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Nebraska-headquartered Cabela’s to open 75,000 square-foot store in Grand Junction’s Mesa Mall…Mountain Village’s Inn at Lost Creek Offers a ‘Priority Promotion’ (20 Percent Discounts for Nearby Ne...
A new Telluride Film Commission hopes that its target industry will help fill in the economic void left behind by real estate and development
Nebraska-headquartered Cabela’s to open 75,000 square-foot store in Grand Junction’s Mesa Mall.
After a Sept. 16 Ridgway Town Council work session, a task force has been formed to address the use of temporary business signage and will hold its first meeting on Nov. 3.
Ridgway voters will be asked next April if the town should redirect the remaining half of its collected lodging tax revenues to the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce.
Don Swartz, D.D.S and David Lurye D.D.S (Photo by Cecily Bryson)
Dr. David Lurye, current president of the Colorado Dental Association, joins Ridgway’s Dr. Don Swartz.

UNIQUELY PERSONAL SENIOR PHOTOS, like this one of Ridgway High School senior Samantha Willits, are photographer Rich Durnan’s specialty. (Courtesy photo)
Ridgway photographer Rich Durnan wants to make graduation photos a special and unique experience, by capturing everything that the senior is about.
(Photo by Beverly Corbell)
Montrose fire ruled accidental.
John Honemann steps up to plate as new GM of Black Canyon Jet Center FBO.
ANYTIME FITNESS Manager Shawn Wentz (right) with member Karl Leuthauser, will open a new group exercise studio in early October that will show videos of many types of fitness classes on a large screen which, like the club, can be accessed 24 hours a day. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
Now you can work out any time, day or night, at Anytime Fitness, in Montrose.
A new billing system and call center at SourceGas is meant to improve customer service.
The rural cooperative San Miguel Power Association has received a third place award for safety from the Colorado Rural Electric Association.
To provide better service, San Miguel Power will now keep its doors open five days a week on an alternating schedule between Ridgway and Nucla.
Investigation results will be released in a few more weeks.
On top of a national recession, the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce plans to address some issues facing the business community with members of town council at a workshop on Sept. 16.
If Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning receives a state grant, loans to small businesses in six Western Slope counties will be available.
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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)

