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BUTCHER AND BAKER – Megan Ossola (with the cleaver) and Cinda Simons (with the whisk) at their popular new main street location. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
The all-new main street go-to place is the Butcher and the Baker, with Megan Ossola (butcher) and Cinda Simons (baker) is a Telluride institution in the making.
Ridgway’s Mac Doctor, John Clark can help you with your computer troubles, teach you new skills, and open your world to iTunes, iPhoto, and wide world of social networking.
Chef Ross Martin advances the notion of a local cuisine.
Work-flow processing mandate upgraded by Colorado Department of Revenue will ‘affect citizens’ business with the local Clerk and Recorder’s office, says San Miguel County Clerk and Recorder Peggy N...
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.
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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)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)
