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Sometimes road visions stick in the mind as tenaciously as the family at the end of the drive.
A poem by Lito Tejada-Flores poem remembering Jim Davidson...
After watching the first five games of this first-round playoff series between the Nuggets and the Warriors, I have found a hatred for Golden State I never knew I had.
This week, Goodtimes writes of his recent visit to San Francisco: “I had the good fortune to come of age in the most vibrant city in America during its counter-cultural apex.”
Spring is the season for new beginnings and planting the seeds we want to grow.
The visual impact of “the house on the hill,” as it has come to be called here in Ouray County, would be difficult to overstate. It juts out over the valley of the Uncompahgre like a codpiece.
Basically the Lakers got their asses handed to them by the Spurs 91-79 because Dwight Howard couldn’t be the post up big man he’s supposed to be.
There will be discussion of a Special Use Permit Application from Rocky Mountain Aggregate at the Planning Board Meeting on Thursday, April 25, at 6 p.m., at the Montrose County Fairgrounds.
A reader writes in, in defense of the Catholic Church.
Colorado’s drought is in its second consecutive year, and the prognosis is not good.
It’s a grim reality that all-too-often these days we must witness the worst aspects human nature in order to see the best.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
photos
RATS’ NEST – A rack of demo bikes at last year’s Ridgway Area Trails (RAT) Festival in Hartwell Park. This year’s 3rd annual will again feature trail building and skills clinics, along with a new Friday beer-and-shorts film night at the Sherbino Theater. (Courtesy photo)
VOLUNTEER Linda Granzow worked twine through spent round casings at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
WARRIOR WIND CHIMES – Welcome Home Montrose staff Emily Smith painted ceramic part of wind chimes at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
BACK HOME IN TELLURIDE – members of Telluride’s Volunteer Fire Department helped move the Galloping Goose No. 4 back to its home next to the San Miguel County Courthouse on May 16. The railbus spent the last four years in Ridgway while it was refurbished. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)

ROBERT JUSTIS (Courtesy photo)

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