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The very last mistake that I ever thought I would make at my home was to be an unwitting provider to a young but timid black bear, two nights running last week.
But the excitement and awe of th...
May 14, 2007 | 0 | 6 |
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Little Cloe was about 10. She got a lot of ear infections as a child, and she caught a doozey that August while we were in France .
We had swapped houses for the month with a French family w...
May 14, 2007 | 0 | 5 |
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Peter Shelton
It’s amazing what a difference a new administration makes.
I wish I were talking about Washington. But no, this is Denver we’re discussing. And the changes being put in place by a De...
May 10, 2007 | 0 | 3 |
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A significant challenge has been met. This week, Valley Floor Preservation Partners (VFPP) transferred to the Town of Telluride Open Space Fund $24,300,000 for the purpose of purchasing the Valle...
May 10, 2007 | 0 | 3 |
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Just the other day I saw a load of folks hanging around the Free Box, including people in their trucks looking on, waiting for something to happen.
Word on the street is that it’s a hangout for ...
May 10, 2007 | 0 | 4 |
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QUIET COMMOTION … If this group is making a ruckus, they’re doing so in service to a notion of quiet on our public lands. A raft of hikers, bikers, kayakers, hunters, anglers, and birders ...
May 10, 2007 | 0 | 5 |
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I say to hell with lemonade – bring on the hot chocolate, hot toddy, whatever. It’s the first week in May. Bone-chilling cold. It’s gray, a very dreary, gray. Cold fog hangs over the fields, maybe...
Apr 29, 2007 | 0 | 3 |
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Residents of Telluride are so preoccupied with the War of the Floor that we may scarcely notice that the residents of Mountain Village are on the verge of a civil war of their own. The flashpoint ...
Apr 29, 2007 | 0 | 2 |
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TALKING GOURDS … Off season wasn’t completely off this past weekend, as Gourdsters from all over Colorado and New Mexico converged on Telluride for three days of hip-hop, slam, spoken word an...
Apr 29, 2007 | 0 | 3 |
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The word on the street is the weather is weird.
What’s so weird about it, O Chicken Little?
What is weird about it was our series of late-season storms as wave upon wave of Pacific- -to-Jet-St...
Apr 24, 2007 | 0 | 4 |
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This seems so obvious: The guy was psychotic. He was paranoid, delusional and agitated. The mystery is not why he decided to kill himself and take 32 people with him. Some people snap and become vi...
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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