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Overheard conversation: “Yeah, so we flew to Norwood from Hawaii and got started.”
We’re at Robin’s Nest, Norwood’s new main street eatery, and this is co-owner and chef Scott Dorf, talking to f...
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Most people here would like to forget the messy business a few years ago about banning books and the ever-so-slight whiff of “book burning.” But that odor, however slight, hangs over the Norwood S...
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A famous singer would be nice. Someone with enormous appeal across multiple generations. Someone who would do a benefit concert here in town. Ridgway isn’t a frequent stop on the concert circuit s...
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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 w...
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Counterfeit Colgate toothpaste containing diethylene glycol, a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze, recently turned up in discount grocery stores all over the East Coast.
This dangerous chemica...
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There certainly isn’t any shortage of information and the opinions that accompanies it these days.
The World Wide Web has revolutionized societal interaction and family communication on a scale n...
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As I realize more and more every day, Panama has as diverse a community of wildlife as anywhere on the world. In its narrow borders, you find thousands of species of migrating birds, some of the wo...
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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 ...
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As a captain with the Telluride Volunteer Fire Department I feel I must comment.
It has come to my attention that during a Segway tour a guide told his group in front of the Telluride Fire House ...
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With mixed feelings I announce today that I will not be running for a second term as Mayor of Telluride. My reasons are personal and involve the need and desire to spend more time with my family a...
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It was one of those perfect Ridgway summer evenings. Chicken sizzled on the grill, a light breeze rustled the cottonwoods, while we sat around an old wooden table in Bill Liske’s back yard. Over u...
raising elle
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By Gus Jarvis
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By Rob Schultheis
photos
RATS’ NEST – A rack of demo bikes at last year’s Ridgway Area Trails (RAT) Festival in Hartwell Park. This year’s 3rd annual will again feature trail building and skills clinics, along with a new Friday beer-and-shorts film night at the Sherbino Theater. (Courtesy photo)
VOLUNTEER Linda Granzow worked twine through spent round casings at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
WARRIOR WIND CHIMES – Welcome Home Montrose staff Emily Smith painted ceramic part of wind chimes at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
BACK HOME IN TELLURIDE – members of Telluride’s Volunteer Fire Department helped move the Galloping Goose No. 4 back to its home next to the San Miguel County Courthouse on May 16. The railbus spent the last four years in Ridgway while it was refurbished. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
ROBERT JUSTIS (Courtesy photo)
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