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Coming to terms with the untimely demands of a toddler poses a psychological hurdle that all adults must someday clear.
Ouray County Public Health Agency Prepares for the Seasonal Flu and Expected Increase in H1N1 Flu
Enough with the Tim Tebow, Florida Gators Praise. The 62-3 routing of unranked Charleston Southern is unimpressive.
Is there a trick for catching those finicky fish at Silver Lake above Telluride?
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We would like to invite you to an honoring ceremony for wild horses to be led by Douglas Spotted Eagle of the Northern Cheyenne and Mel
Lonehill of the Lakota Nation on August 29...
Despite lack of product for harvest (not enough rain), this year’s Mushroom Festival took it to a new high, with do-it-yourself inoculated oyster mushroom growing kits at Tomten Farms…Two traffic s...
End-of-season looms for Norwood Farm and Craft Market – why not sign up for food preservation classes at CSU?
Another chapter in the saga of the Settlement of Disappointment Valley, by Alice Jane Watson.
John Fago steps down after 15 years of chronicling Telluride Film Festival – in black and white
TV game blackouts spell the beginning of the end of the NFL.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
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By Gus Jarvis
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By Rob Schultheis
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
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

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