commentary
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.
A chance encounter with a bear’s skull prompts a case of the shivers.
In the face of the return of uranium mining and milling, rock climbers unite to preserve Paradox Valley.
Prepare, everyone. The next installment of Rocktober is just around the corner. I hope it will be a good one.
With Salazars and Sherman, San Miguel County residents have friends in D.C. ... Does cannabis inhibit cancer?.
Columnist Martinique Davis likens herself to Augustus Gloop at Wonka’s chocolate river when she visits the weekly farmer’s market in Telluride.
Telluride Realtor George Harvey weighs in on the importance of second homeowners.
The Christian right wing’s ‘funding angel’ Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Jr. – odd, even at the age of eleven.
Manchild in Chicagoland: Jay Cutler plays true to form.
The crowds are off hunting, so it’s a great time for anglers to find solitude at area lakes and streams. And the fish are biting, too.
San Miguel County will not leave Montrose County alone when it comes to the Pinon Ridge Mill.
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
dispatches
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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