commentary
After years of collecting over 1,100 acres of mining claims in the Ophir Valley, Pauls is ready to transfer the land to the U.S. Forest service.
There’s nothing quite as heartwarming as seeing your kid play with your friends’ kids in the same park all of you grew up in, on one of Telluride’s beautiful, summer evenings
Talking Gourds in Dolores LaChapelle’s ‘Chinese Mountains’…Rainbow Gathering Underway…and at long last, an explanation of the choice of moniker “Paleohippie”…
Will Manny “man up” following his 50-games suspension, or will he prove to be the Dodgers’ weakest link?
As columnist Peter Shelton finds out in this week’s View to the West, sometimes it’s a bitch to be right.
Norwood has received almost $50,000 in GOCO grants to fund a bike/skateboard park and for recreation district planning.
The ironies of power, experienced firsthand…The joys of water-birth…
New rules meant to govern appraisals could pressure appraisers into inflating home values.
A swine flu scare brings a young family to the emergency room. The resulting bill touches on an even more serious problem – heath care.
Watch columnist Grace Herndon remembers her visit to Tiananmen Square – and her Chinese hosts’ unusual reaction to being questioned about what happened there 20 years ago
The Rockies are now playing great baseball. How does a bench coach turned manager have such an impact on a team?
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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