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The Old West and the New collided on South Cora Street three decades ago.
AT FLEETWOOD'S – John McGill (left to right), Mick Fleetwood and McGill's partner Mark Hopper, at Fleetwood's. (Courtesy photo)
“I should not have been surprised when the waiter at a street café in Maui brought my check with a pen that had the Telluride Ski Resort logo on it,” writes GSW Co-founder John McGill.
Goodtimes will relinquish his title of Poet Laureate of the Western Slope when a new Laureate is named at the Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival in Carbondale.
Skiing? It was out of the question; on his last attempt, three winters ago, he had fallen into a tree well beside the trail and found that he couldn’t get up, no matter how hard he tried.
You meet the most amazing people on chairlift rides, especially long, slow doubles.
A NOMAD GIRL herded sheep and goats with her mom. Elisabeth Gick stopped her car to let them cross the highway safely and she came up to the car window to peek in. (Courtesy photo)
In June, Elisabeth Gick heads up in eastern Tibet, traveling with Conscious Journeys, the for-profit arm of Tamdin Wangdu’s Tibetan Village Project, a humanitarian aid organization.
A report from Telluride School Board President Paul Reich on “three areas that you may have heard about, or are concerned about,” including “the allocation of 3A monies, the use of technology in o...
Ours has to be the most irresponsible, reprehensible, irrational generation to ever populate the earth.
I’m delighted to take a poetry tour with my friend and rising national poetry star from Grand Junction, Wendy Videlock.
The 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion sparked some difficult memories from the author’s past.
Dr. Christopher Crockett answers two questions most of us don’t know the answer to: How long would it take to travel to the nearest star? And what is the most distant object visible to the naked eye?
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
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SAFETY FIRST – Surrounded by students, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill into law at Ouray School on Thursday afternoon that seeks to enhance school safety across Colorado by providing support at the state level to hire more school resource officers. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
RATS’ NEST – A rack of demo bikes at last year’s Ridgway Area Trails (RAT) Festival in Hartwell Park. This year’s 3rd annual will again feature trail building and skills clinics, along with a new Friday beer-and-shorts film night at the Sherbino Theater. (Courtesy photo)
VOLUNTEER Linda Granzow worked twine through spent round casings at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
WARRIOR WIND CHIMES – Welcome Home Montrose staff Emily Smith painted ceramic part of wind chimes at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
BACK HOME IN TELLURIDE – members of Telluride’s Volunteer Fire Department helped move the Galloping Goose No. 4 back to its home next to the San Miguel County Courthouse on May 16. The railbus spent the last four years in Ridgway while it was refurbished. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)

ROBERT JUSTIS (Courtesy photo)

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