commentary
When 4-year-old Elle wrote, “I like eating lettuce,” her mother knew a bridge had been crossed.
The underappreciated land of the afternoon nap.
Refereeing a football game at any level is hard but it isn’t rocket science.
OK, honey, let’s make this a real “adventure” TV show. Throw a few kids into the mix, and take a family vacation.
I think the town of Telluride is to be commended for holding on to this remnant of the “wild” prairie.
Despite the message on campaign signs, politicians are not all bad.
Schultheis roars back, writing about drivers of “those grotesque ‘recreational’ sarcophagi on wheels we see on the highways these days,” and about the Republican Party’s efforts to squelch the Afri...
Lance Armstrong is giving up the fight to protect his legacy, while Roger Clemens just won’t quit his fight to protect his legacy.
In the fall of 2008, the world economy underwent a severe downturn, the likes of which we have not experienced as a nation since the Great Depression. Paul Reich explains how this fact has adversel...
‘Some bears, no doubt, must be killed. But many of these incidents can be avoided if people used some common sense.’
The Augusta National Golf Club is exclusive, and only a few are allowed in. It’s been that way for the last 80 years, and will always be that way, despite a recent decision to allow women to join.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
photos
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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