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Wes Perrin, who deserves a big thank you from this entire region of Southwestern Colorado, is truly one of our alternative energy pioneers in Colorado.
In which the author remembers an early mountaineering race across the Alps.
Reading the Dove Creek Press...
Former San Miguel County Commissioner writes, “It is greatly to the town's benefit and probably their legal responsibility to insure that lift 8 and the Telluride Trail are open as they have tradit...
This particular clash between the New West and the Old ended without real resolution.
From his early years as cofounder of Seeds of Change, Kenny Ausubel has been working to show us how we can learn from examples in nature to thrive as humans.
In these days of budget woes, SMARTS Park ‘an essential public service’
Cutting wrestling from the Olympics is a stupid, stupid idea.
District 59 Rep. Mike McLachlan writes: “Overwhelmingly, my constituents and many others have been distressed about my votes in favor of expanded background check for firearms and magazine limitati...
The Old West and the New collided on South Cora Street three decades ago.
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
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

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