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A shared bedroom means less sleep but more together-time with Baby Elle.
Will Michael Vick go back to the NFL?
Commissioner Goodtimes on the West-Wide Energy Corridors lawsuit joined in on by San Miguel County, and reports on his time at this year’s Rainbow Celebration (hello, Pastor Chuck Parry) and its ab...
Telluride Climbs to Conquer Cancer for Second Year Saturday, Aug. 8, 8 a.m., in Elks Park. Start a Team or Join Up Now.
Columnist Peter Bleepin’ Shelton takes a look at the science behind we all love to bleepin’ do in this week’s View to the West.
Super Joe Sakic hangs up his skates, and the team must work to establish a post-Sakic identity.
A bad case of “Ahma”
Up Bear Creek
ASIAN ADVENTURES … Burma [Myamar] was really awesome. I was a little conflicted about going to a country with an oppressive government that shoots monks and shuts schools to prevent...
When baby makes three, the family dog goes down a notch in the world.

TABLETOP EXCERCISE – Ouray City Manager Patrick Rondinelli (third from left) and Ouray County Sheriff Dominic “Junior” Mattivi (second from left) discuss evacuation issues as Ouray Police Chief Leo Rasmusson (far left) ponders the next step with Ridgway Town Manager Greg Clifton (second from right). Durango Fire Division Chief Mark Quick (far right) obtains a local weather report. (Courtesy photo)
A table top training exercise brings together Ouray County emergency responders, managers, administrators and other officials.
Columnist Peter Shelton hope that NPR will soon prove that its ‘death of conscience’ was somehow exaggerated.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
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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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