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How about some great news in the depths of the Great Recession?
Who knew the New Orleans Saints would be sitting in the NFC drivers’ seat? With the Colts leading the AFC South, both teams must work on their strategy for playoffs success.
As legislators wrangle with thorny water rights and in-stream flow guarantees, the flora and fauna remain in jeopardy.
A 2-year-old’s unending streams of “why?” lead mom to research current holiday traditions on the internet.
Columnist Peter Shelton has a million questions about what he calls ‘the white circus’ that has just arrived at the Telluride Ski Area.
‘I'm giving [President Obama] a full term’s support to see what changes he can accomplish before I start succumbing to disappointment or invective,’ says Up Bear Creek columnist Art Goodtimes.
A bit of nighttime space can make for a better parent in the morning. But first you have to let go.
It’s the snow blindness, not the icy roads, which cause the real drama of winter driving.
‘If it comes down to Tebow or McCoy, the Heisman Trophy will be dead to me,’ warns Sports Watch columnist Gus Jarvis.
‘If Nucla were smart, it would at least embrace solar concentrating plants and conversion of the Tri-State power plant to biofuels as potential future backups, instead of locking itself into a recu...
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By Martinique Davis
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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)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)

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