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Goodtimes:Learning How to Monitor for Vegetative Regen After Salvage Timber Logging Sale in Norwood | Up Bear Creek
by Art Goodtimes
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
BURN CANYON … It was just five years ago that a disastrous fire raged through the wooded hills and canyons southwest of Norwood – July 9, 2002. The fire burned 31,300 acres of public and private ...
Schultheis:Amateur Night in London | Dispatches
by Rob Schultheis
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
In bullfighting lingo, there’s a word, espantaneo. It denotes a fan who, overcome with enthusiasm, leaps into the bull ring and attempts to fight the bull, with equivocal results. That’s what we we...
Herndon:Hog Ranch Controversy Takes Center Stage | Dateline Wright’s Mesa
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Grace Herndon The play’s title alone, Down At The Hog Ranch – A Historically-Based Play About Pigs in the Cathouse, was meant to catch our attention. But the production and its local historic under...
Schultheis:Rain Dancing Again | Dispatches
by Rob Schultheis
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
This is around the time of year when I find myself studying the clouds every afternoon, trying to measure the air temperature and every ghost of a breeze, hoping that a genuine storm cell will show...
Goodtimes:Weaving the County and Region Together | Up Bear Creek
by Art Goodtimes
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
COLLABORATION … A couple years ago I went just outside Ridgway to visit former San Miguel County Commissioner Gene Adams, after setting things up with Terry Adams who works for our county attorneys...
Pera:Dynamite and Heroes and Guilt Galore | Musings of a Mountainman
by Jack Pera
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
A DYNAMITE GUY: How many of us living in the Town of Telluride were jarred out of our slumber by the 6 a.m. explosions set off by the Telluride Volunteer Fire Department Wednesday, July 4? Our scor...
Nordham:Bad Joke At Parade | Guest Commentary
by Gretchen Nordham, M.A
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
We love Telluride, and so often fantasize about moving here for good. Over the past 10 years or so, my family and I have been coming to Telluride as often as possible. We live in Boulder and feel s...
Hunt:Forty-Eight Days and Counting | Hunt(ing) in Colorado
by Jeff Hunt
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Forty-eight days. That’s when the Colorado High School Activities Association sanctioned football season begins. For those who don’t want to grab the calendar and count that far ahead, that ...
McDaniel:Fireworks Display Goes Mercury in Retrograde: Bush, Cheney to Blame | Word on the Street
by Douglas McDaniel
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Word on the street is the finale for this year’s Fourth of July fireworks display went awry, but all eyewitness versions of this buzz bombing of Town Park are unreliable since even those who were m...
Pera:Have I Got a Job for You! | Musings of a Mountain Man
by Jack Pera
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Who has the best job in America? Notice I didn’t ask what the best job in America is, or who in America makes the most money per year. Making a lot of money and having a good job are two entirely d...
Herndon:Where Is Rumsfeld Now? | Dateline Wright’s Mesa
by Grace Herndon
Jul 08, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Lately, I’ve come across lots of news stories about George W’s new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. (Apparently no relation to Bill Gates.) Instead, R. Gates’s career has been all about the CIA,...

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