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Pumpkin-carving takes on a whole new meaning when you’re doing it for the first time as a new mother.
Columnist Art Goodtimes takes a look at a piece of paper that is both amazing and humbling in this week’s Up Bear Creek.
Why is Denver’s defense flailing? Results are pending a Broncos Task Force investigation.
Business commentary, in Uganda, East Africa.
Research in genetically modified plants is going on at Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute in Kampala.
What more do you need? Peter Shelton sits down with the last undecided voter of Ouray County.
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We’ve all known that we couldn’t live like this forever, running up debt on a global scale, mortgaging the American future for who knows how many generations to come. Even thos...
Vote ‘Yes’ for Town of Telluride Ballot Question 202
So you’re a Town of Telluride citizen, and you’ve been bombarded with information from the ballot questions that want your tax money. Well, ...
Telluride Republican Mike Theile explains why he’s voting for Obama.
Four more years for Goodtimes as District Three San Miguel County Commissioner
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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)

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