commentary
A chance encounter with a bear’s skull prompts a case of the shivers.
In the face of the return of uranium mining and milling, rock climbers unite to preserve Paradox Valley.
Prepare, everyone. The next installment of Rocktober is just around the corner. I hope it will be a good one.
With Salazars and Sherman, San Miguel County residents have friends in D.C. ... Does cannabis inhibit cancer?.
Columnist Martinique Davis likens herself to Augustus Gloop at Wonka’s chocolate river when she visits the weekly farmer’s market in Telluride.
Telluride Realtor George Harvey weighs in on the importance of second homeowners.
The Christian right wing’s ‘funding angel’ Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Jr. – odd, even at the age of eleven.
Manchild in Chicagoland: Jay Cutler plays true to form.
The crowds are off hunting, so it’s a great time for anglers to find solitude at area lakes and streams. And the fish are biting, too.
San Miguel County will not leave Montrose County alone when it comes to the Pinon Ridge Mill.
Shelton reflects on Montrose County before the water came.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
photos
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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