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Eliminate the Dangerous Subsidies Now
More musings from Art Goodtimes...
The Telluride Film Festival is receiving national attention, albeit from a fictional cartoon character.
Columnist Gus Jarvis returned to the racetrack to root for an old favorite in the Daytona 500, only to be foiled by Mother Nature.
Telluride Mountain Sprouts preschool hosts its fundraiser Thursday with a silent auction and performance by Soprano Josselin Lifton-Zoline at the Sheridan Opera House. Doors open at 5 p.m.
The West-Wide Corridors proposal is waiting in the wings for the Obama Administration to introduce its version to this sweeping plan.
Our next prosperity? Our heads are telling us it’s all going to hell and our hearts are refusing to give up, says columnist Art Goodtimes.
One liquor store owner says the proposed legislation allowing grocery stores to sell full strength beer will negatively impact his business, along with consumer choice and state revenue.
After successful careers on the gridiron, many retired football stars are taking a turn on the dance floor, and in fine form.
When world class skiers complain of a course being “too hard,” what is left for us mortals?
Sometimes new parents forget to honor “we” instead of “me.” Try the former this Valentine’s Day.
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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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