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Over the tarmac and through the terminal to Grandma’s house we go.
The latest issue of Ed Quillen’s Colorado Central sums up the talking points at this year’s annual Headwaters Conference.
Perhaps a gun safety course should be a standard part of NFL training camps.
A photograph and a grandbaby bring columnist Peter Shelton to the foot of Shiprock.
It’s time for the world’s youngest empire to sit down with the world’s oldest.
Fire is a fact of life here in the high country. But how many residents know the tricks to keep their homes – for most of us, our life’s investment – safe?
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Get ready for more soap opera stylings in the NFL as Favre makes a run at the Super Bowl. That’s right, the old man is gunning for the postseason.
Last-minute mineral rights auction announcement threatens Slickrock Trail, Arches National Park, Porcupine Rim, Desolation Canyon; protestors convene
A trip to the Ouray Hot Springs with baby is a whole new ballgame.
Telluride Mayor Stu Fraser contemplates the tasks ahead – at the micro and macro level.
Watch columnist Grace Herndon remembers the Chicago of her youth, the transitioning of the South Side of her adulthood, and her joy (and hard work) regarding Barack Obama’s victorious milepost camp...
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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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