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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...
Statistics unveiled at the Telluride Tourism Board’s annual meeting last week suggest hope for winter economy.
The Temporary Signage Task Force, after meeting twice, is recommending some ordinance changes that would allow business in Ridgway to use temporary, sandwich-style signs for advertising purposes.
Left in the cold with the closing of the Farmers Market, Montrose artists and artisans form a cooperative on main street
Telluride Gymnastics’ expansive new Lawson Hill home provides more gymnastics, fitness training for local athletes.

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Philip Stein’s line of Natural Frequency watches and bracelets, available at Telluride’s Dolce Jewels, can help wearers sleep more soundly.
Telluride Tourism Board hires Denver-based Kruzic Communications for public relations…MayaAir boasts cleanest air, inside and out, among TurboPropo Renaissance Commanders on the Western Slope…
Contract with supplier cuts out middleman.
The Telluride Tourism Board will present its plans for the next year at its annual meeting on Thursday, Dec. 10.

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For centuries, artists and architects have had to use extensive mathematic calculations to find the Golden Mean of an object or image. A new tool, invented in Montrose, makes it simple.
A high vacancy rate on Main Street inspires effort to make the business district more vibrant.
Brent Truax (Photo by Seth Cagin)
Local owners and a new management company promise to bring business back to The Peaks.
New Leaf brings spirit of the season to local homes and businesses with modern, organic design style.
American National Bank’s Telluride branch Sam Burgess named ‘Employee of the Quarter’…Telluride/Montrose Regional Air Organization says bookings are up 12 percent over last year, with more flights…...

SMOKIN’ BARBECUE – Chefs Jack Tucker (left) and Adrian Musgrove (right) are smoking brisket, pork, sausage, chicken, and ribs at the Welded Elephant on Sherman Street in Ridgway. Oh yeah, they also have hot breakfast burritos for those looking to strike their hunger on their morning commute. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
With a Cajun flair, the Welded Elephant in Ridgway has the freshest apple-wood smoked brisket, pork, chicken, and sausage for those who want to pick it up and take it home and for those who want to...
Despite an uptick in local real estate activity, brokers are at best cautiously optimistic.

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Telluride’s newest chiropractor, Kristyn Shumway of Motion Back and Body Center, provides five different therapies for holistic, fast recoveries.
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
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
