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Columnist Goodtimes packs up the last of his late father Vince’s belongings, and digs up the heirloom spuds he brought to Vince’s yard for this year’s growing season, and heads home to Colorado for...
New book will help skiers find their flow on the mountain, and hopefully hit the Love Spot©.
Tax measures are approved in Ouray County and on Wright’s Mesa while the deep blue Telluride region votes no.
Baby loves ski movies, parents sure she will become radical skier.
From whistle-blower to drug smuggler, Canseco displays his true character as an unethical tattletale.
It’s a new political landscape, nationally – but then on the opposite front in southwestern Colorado, where two key moderate Democrats – Montrose County Commissioner Bill Patterson and Grand Juncti...
America enters a new era with the election of Barack Obama.
Columnist Peter Shelton has a problem with this column’s deadline and the results of the presidential race all the while hoping a change is on the way for American politics.
A playoff system won’t solve the mess generated by the computer generated BCS rankings.
Babies need stuff even less than grownups do, but that little sweater with a Scottie will be so cute at Christmas.
Columnist Goodtimes asks how we can instill democratic values in kids raised in an authoritarian system.
raising elle
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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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