commentary
San Miguel is one of those counties and what sounds like an alarming statistic is, for our transient community, highly misleading.
The past becomes the present when a Sixties band plays Ouray.
The NFL is in complete chaos right now and there’s an easy fix to its woes: Bring back the regular NFL referees.
I like the never-quit style of Tampa Bay’s Greg Schiano. He makes the usually-tough Tom Caughlin look like a whining baby.
Ouray’s County Clerk says thank you to everyone who is working to get ready for the upcoming election.
“We want cupcakes!” my children chirp as they bound into the kitchen, breathless with anticipation. Welcome to instant-gratification nation.
In which the word “apprentice” sends the author down a career path, and into the arms of love.
Take this early-season IQ test to see how ready you are for the ski season to come.
Not to be over-dramatic, but this may be the last truly democratic election held in the United States.
After only one regular season game, NFL fans are quick to make overreactive predictions. Gus Jarvis is no different.
‘As goes Colorado, so will go the election,’ President Obama has said.
San Miguel County Commissioner Joan May urges readers to vote.
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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