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Balance Comes to Oil and Gas Commission | View to the West
May 14, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Peter Shelton It’s amazing what a difference a new administration makes. I wish I were talking about Washington. But no, this is Denver we’re discussing. And the changes being put in place by a De...
For the Not-So-Bear-Aware
by Christopher Pike
May 14, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The very last mistake that I ever thought I would make at my home was to be an unwitting provider to a young but timid black bear, two nights running last week. But the excitement and awe of th...
View to the West: Remembering Civilized Healthcare
by Peter Shelton
May 14, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Little Cloe was about 10. She got a lot of ear infections as a child, and she caught a doozey that August while we were in France . We had swapped houses for the month with a French family w...
‘To Hell With Lemonade’ | Dateline Wright's Mesa
by Grace Herndon
May 10, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
I say to hell with lemonade – bring on the hot chocolate, hot toddy, whatever. It’s the first week in May. Bone-chilling cold. It’s gray, a very dreary, gray. Cold fog hangs over the fields, maybe...
An Amazing Chapter Closes | Guest Commentary
by The Valley Floor Preservation Partners
May 10, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
A significant challenge has been met. This week, Valley Floor Preservation Partners (VFPP) transferred to the Town of Telluride Open Space Fund $24,300,000 for the purpose of purchasing the Valle...
‘Free Box’ Is Just Another Term for ‘Nothing Left to Lose’ | Word on the Street
by Douglas McDaniel
May 10, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Just the other day I saw a load of folks hanging around the Free Box, including people in their trucks looking on, waiting for something to happen. Word on the street is that it’s a hangout for ...
A Coalition of Non-Motorized Recreationalists Meet in Glenwood to Discuss “Quiet Use” | Up Bear Creek
by Art Goodtimes
May 10, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
QUIET COMMOTION … If this group is making a ruckus, they’re doing so in service to a notion of quiet on our public lands. A raft of hikers, bikers, kayakers, hunters, anglers, and birders ...
The War in Mountain Village | Local Perspective
by Seth Cagin
Apr 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Residents of Telluride are so preoccupied with the War of the Floor that we may scarcely notice that the residents of Mountain Village are on the verge of a civil war of their own. The flashpoint ...
Celebrating National Poetry Month at the Sheridan | Up Bear Creek
by Art Goodtimes
Apr 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
TALKING GOURDS … Off season wasn’t completely off this past weekend, as Gourdsters from all over Colorado and New Mexico converged on Telluride for three days of hip-hop, slam, spoken word an...
On Watching the Sky Fall and Other Unscientific Observations | Word on the Street
by Douglas McDaniel
Apr 29, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The word on the street is the weather is weird. What’s so weird about it, O Chicken Little? What is weird about it was our series of late-season storms as wave upon wave of Pacific- -to-Jet-St...
It’s About the Guns | Local Perspective
by Seth Cagin
Apr 24, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
This seems so obvious: The guy was psychotic. He was paranoid, delusional and agitated. The mystery is not why he decided to kill himself and take 32 people with him. Some people snap and become vi...

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