commentary
Isn’t every New Year remarkable? For one thing, you get to celebrate another birthday (if you live that long). For another, you get to wipe the slate clean of everything that went wrong in the prev...
CHARLIE & CHRISTINE … It’s hard losing Charlie, one of those iconic personalities in the county, familiar in Telluride as well as Norwood, a fixture at Mountainfilm, a legend among climbers and a...
In his May 4, 2007, “Up Bear Creek” column, Art Goodtimes wrote that San Miguel Power Association may have done the right thing by choosing to extend its contract with Tri-State for 10 years. He ar...
Word on the street is people can now go walking on the Valley Floor.
But I was so busy writing up a bunch of words congratulating everyone about having saved the world in this “VF” matter – as wel...
TREATY OF RUBY VALLEY …If you thought Bush the Lesser was the only international laughingstock on the issue of human rights, rethink. You don’t know Carrie Dann. But thanks to the artistry and dedi...
MOVING TO TUESDAY … Friday’s op-ed page has gotten pretty crowded with columnists Jack Pera and Rob Schultheis moving to the Watch. Dean of local columnists Grace Herndon also makes an occasional a...
Valley Floor Fantasy
In my last column I exploded in a superb rant about the Town of Telluride’s refusal to consider preserving the pending newly acquired Valley Floor mostly (but not entirely) as...
JUCO, the Junior College World Series, just wrapped up its 50th annual tournament in Grand Junction . It’s an all-American festival: popcorn and peanuts and the seventh-inning stretch; sunbur...
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...
TREATY OF RUBY VALLEY …If you thought Bush the Lesser was the only international laughingstock on the issue of human rights, rethink. You don’t know Carrie Dann. But thanks to the artistry and dedi...
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
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By Rob Schultheis
photos

SAFETY FIRST – Surrounded by students, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill into law at Ouray School on Thursday afternoon that seeks to enhance school safety across Colorado by providing support at the state level to hire more school resource officers. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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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