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TOM SHADYAC … While it took several thousand folks to make it happen, including Mayor John Pryor, town elders Phil and Linda Miller, Jane Hickcox’s fundraising crew, and second-homer Meg Whitman, ...
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In the face of all of the advertising and letters stating that “voting yes on 2A will never raise your taxes,” as your Mayor, I simply have to be honest with you. Perhaps this perspective will be h...
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Ol’ Heraklitas was right, change is as inevitable as gravity and the cooling of the universe; but that doesn’t mean it’s always OK. In fact, sometimes it’s a damned shame. In this case, a classic T...
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Will the real environmentalists please stand up? Not all at once, please. I’m talking about the preservationist type, not those who practice conservation. Town of Telluride ballot question 2A asks ...
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View To The West By Peter Shelton
It may seem an odd time of year for U.S. ski team news, but I couldn’t resist these items in the headlines recently. (The ski team is, in fact, beginning its s...
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Those of us who favored the 91 percent compromise solution for preserving the bulk of the Valley Floor as preferable to proceeding with what we saw as a risky path of condemnation were absolutely ...
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The land was ours before we were the land's...
– Robert Frost
Back in the summer of 1971, I worked as a researcher down on the Navajo Reservation, commuting from Boulder and spen...
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The Telluride Town Council deserves a lot of credit for forging ahead with a consideration of “horizontal zoning” even in the face of strong opposition from main street property owners and even sk...
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I didn’t mind hearing my annoying alarm clock blaring at 2:30 Friday morning. Yes, I woke up the whole house, but they quickly went back to sleep while I prepped for my five-hour ride to Pueblo fo...
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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...
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
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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