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Grace Herndon
The play’s title alone, Down At The Hog Ranch – A Historically-Based Play About Pigs in the Cathouse, was meant to catch our attention. But the production and its local historic under...
Lately, I’ve come across lots of news stories about George W’s new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. (Apparently no relation to Bill Gates.) Instead, R. Gates’s career has been all about the CIA,...
Lisa “the Welder” Issenberg and Jerry “Snowviewer” Roberts at the Historic Western Hotel and Saloon in Ouray, Saturday night, June 23, 2007.
The bride wore a gown by…well, it wasn’t a gown real...
Word on the street is the Bluegrass invasion is over, and this loosely wound interior village called Telluride is more forever changed than it could ever, by itself, change the big bad global villa...
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...
Out of the blue the other day, I got an email from David Moe. I haven’t seen or communicated with David Moe for probably 20 years.
He was one of the founding fathers of Powder Magazine, whi...
SUITCASE OF YESES … The County’s Poet Laureate, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, has a great new collection of poetry and songs available locally, produced in cooperation with the Telluride Council for t...
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 ...
This day and age, Planet Earth seems to be getting smaller and smaller. I am sitting here at a desk in Fort Worth, Tex., eating an apple that has come to my mouth from the Pacific Northwest, wearin...
Word on the street is that one of those hobgoblins of responsible anxiety – smoking cigarettes –celebrated its first anniversary of being able to take place only outside the front door of the work ...
This day and age, Planet Earth seems to be getting smaller and smaller. I am sitting here at a desk in Fort Worth, Tex., eating an apple that has come to my mouth from the Pacific Northwest, wearin...
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SAFETY FIRST – Surrounded by students, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill into law at Ouray School on Thursday afternoon that seeks to enhance school safety across Colorado by providing support at the state level to hire more school resource officers. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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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