commentary
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...
The very last mistake that I ever thought I would make at my home was to be an unwitting provider to a young but timid black bear, two nights running last week.
But the excitement and awe of th...
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...
I say to hell with lemonade – bring on the hot chocolate, hot toddy, whatever. It’s the first week in May. Bone-chilling cold. It’s gray, a very dreary, gray. Cold fog hangs over the fields, maybe...
A significant challenge has been met. This week, Valley Floor Preservation Partners (VFPP) transferred to the Town of Telluride Open Space Fund $24,300,000 for the purpose of purchasing the Valle...
Just the other day I saw a load of folks hanging around the Free Box, including people in their trucks looking on, waiting for something to happen.
Word on the street is that it’s a hangout for ...
QUIET COMMOTION … If this group is making a ruckus, they’re doing so in service to a notion of quiet on our public lands. A raft of hikers, bikers, kayakers, hunters, anglers, and birders ...
Residents of Telluride are so preoccupied with the War of the Floor that we may scarcely notice that the residents of Mountain Village are on the verge of a civil war of their own. The flashpoint ...
TALKING GOURDS … Off season wasn’t completely off this past weekend, as Gourdsters from all over Colorado and New Mexico converged on Telluride for three days of hip-hop, slam, spoken word an...
The word on the street is the weather is weird.
What’s so weird about it, O Chicken Little?
What is weird about it was our series of late-season storms as wave upon wave of Pacific- -to-Jet-St...
This seems so obvious: The guy was psychotic. He was paranoid, delusional and agitated. The mystery is not why he decided to kill himself and take 32 people with him. Some people snap and become vi...
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
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By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
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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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