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The New Community Coalition offers a new Green Business Roundtable program tailored to meet the needs of Telluride’s businesses.
The New Community Coalition offers a new Green Business Roundtable program tailored to meet the needs of Telluride’s businesses.
WINTER GARDENING – Scotty Abrahams tends to his indoor garden of basil at Telluride Hydroponics and Organics in Ilium. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
Scotty Abrahams specializes in year-round growing of indoor edibles with ‘minimal energy consumption’ and in very small spaces
Food Service Director Michael Krull is cooking innovative and affordable dishes at Montrose Memorial Hospital’s Lobby Grille, for which he is developing a steady and enthusiastic clientele.
The Peaks is the official “host hotel” for Feb. 20-27 Telluride Gay Ski Week…Paul Zabel is back in the property management and resort accommodations business, as the new CEO at Elevation Vacations.
Fate of city-funded Montrose Chamber, the Visitors and Convention Bureau and the Montrose Area Merchants Association to be decided by committee of their peers.
New website is user-friendly and improves the flow of information the community needs.
Alchemy Hospitality Group, the new operator and manager of the Telluride Conference Center, seeks to vitalize region’s largest meeting facility.
DEVELOPING DOWNTOWN — While some new storefronts are opening, many more empty buildings plague downtown Montrose. A Downtown Development Authority is being proposed to bring long-term funding and stability to the downtown area by forming a new downtown district. Property owners in the proposed district will vote on the issue on April 6. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
Voters will decide on the future of Main Street.
Wilkinson Library does it again – wins prestigious Five-Star Library Journal Index classification!

SWEET WORK - Heidi Kremeier dipped a batch of caramels into a bath of creamy chocolate Tuesday afternoon. Mouse's Chocolate Shop will have a booth at the Ouray Ice Festival Friday through Sunday selling Belgian hot chocolate, its own roasted coffee and house brewed chai. Sweet! (Photo by Gus Jarvis)
‘It’s nice to create something that makes people so happy.’
Outfit teaches everyone from 6-year-olds to 75-year-old grandmas on the ice.
While Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce members have approved a possible merger with the Ouray Chamber Resort Association, OCRA’s members have not yet been heard.
Boas, Hermes Belts and other collectables can be found with the help of Harley Brooke-Hitching.
VINTAGE VAMPING – Harley
Brooke-Hitching modeling the
pink feather boa cape she wore
“with hot-pants” in 60s-and-
70s London. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
Boas, Hermes Belts and other collectables can be found with the help of Harley Brooke-Hitching.
Ridgway’s chamber will discuss forming a new nonprofit sub-organization that can go after economic development grants.
The pub will be like a living room for the town while the chop house will be serving steaks ‘as big as your head.’
Outside brand and RSN will compliment each other with launch of new network next June.
By merging at one location, Mountain Fever Shirts and Gifts and Rocky Mountain Treasures will carry a wider selection of unique gifts.
Rocky Mountain Energy Conservation optimizes gas appliances for life at high altitude; saving money, reducing the carbon footprint, lengthening appliance life span, and eliminating harmful carbon m...
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RATS’ NEST – A rack of demo bikes at last year’s Ridgway Area Trails (RAT) Festival in Hartwell Park. This year’s 3rd annual will again feature trail building and skills clinics, along with a new Friday beer-and-shorts film night at the Sherbino Theater. (Courtesy photo)
VOLUNTEER Linda Granzow worked twine through spent round casings at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
WARRIOR WIND CHIMES – Welcome Home Montrose staff Emily Smith painted ceramic part of wind chimes at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
BACK HOME IN TELLURIDE – members of Telluride’s Volunteer Fire Department helped move the Galloping Goose No. 4 back to its home next to the San Miguel County Courthouse on May 16. The railbus spent the last four years in Ridgway while it was refurbished. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)

ROBERT JUSTIS (Courtesy photo)
