commentary
A man-hug bigger than a winning touchdown.
There’s no hope for the CU Buffalos as long as Coach Hawkins keeps his son on as starting quarterback.
Nostalgic recollections of picking pears from an old tree in the grandparents’ backyard.
Old skiers, young skiers and middle-aged skiers wearing very nice sweaters come together for ‘The Edge of Never.’
Thank you for standing up for health care reform.
From Thucydides to Rysard Kapuściński on Herodotus and beyond: How much we are like the ancient Greeks and Persians.
Suddenly it’s fashionable to go deer-hunting again, and not only for the well-heeled.
When it comes to supporting early childhood education, Mountain Village and the Mountain Village Owners Association are well ahead of the national curve.
Football fan and Brett Favre hater Gus Jarvis has a change of heart about the Viking’s quarterback.
Helper and Green River, Utah may seem run-down but their futures look bright.
Reasoning with a toddler about when it is and isn’t appropriate to puddle splash is a hapless cause. Sometimes it’s better just to embrace it.
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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