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The word on the street is silent as the wind, or a ghost, or, no, better yet, a zombie.
This is not to diminish in any way the high art of carpentry, but its 6 a.m. in the Mountain Village, and wh...
I remember as an elementary student, to see a bald eagle, we would walk from the yellow brick school in the west end of Aspen through the gate and down the dirt path to Hallam Lake where the Aspen ...
My summer Pinhead Internship had officially started as I flew over the shallow turquoise waters from Nassau to the small outer island of San Salvador. San Salvador is the very first place that Chri...
DREAMTIME … Want to dream the future? Then mark your mid-July calendar next summer for the annual gathering of the New Age clans on Rodgers Mesa outside Paonia … www.dreamthefuture.org …
Tara Mill...
State-owned bridges are inspected every other year. However, bridges that are in poor condition or cause concern are inspected more frequently.
There is a rating system for bridges used nationwide...
CORNET CREEK … A disaster waiting to happen. I remember going on a tour with a state group of engineers a few years back looking at natural hazards in the region. When they came to Telluride, they ...
Telluride hyped itself as “The Town Without a Bellyache” not so long ago.
What’s happened? Two weeks ago Mayor John Pryor read the midyear State of the Town address, emphasizing our collective s...
Some solid facts and different value systems applied to them:
1. The Bushites’ decision to attack Iraq was supposedly a response to 9/11. In actuality it was a perfect excuse for other reasons,...
By Maria Osterhaus, Public Health Intern, San Miguel County Public Health Nursing Service, and Dr. David Homer, Public Health Officer
Pandemic flu will happen sooner or later. Though experts canno...
In my column last week I outlined why the U. S. invasion, occupation and destruction of the country of Iraq was illegal and immoral. How so? The excuse primarily being an incident forever known as ...
My summer Pinhead Internship had officially started as I flew over the shallow turquoise waters from Nassau to the small outer island of San Salvador. San Salvador is the very first place that Chri...
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
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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)

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