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It’s a grim reality that all-too-often these days we must witness the worst aspects human nature in order to see the best.
Would you believe it was actually a politician who started Earth Day?
A big spring snowstorm right after the ski area closes? It’s par for the course.
Aaron Abeyta Named Western Slope Poet Laureate in Carbondale Festival
The New York Knicks, sadly, are our only hope for keeping the Heat from reaching the NBA Finals.
Colorado, Denver, the Pike’s Peak Region, San Miguel County – many regions and jurisdictions have begun honoring poets by naming them to the honorary position of poet laureate.
A new study supports what my daughter already knows: Marriage is good for families.
There’s no hope of the Rockies being any good this year, which gives me hope.
Easter Sunday corn snow creates a youthful resurgence.
On March 26, representatives from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment and Idarado Mining Company presented results of remedial measures implemented as a result of a 1983 St...
Thunder River Theatre’s Valerie Haugen has organized a poetry festival in Karen Chamberlain’s name, and elicited help from a lot of poets familiar to San Miguel County, including yours truly.
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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