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Herndon:Make Birding History. Get Trained By the Experts | Dateline Wright's Mesa
by Grace Herndon
Aug 01, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The big, black binoculars strapped to their chests are a dead giveaway. These folks are birders –all four of them. And they just happen to be friends of ours, so that’s how I keep up with what’s go...
Benda:‘Hush Up and Roll Up Telluride Needs Us All!’ | Guest Commentary
by Andrea Benda, Town of Telluride Councilmember
Aug 01, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
Hagemeyer:The Fun-draising Game Plan | Guest Commentary
by Dale Hagemeyer
Jul 30, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
In a previous article I outlined the background for the Secondary School Gym and Music Room fundraising initiative. Since the initiative includes lots of fun activities we should appropriately cal...
Shelton:O.J. Syndrome Afflicts Tour | View to the West
by Peter Shelton
Jul 30, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
On Wednesday evening, Randy and Jen Charrette opened their Peak to Peak Bicycles in Ridgway for a Tour Party. As in, Tour de France Party. Only it quickly turned into the Tour de France Doping Par...
Goodtimes:Blissing Out in the Shadow of Mount Lamborn | Up Bear Creek
by Art Goodtimes
Jul 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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 Mil...
Enough to change Town Council’s Impeach Vote? Letters From Around the Nation on Impeachment Initative | E-mails From Town’s Web Site
Jul 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
TELLURIDE – After the Town Council passed the first reading of the ordinance to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the Town of Telluride’s online comment box received ...
Hagemeyer:School Needs a ‘Place to Play’ | Guest Commentary
by Dale Hagemeyer
Jul 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Did you know that the new Ridgway Secondary School , inaugurated just over a year ago, doesn’t have a gymnasium or music room?   The new facility has been in use for a full school year n...
Mitchell:PCRs, SEMs, Double Helixes and Eight- Legged Wonders | Pinhead Notes From the Field
by Marlee Mitchell
Jul 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Deoxyribose, a simple construction of carbon and hydrogen molecules, held together by hydrogen bonds to create the double helix that holds the key to all life. Deoxyribose is the basic unit of DNA;...
Goodtimes:National Association of Counties Meets in Richmond, Virginia | Up Bear Creek
by Art Goodtimes
Jul 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
HILLARY CLINTON … The Dem frontrunner for the presidential nomination accepted an invitation from NACo and spoke before several thousand county commissioners at the organization’s annual summer con...
McDaniel:Folks, Be Nicer - Or | Word on the Street
by Douglas McDaniel
Jul 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Word on the street is ugly, especially when it comes to baseline of public discourse we reached after the little Town of Telluride raised its pirate flag over the Bush/Cheney impeachment debate. T...
Hodges:Bald Eagle Soars Off of Endangered Species List | Guest Commentary
by Will Hodges
Jul 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...

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