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Deceased Freeskier Shane McConkey may not be the best of all time but he deserves to be in the lineup of skiing greats.
Ouray Republican Party Chair Dave Hamilton addresses Colorado Senator Michael Bennet and Obama’s healthcare proposal in a public letter.
With Drama Players Favre, Vick Back in the Game, It’s Shaping Up to Be a Must-See Television Season
The 29th Telluride Mushroom Festival rolls into town – and with it, predictions for much-needed rain. This year’s theme is ethnomycology, the study of how different civilizations around the world u...
A West End resident with a Ph.D. in geology weighs in against the Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill application.
It’s the 29th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival, with, sadly, loving memories of John Corbin.
Babies in triplicate – Elle and Mom visit the Second Chance Humane Society.
Columnist Peter Shelton ponders an emergency ban on evolving technology in the world’s most popular boring sport.
Seeing the West by RV can be an amazing experience, especially once you name your RV. Columnist Peter Shelton provides just a few tips on achieving the experience in this week’s View to the West.
Find serenity on the San Miguel River.
Camping, hiking, trekking and reading poetry at the incomparable Shi Shi, on the northwestern tip of the Olympic National Park.
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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