commentary
Fire bans and water call-ups. Western folks have been talking about over-stocked forests, and urban folks have been talking about climate changes, and it all seems to be coming together – unlike ou...
In a sense, Lawson Hill didn’t preserve community after all. It fostered new divisions.
A short weekend camping trip isn’t nearly long enough for this 4 year old.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival’s music guru Brian Eyster shares his own personal Top Ten List with The Watch.
Concerts in Montrose, Ridgway and Ouray, and a handmade-quilt raffle, all in the arts this week.
Go to bed. Tomorrow is another day.
JOAN MAY … It has been a singular pleasure to work with Joan on the County Board of Commissioners. She is bright, fair, of the deepest integrity and understands the difference between good govern...
"I wasn’t the only [Mountainfilm] attendee struck by the way reality here in Telluride resonated with the themes of global climate change, drought and a world gone generally awry.”
Longtime Telluride part-timer Peter Yarrow weighs in on the short-term rental debate.
Mountinfilm’s symposium on population brought artists and scientists together on growth, energy, women’s rights . . . and music.
The Roger Clemens perjury trial redux is old news, and I have no hope of a guilty verdict coming out of it.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
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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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