commentary
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 ...
The Ridgway Schools Board of Education, Superintendent Douglas Bissonette and likely the majority of the parents and students in the district, think they deserve a new gymnasium to the tune of ...
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”...
Peter Shelton
All four of the sunflower-yellow airplanes and all three helicopters in the hangers at Olathe Spray Service have pictures of Felix the Cat on their tails. And – completing the analog...
VISITING VINCE … It was a real pleasure spending time with my 87-year-old dad down the peninsula from Herb Caen’s Baghdad-by-the-Bay. In Mountain View, best known these days as Google’s headquarter...
JUCO, the Junior College World Series, just wrapped up its 50th annual tournament in Grand Junction . It’s an all-American festival: popcorn and peanuts and the seventh-inning stretch; ...
MOVING TO TUESDAY … Friday’s op-ed page has gotten pretty crowded with columnists Jack Pera and Rob Schultheis moving to the Watch. Dean of local columnists Grace Herndon also makes an occasional a...
I’ve been going out to the canyon country for over thirty years, since I first moved to Telluride; as soon as I discovered how close we were to the slickrock mazes, mysterious slots and lost alcove...
Walter Farnham still has the casual air of a suburban Ivy League WASP, so what this “man for all reasons” doing in Norwood?
A whole lot, it turns out.
Not only is he still into antiques, art coll...
Isn’t every New Year remarkable? For one thing, you get to celebrate another birthday (if you live that long). For another, you get to wipe the slate clean of everything that went wrong in the prev...
raising elle
By Martinique Davis
up bear creek
By Art Goodtimes
sports watch
By Gus Jarvis
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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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