commentary
Roz Savage publicizes Pacific’s Plastic Garbage Patch… Goodtimes’s idea for converting Nucla’s coal plant to bio-diesel…
Belly scars serve to remind us of the growing trend of the economization of childbirth.
Telluride region resident Robert M. Hamburger, a futures trader, ruminates on financial security and real estate.
The trickle-down theory didn’t work with capital excesses for the rich, but it sure works with the lack thereof.
The MV Town Council will consider changing rules governing the town’s parking facilities at their February meeting.
Evidence is no proof of wrongdoing. Deny ’til you die, says columnist Gus Jarvis.
Keep your friends close, and your friends with cameras closer.
Columnist Art Goodtimes runs the gamut of laws that will affect San Miguel County in this week’s Up Bear Creek.
‘If you haven’t crawled under your kitchen table lately, you really should’ and other lessons from parenting a newly ambulatory toddler.
Since when do teams have to apologize for winning big? Coaches should prepare for more regulations in high school sports.
Hollywood has yet to catch up with the optimism of the times ushered in with President Obama.
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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