commentary
The San Miguel Resource Center has experienced a spike in the need for its services as households feel the negative effects of the economy.
Roz Savage publicizes Pacific’s Plastic Garbage Patch… Goodtimes’s idea for converting Nucla’s coal plant to bio-diesel…
Belly scars serve to remind us of the growing trend of the economization of childbirth.
Telluride region resident Robert M. Hamburger, a futures trader, ruminates on financial security and real estate.
The trickle-down theory didn’t work with capital excesses for the rich, but it sure works with the lack thereof.
The MV Town Council will consider changing rules governing the town’s parking facilities at their February meeting.
Evidence is no proof of wrongdoing. Deny ’til you die, says columnist Gus Jarvis.
Keep your friends close, and your friends with cameras closer.
Columnist Art Goodtimes runs the gamut of laws that will affect San Miguel County in this week’s Up Bear Creek.
‘If you haven’t crawled under your kitchen table lately, you really should’ and other lessons from parenting a newly ambulatory toddler.
Since when do teams have to apologize for winning big? Coaches should prepare for more regulations in high school sports.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
photos
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
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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