commentary
May 25, 2007 | 0 
| 3 
| 
| 3 |
The land was ours before we were the land's...
– Robert Frost
Back in the summer of 1971, I worked as a researcher down on the Navajo Reservation, commuting from Boulder and spen...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 |
It may seem an odd time of year for U.S. ski team news, but I couldn’t resist these items in the headlines recently. (The ski team is, in fact, beginning its summer training schedule this week ...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 11 |
| 11 |
TOM SHADYAC … While it took several thousand folks to make it happen, including Mayor John Pryor, town elders Phil and Linda Miller, Jane Hickcox’s fundraising crew, and second-homer Meg Whitman, ...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 |
Art Goodtimes
FORCED REMOVAL … It had been four days of conferencing, talking about oil and water, both the physical reality of those two fluids, but the larger metaphor of native and non-native, s...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 |
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...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |
The Telluride Town Council deserves a lot of credit for forging ahead with a consideration of “horizontal zoning” even in the face of strong opposition from main street property owners and even sk...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |
Jack Pera
First, a warning: This is not your ordinary election evaluation.
1) Voting is an exercise in futility.
So the Democrats won big. Thrilled? The gutless, worthless and hopeless political ...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 11 |
| 11 |
Those of us who favored the 91 percent compromise solution for preserving the bulk of the Valley Floor as preferable to proceeding with what we saw as a risky path of condemnation were absolutely ...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 |
Peter Shelton
It’s amazing what a difference a new administration makes.
I wish I were talking about Washington. But no, this is Denver we’re discussing. And the changes being put in place by a De...
May 25, 2007 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 |
Two weeks ago, the Watch reported on Ridgway’s latest attempt to clean up its act. Town council, noting the proliferation of vehicles with expired plates scattered around town, proposed a new, or r...
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)
local perspective
LOCAL PERSPECTIVE | City Mouse, Country Mouse
LOCAL PERSPECTIVE | Voters Say: Stay the Course
LOCAL PERSPECTIVE | One Region, Two Worldviews