commentary
The future of Broncoland is uncertain, but the new draft picks offer a glimmer of hope for the devoted.
The Norwood community is faced with hard questions about youth alcohol abuse following a fatal car accident.
The harmonious sounds of the valley surrounding Colona were temporarily, and mysteriously, invaded by the caustic acoustics of America’s so-called “truth detector.”
Local clinics must treat a wide range of traumatic injuries with often limited resources. The Rural Trauma Team Development Course helps prepare medical staff for the unknown.
Before the rivers get too big and dirty, the clock is ticking to get out and wet the line.
Just how much do avi beacons and probes help? … Aspen Institute’s Amory Lovins gets top honors from Rolling Stone …Coal mines get an even blacker eye…
More Goodtimes on learning to ski – the same year he becomes eligible for Social Security.
Columnist Peter Shelton contemplates the circumstances of just why the French want Lance Armstrong’s head at any price.
Goodtimes takes to the Sound of Music – and takes another ski lesson.
Columnist Peter Shelton isn’t ready to hang up his skis for the season, even if he has to take a chopper ride to reach the snow.
Goodtimes takes to the Sound of Music – and takes another ski lesson.
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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