commentary
Swine flu scare may have been our pandemic warm-up, and its epicenter is what’s probably the world’s largest pig factory, with 900,000 pigs raised every year in the State of Vera Cruz, New Mexico. ...
After Cuban’s Mother’s Day debacle, we wonder: How about drug testing for team owners?
The clerk’s office reminds all vehicle owners to check their registrations and renew expired ones before July 1 to avoid penalties.
Columnist Peter Shelton stops to take a look around this off season and realizes that, well, there really is a lot going on.
What does Mom really want this year? Peace and quiet, so clear out of the house and go fish the caddis hatch on the Arkansas River.
Time marches on. Might as well get a new hip and stay in the parade.
Telski CEO Dave Riley observes how European ski resorts thrive.
For 15 years the Public Land Partnership has been creating a regional table of trust for a diverse bunch of stakeholders involved with the Uncompahgre National Forest.
One wingnut is holding Peter Shelton’s toilet seat together, and another is defending Bush policies – or maybe they’re one and the same.
Organizers are seeking volunteers and financial support to make the Ouray Farmers Market a reality this summer.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
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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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