commentary
Fire bans and water call-ups. Western folks have been talking about over-stocked forests, and urban folks have been talking about climate changes, and it all seems to be coming together – unlike ou...
In a sense, Lawson Hill didn’t preserve community after all. It fostered new divisions.
A short weekend camping trip isn’t nearly long enough for this 4 year old.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival’s music guru Brian Eyster shares his own personal Top Ten List with The Watch.
Concerts in Montrose, Ridgway and Ouray, and a handmade-quilt raffle, all in the arts this week.
Go to bed. Tomorrow is another day.
JOAN MAY … It has been a singular pleasure to work with Joan on the County Board of Commissioners. She is bright, fair, of the deepest integrity and understands the difference between good govern...
"I wasn’t the only [Mountainfilm] attendee struck by the way reality here in Telluride resonated with the themes of global climate change, drought and a world gone generally awry.”
Longtime Telluride part-timer Peter Yarrow weighs in on the short-term rental debate.
Mountinfilm’s symposium on population brought artists and scientists together on growth, energy, women’s rights . . . and music.
The Roger Clemens perjury trial redux is old news, and I have no hope of a guilty verdict coming out of it.
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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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