commentary
It may seem an odd time of year for U.S. ski team news, but I couldn’t resist these items in the headlines recently. (The ski team is, in fact, beginning its summer training schedule this week ...
TOM SHADYAC … While it took several thousand folks to make it happen, including Mayor John Pryor, town elders Phil and Linda Miller, Jane Hickcox’s fundraising crew, and second-homer Meg Whitman, ...
Art Goodtimes
FORCED REMOVAL … It had been four days of conferencing, talking about oil and water, both the physical reality of those two fluids, but the larger metaphor of native and non-native, s...
Little Cloe was about 10. She got a lot of ear infections as a child, and she caught a doozey that August while we were in France .
We had swapped houses for the month with a French family w...
The Telluride Town Council deserves a lot of credit for forging ahead with a consideration of “horizontal zoning” even in the face of strong opposition from main street property owners and even sk...
Jack Pera
First, a warning: This is not your ordinary election evaluation.
1) Voting is an exercise in futility.
So the Democrats won big. Thrilled? The gutless, worthless and hopeless political ...
Those of us who favored the 91 percent compromise solution for preserving the bulk of the Valley Floor as preferable to proceeding with what we saw as a risky path of condemnation were absolutely ...
Peter Shelton
It’s amazing what a difference a new administration makes.
I wish I were talking about Washington. But no, this is Denver we’re discussing. And the changes being put in place by a De...
Two weeks ago, the Watch reported on Ridgway’s latest attempt to clean up its act. Town council, noting the proliferation of vehicles with expired plates scattered around town, proposed a new, or r...
I didn’t mind hearing my annoying alarm clock blaring at 2:30 Friday morning. Yes, I woke up the whole house, but they quickly went back to sleep while I prepped for my five-hour ride to Pueblo fo...
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
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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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