Chill Out Ice Cream. Nicholas couldn’t find a summer job, so the Olathe High senior decided to start her own business to raise money for college. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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Olathe High senior Kiley Nicholas sells ice cream and candy from her own truck to raise money for college
MAIN STREET OFFICE – Colorado Mountain Property, Inc. owner Michael Underwood (left) and office
manager Jen Mitchell (right) at their new office in Ouray’s Beaumont Hotel. (Photo by Gus Jarvis)
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With the opening of Colorado Mountain Property, Inc., Michael Underwood now offers a variety of services from buying to selling to vacation rentals in one, Main Street Ouray office.
STICKING POINTS — Deborah Thompson of the recently opened Nu You Acupuncture and Massage Clinic holds up some of the acupuncture needles she uses which can range from one to about five inches long. Thompson wants to allay fears some have about acupuncture, which she says can treat many ailments and really doesn't hurt. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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Practiced for 4,000 years in China, acupuncture is slowly gaining acceptance in conservative Montrose.
Longtime local Kenny Rosen – The new owner of the Cornerhouse bar and grill. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Kenny Rosen, of the Sweet Life dynasty, to roll out new specials and cheap drinks at “The House” this summer.
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Telluride’s Honga Im and Lucas Price discussed their green-minded restaurants at this month’s Green Business Round Table.
MAINTAIN YOUR RIDE – Ridgway’s Peak to Peak Bicycles (shop owner Randy Charrette pictured) is offering a free bicycle maintenance clinic this Friday, May 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. Learn how change a flat, fix your brakes, adjust your derailleur when it skips cog, and other valuable tips from the experts. It’s a bicycle season celebration of sorts, with appetizers, Colorado Boy brews (donations appreciated) and shopping discounts. And for the month May, Peak to Peak is donating 10 percent of its bike sales to help fund Ridgway’s Pickin’ in the Park summer concert series. For more information, call 626-3177. (Photo by Gus Jarvis)
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City of Ouray hosts three summer cycling events, starting with Ride the Rockies on June 25
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RIDGWAY – Lorimer Network Research has donated funds to the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce to cover the purchase of a new tile floor for the Ridgway Visitors Center. The tile will be purchased f...
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Commissioners believe current definition of mineral operation takes away their Special Use Permit authority if the operation has less than one acre of surface disturbance.
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Clark’s Market owner tells council that if he doesn’t receive a vested right extension, he won’t go through the expensive approval process again.
WHAT ABOUT MAMA? – About 30 people joined in a town hall-style discussion with the board of the Montrose Area Merchants Association on Monday. The 1,700 member group is trying to decide whether to dissolve or regroup now that city funding has dried up. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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City attorney says MAMA still owes the city $60K.
SEASON’S HARVEST PROPRIETOR Melissa Johnson has cut out everything “extracurricular” to keep the store open. (Photo by Cecily Bryson)
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Sign of the times: With community backing, Ridgway’s Season’s Harvest Natural Foods is one step closer to becoming a cooperative.
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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)