commentary
Since the Valley Floor fundraising success there is a different buzz in town. Have you felt it? It’s like a longtime logjam that suddenly let loose and the river’s balance has been found again. Be...
If you scan the news carefully, you can find the damnedest things: like the fact that the U.S. just took another giant step toward declaring war on Iran.
Over the past week or so, a variety of civ...
JOE GOODE … The renowned choreographer director premiered his new dance piece, Humansville, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (my hometown) with his award-winning performance ...
Saturday was the first hot day of summer. I don’t know exactly how hot because our thermometer exaggerates in the afternoon this time of year. It was in the nineties, though. Hot enough.
Mind y...
Saturday was the first hot day of summer. I don’t know exactly how hot because our thermometer exaggerates in the afternoon this time of year. It was in the nineties, though. Hot enough.
Mind yo...
Grace Herndon
After all these years, I figured our relationship with the Denver Post was solid. Here at the ranch, we’ve been subscribers since probably the early 1950s. Then last week we received ...
JOE GOODE … The renowned choreographer director premiered his new dance piece, Humansville, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (my hometown) with his award-winning performance ...
Isn’t the Telluride Valley glorious in late spring when the aspens have first leafed out and you drive into the valley about 8 a.m. when the light is so dynamic? The terrific shadows that highlight...
Word on the street is Telluride is one of the best places to get into law school.
Not at Harvard. Not even Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law, where graduate Monica Goodling, now a se...
I’ve been going out to the canyon country for over thirty years, since I first moved to Telluride; as soon as I discovered how close we were to the slickrock mazes, mysterious slots and lost alcove...
MOVING TO TUESDAY … Friday’s op-ed page has gotten pretty crowded with columnists Jack Pera and Rob Schultheis moving to the Watch. Dean of local columnists Grace Herndon also makes an occasional a...
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
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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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