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NUMBER 17 ... Paul Major of the Telluride Foundation was in attendance for a morning panel discussion on building social capital at Western State’s 17th annual Headwaters Conference in Gunnison las...
Peter Shelton
Since 50 is the new 40 and March is the new May, I guess it’s only natural that Halloween become the new beginning of the Christmas season.
Judging by the gift catalogues we’ve been ...
Isn’t every New Year remarkable? For one thing, you get to celebrate another birthday (if you live that long). For another, you get to wipe the slate clean of everything that went wrong in the prev...
Living in the San Juans, it is easy to become unimpressed with other mountains. Nestled in the box canyon at the San Miguel headwaters, Telluriders sleep at almost 9,000 feet and wake up surrounded...
“Where there is no vision, the people peris h.” –Ezekiel
It was inevitable, I think, that the deathblow to the American Idyll would be self-inflicted. What possible enemy, aside from ourselves, wa...
The election is over and the result is conclusive: If one political party rules our government, corruption runs amok (power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely). Although far from having a...
Two weeks ago, the Watch reported on Ridgway’s latest attempt to clean up its act. Town council, noting the proliferation of vehicles with expired plates scattered around town, proposed a new, or ...
Little Cloe was about 10. She got a lot of ear infections as a child, and she caught a doozey that August while we were in France .
We had swapped houses for the month with a French family wh...
The very last mistake that I ever thought I would make at my home was to be an unwitting provider to a young but timid black bear, two nights running last week. But the excitement and awe of the...
Rob Schultheis
Hopefully, by the time you read this, the elections will be over and the Right Side will have won. The big question, of course, is if control of Congress changed hands, and if light ...
The land was ours before we were the land's...
– Robert Frost
Back in the summer of 1971, I worked as a researcher down on the Navajo Reservation, commuting from Boulder and spen...
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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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