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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...
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 me...
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 reall...
Since the Valley Floor fundraising success there is a different buzz in town. Have you felt it? It’s like a longtime logjam that suddenly let loose and the river’s balance has been found again. Be...
It’s a disappearance problem – the sudden mass disappearance of honeybees worldwide. You know, the same critters that give us fruits and veggies via the symbiosis of pollination. Popular theories a...
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...
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...
I reckon it’s been two months since I was a wanted man. Not wanted as in needed, but as in a fugitive from justice.
It all came back to me when I ran into Ouray County Sheriff Dominic “Junior...
It’s a disappearance problem – the sudden mass disappearance of honeybees worldwide. You know, the same critters that give us fruits and veggies via the symbiosis of pollination. Popular theories a...
Grace Herndon
These days, San Miguel Power Association’s electric consumers may be wondering just how the term “co-op” fits into the federally subsidized rural electric cooperative system. Earlier ...
Grace Herndon
After all these years, I figured our relationship with the Denver Post was solid. Here at the ranch, we’ve been subscribers since probably the early 1950s. Then last week we received ...
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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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