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May 25, 2007 | 0 
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Now grab your favorite toys, guys and gals and do-si-do. Push the pedals fast and hard, and around those wheels do go. We’ve got a valley that’s a tailor-made playground, so head right out and pro...
May 24, 2007 | 0 | 4 |
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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, ...
May 24, 2007 | 0 | 4 |
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In the face of all of the advertising and letters stating that “voting yes on 2A will never raise your taxes,” as your Mayor, I simply have to be honest with you. Perhaps this perspective will be h...
May 24, 2007 | 0 | 9 |
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Ol’ Heraklitas was right, change is as inevitable as gravity and the cooling of the universe; but that doesn’t mean it’s always OK. In fact, sometimes it’s a damned shame. In this case, a classic T...
May 24, 2007 | 0 | 5 |
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Will the real environmentalists please stand up? Not all at once, please. I’m talking about the preservationist type, not those who practice conservation. Town of Telluride ballot question 2A asks ...
May 24, 2007 | 0 | 6 |
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View To The West By Peter Shelton
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 s...
May 24, 2007 | 0 | 4 |
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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 ...
May 23, 2007 | 0 | 2 |
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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...
May 23, 2007 | 0 | 3 |
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The very last mistake that I ever thought I would make at my home was to be an unwitting provider to a young but timid black bear, two nights running last week.
But the excitement and awe of th...
May 23, 2007 | 0 | 4 |
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Things in Silverton have started picking up. More RVs and campers are claiming their summer spots at the base of Kendall Mountain and nearly all the plywood has been removed from shop window...
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
By Rob Schultheis
photos
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)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)
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