commentary
Chef Ross Martin advances the notion of a local cuisine.
Where do we draw the line on free speech?
The only thing worse than a cheater is Scott McCarron.
Sometimes cartoons are the only way to go, and sometimes, you’ve got to have friends.
Telluride Mountain School students learn real-life conflict resolution through role play guided by Axis of Hope director Carl Hobert.
Facing history and weather, the odds are stacking up against Vancouver.
Art Goodtimes wants to help local businesses… Art Breaks are a welcome respite at county meetings… John Salazar has found ‘the radical middle’…
Funding cutbacks, coupled with a downward trending in its student population, will lead to changes, Ouray School District R-1 Board Secretary warns
Telluride Regional Airport Boardmember Al Lewis asks: “Where’s our share” of the $4 million-plus said to be sitting in Telluride Montrose Regional Air Organization coffers
In a second pregnancy, you worry more because now you know what’s at stake.
Most would point the finger at Brett Favre for his late game interception but what good is a running back if they can’t hold on to the ball?
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
photos

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)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)

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