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Hunt:Forty-Eight Days and Counting | Hunt(ing) in Colorado
by Jeff Hunt
Jun 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Forty-eight days. That’s when the Colorado High School Activities Association sanctioned football season begins. For those who don’t want to grab the calendar and count that far ahead, that me...
Shelton: Watch Society Page: Vows | View to the West
by Peter Shelton
Jun 25, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Lisa “the Welder” Issenberg and Jerry “Snowviewer” Roberts at the Historic Western Hotel and Saloon in Ouray, Saturday night, June 23, 2007. The bride wore a gown by…well, it wasn’t a gown reall...
Pryor:Celebrate Unity | Guest Commentary
by John Pryor
Jun 24, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Since the Valley Floor fundraising success there is a different buzz in town. Have you felt it? It’s like a longtime logjam that suddenly let loose and the river’s balance has been found again.  Be...
Pera:To Bee or Not to Bee? That is the question | Musings of a Mountain Man
by Jack Pera
Jun 24, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s a disappearance problem – the sudden mass disappearance of honeybees worldwide. You know, the same critters that give us fruits and veggies via the symbiosis of pollination. Popular theories a...
McDaniel:Bluegrass Invasion Inspires Secret Economic Plan for Just Us Locals | Word on the Street
by Douglas McDaniel
Jun 24, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Word on the street is the Bluegrass invasion is over, and this loosely wound interior village called Telluride is more forever changed than it could ever, by itself, change the big bad global villa...
Goodtimes:Weaving the County and Region Together | Up Bear Creek
by Art Goodtimes
Jun 24, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
COLLABORATION … A couple years ago I went just outside Ridgway to visit former San Miguel County Commissioner Gene Adams, after setting things up with Terry Adams who works for our county attorneys...
Hunt: Thanks Sheriff, for Calling Off the Dogs | Hunt(ing) in Colorado
by Jeff Hunt
Jun 20, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
I reckon it’s been two months since I was a wanted man. Not wanted as in needed, but as in a fugitive from justice. It all came back to me when I ran into Ouray County Sheriff Dominic “Junior...
Pera:To Bee or Not to Bee? That is the question | Musings of a Mountain Man
by Jack Pera
Jun 20, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s a disappearance problem – the sudden mass disappearance of honeybees worldwide. You know, the same critters that give us fruits and veggies via the symbiosis of pollination. Popular theories a...
Herndon:Rural Co-ops Struggle to Cooperate | Dateline Wrights Mesa
Jun 20, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Grace Herndon These days, San Miguel Power Association’s electric consumers may be wondering just how the term “co-op” fits into the federally subsidized rural electric cooperative system. Earlier ...
Herndon:Wanted: Mail Carrier to the Moon | Dateline Wrights Mesa
Jun 20, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Grace Herndon After all these years, I figured our relationship with the Denver Post was solid. Here at the ranch, we’ve been subscribers since probably the early 1950s. Then last week we received ...
Pryor:Celebrate Unity | Guest Commentary
by John Pryor
Jun 20, 2007 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Since the Valley Floor fundraising success there is a different buzz in town. Have you felt it? It’s like a longtime logjam that suddenly let loose and the river’s balance has been found again.  Be...

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