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It was one of those perfect Ridgway summer evenings. Chicken sizzled on the grill, a light breeze rustled the cottonwoods, while we sat around an old wooden table in Bill Liske’s back yard. Over u...
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It was about eight years ago that the question of whether or not to run for the Ouray School Board of Education (BOE) was on my mind. There was a definite tension to putting myself out there to se...
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A famous singer would be nice. Someone with enormous appeal across multiple generations. Someone who would do a benefit concert here in town. Ridgway isn’t a frequent stop on the concert circuit s...
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With mixed feelings I announce today that I will not be running for a second term as Mayor of Telluride. My reasons are personal and involve the need and desire to spend more time with my family a...
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So by now you have seen the banners around town talking about a gym and music room for our community. You may have also seen some students playing ball by the side of the road and handing out flye...
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Ridgway Schools cheats. Well, sort of. We teach to the test. Put another way, we teach the basic reading, writing, math, and science skills that are required of all students throughout the nation....
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The fallout after the federal investigation of NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who allegedly bet on games he refereed, continues…this time on the baseball diamond.
Last Thursday, Rob Manfred, MLB’s execu...
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PLASTICS … That was the prize line in The Graduate, and it’s been a miracle-worker for as long as we’ve been alive. It’s become ubiquitous in this industrial, oil culture of ours. And finally scien...
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CORNET CREEK … A disaster waiting to happen. I remember going on a tour with a state group of engineers a few years back looking at natural hazards in the region. When they came to Telluride, they ...
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Word on the street is something was missing from the avenue last weekend, a giant sparkplug sort of thing that sprays lightning.
For the second consecutive year the Tesla Coil failed to appear to ...
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As a captain with the Telluride Volunteer Fire Department I feel I must comment.
It has come to my attention that during a Segway tour a guide told his group in front of the Telluride Fire House o...
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
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
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