commentary
Free Mountain Village Sunset Concert Kicks Off 36th Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Old, hurt and interception prone, Brett Favre should retire (and forget about a Packers revenge).
Tennis is no longer a game of polite sportsmanship thanks to the Williams sisters.
A new Second Chance shelter is a goal, not a mission, says Executive Director Kelly Goodin.
It’s all over, Denver. So is my brief enjoyment of NBA basketball.
Since the Stonewall riots of ’69, the mainstreaming of gays in America has come a long way.
Columnist Art Goodtimes finds himself unlike other members of the Western Interstate Region Group.
Martinique Davis finds solace in this world of corporate agriculture by getting to work in her summer garden.
Michael Vick has paid his debt, and has the right to go back to work in the NFL
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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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