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With Peter Shelton’s View to the West on the shelf for this edition (he’s in Cali with his family), I thought I would share with readers an incident that didn’t happen here, but very well could.
A...
Jul 11, 2007 | 0 | 7 |
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“…where every prospect pleases, and only Man is vile…”
Well, the poet sure hit the nail on the head with that one.
Maybe we should start issuing passports and visas to this neck of the woods, ‘...
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Since 1997, more than 200 people in 10 counties primarily in Asia have been infected with a new bird flu virus. This new virus has been quite dangerous, and half of the infected people have died. I...
Jul 09, 2007 | 0 | 3 |
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Some of you may recall our Ridgway friend James “Bobo” Burwick’s mid-winter attempt to sail from South Africa to New Zealand across the Southern Ocean.
Alone. He didn’t set the sin...
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BURN CANYON … It was just five years ago that a disastrous fire raged through the wooded hills and canyons southwest of Norwood – July 9, 2002.
The fire burned 31,300 acres of public and private ...
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In bullfighting lingo, there’s a word, espantaneo. It denotes a fan who, overcome with enthusiasm, leaps into the bull ring and attempts to fight the bull, with equivocal results. That’s what we we...
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This is around the time of year when I find myself studying the clouds every afternoon, trying to measure the air temperature and every ghost of a breeze, hoping that a genuine storm cell will show...
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COLLABORATION … A couple years ago I went just outside Ridgway to visit former San Miguel County Commissioner Gene Adams, after setting things up with Terry Adams who works for our county attorneys...
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A DYNAMITE GUY: How many of us living in the Town of Telluride were jarred out of our slumber by the 6 a.m. explosions set off by the Telluride Volunteer Fire Department Wednesday, July 4? Our scor...
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We love Telluride, and so often fantasize about moving here for good. Over the past 10 years or so, my family and I have been coming to Telluride as often as possible. We live in Boulder and feel s...
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Forty-eight days.
That’s when the Colorado High School Activities Association sanctioned football season begins.
For those who don’t want to grab the calendar and count that far ahead, that ...
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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