commentary
It remains to be seen how well Brady Quinn will play for the Broncos but one this is for sure: Quinn will make for a better backup than Chris Simms.
An homage to Peter Brinkman, charismatic ski school leader who died young, at 74.
In this week’s Up Bear Creek: A restaurant name correction, a review of books, a call for recognition of Liu Xiao-bo, Leonard Peltier, and those murdered at Wounded Knee.
With college football changing at a rapid rate, is Notre Dame at risk of falling behind into oblivion?
If only we could choose which of our parents’ traits to inherit.
The Oscar and The Killer Whale
Field notes from a poetry conference in Mexico.
The list of everything John Daly has done is three times as long as Tiger Woods’ list, yet I can’t help to like Daly and dislike Woods.
Judy Shepard comes to Gay Ski Week with one message: Erase Hate.
Early-morning visitors shake up the routine, but when everything settles down, coffee is made (and the miscreants are caught), several favorite movies have been revisited
The Tao of T’ang Poetry that remains pertinent through the millennia…
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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