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A trip to Telluride’s big-sister ski town brings some things into focus.
Same as it ever was. Or, at least, same as it has been for at least the last couple of decades.
The Telluride Town Council voted unanimously on Oct. 30, 2012, to adopt an update of the Telluride Cultural Master Plan originally adopted in 1996.
Any student between the ages of 14-19 who’s interested in applying to be on COYAC can find the application at www.coyac.org or contact me for information.
Does the presence of parents make sibling rivalry turn vicious?
Here are some really safe election predictions. Barack Obama will handily win San Miguel County. Mitt Romney will take Montrose by a landslide. Ouray County will be split.
For the record books, the Giants’ run to the World Series was historic. For me, the World Series was a drag.
The turncoats in the USPS doping mess should be called out as well.
Our governments’ recent unanimous decision to approve a settlement agreement regarding a pending application the Pinion Ridge Uranium Processing Mill came as quite a surprise.
Dirty pool: Because there really is no space to Art's left, which is to say to his environmentalist side, for his opponents to occupy, they cobble together lies about him.
'If all of the BOCC work over the last four years was actually bad for the local economy, why then are there two new major mining investments going on?'
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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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