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If you have a mellow mindset, there’s virtually nothing you can’t do without your two-foot-tall toddler in tow.
Shane McConkey died last week in a ski/BASE-jumping accident.
A non-digital photo (and a real honest-to-goodness handwritten letter) are worth a thousand emails.
Hippie, nerd, rebel, stoner – what does your hair say about you?
The morning rush slows down to a crawl as Baby Elle communes with a visiting blue jay.
Broncos drama has gone too far: Trade Cutler, already.
Columnist Peter Shelton spent a sunny day talking story at Giuseppe’s last weekend during a busy spring break day on the slopes – something that brings the best out of every skier.
Commissioner Heidi Albritton explains the steps the county is taking to try to keep the transfer station open.
Sitting in the waiting room, Peter Shelton swaps hip surgery stories with A-Rod.
Skiing, architects, Iris in Asia, Norwood poetry.
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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)

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