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NEW OWNERS – Tyler Hill (left) and Tim Tucker have bought the St. Elmo Hotel and Bon Ton restaurant, located in the hotel’s basement, in a five-year lease purchase deal. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Front Range, Telluride duo acquire historic Ouray businesses.
CHICK WITH PICK – Canadian climber and author Margo Talbot kicks off this year’s Chicks with
Picks women’s ice climbing clinics with a slideshow at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Ouray
Community Center. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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This weekend, Talbot ushers in a new season of Chicks With Picks women’s ice climbing clinics with a slideshow presentation at the Ouray Community Center on Saturday, Jan. 14 that promises to take ...
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Four-course Fundraiser for Southwest Institute Jan. 19… January is School Board Recognition Month… MMH Health Fair Scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 25
FOLLOW YOUR BLISS – The recently expanded Trout Lake/Lizard Head trail system (above) has inspired two- and four-legged users alike this sunny winter, with its gentle grades and expert grooming. The region’s higher altitudes have some of the best Nordic skiing in the country this winter, with other popular Nordic designations including Vail, Aspen and Crested Butte still unable to open much of their terrain. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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In a low-snow winter, the Telluride Nordic Association has opened more track-skiing terrain atop Lizard Head Pass; clinics this Saturday.
ANDRES MARIN shows off his dry-tooling technique in the difficult upper third section of the competition route at last weekend's Ouray Ice Festival. Marin, who placed second in Elite Mixed Ice Climbing, hails from Colombia, but lives and guides in Ouray. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Crowds of climbers thrill to exciting photo finish at Ouray Ice Festival competition.
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It may not seem like it but Telluride had some of the best early season snow in the country and sales at Telluride Regional Airport are proving it.
SQUEAKY CLEAN – San Miguel Power Assn. will buy power from this solar garden being built by Clean Energy Collective in Montrose County. (Courtesy photo)
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Clean Energy Collective, an innovator of community-based clean energy facilities, has finalized a power purchase agreement with the San Miguel Power Association for all the energy output from the ...
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After three years of hard work the Uncompahgre Waterhshed Partnership is unveiling its draft watershed plan.
BLACK CANYON LEGACY CENTER – The 4,754-square-foot Casa Barranca luxury home inside the boundary of the Black Canyon National Park is what developer Tom Chapman envisions as a multiple function conference and music center if the right benefactor can be found. (Photo courtesy of Tom Chapman)
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The developer of an inholding in the Black Canyon National Park seeks a buyer who will donate it to the park service.
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The Foundation’s Board of Directors was able to match the 2008 levels of grant awards.
MAGIC CIRCLE Players assemble around the eponymous patient in the Montrose theater group’s Whose Life Is It Anyway?, which runs weekends, Jan. 13-28. (Courtesy photo)
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The Tony award-nominated play Whose Life Is It Anyway? will be performed over the next three weekends at the Magic Circle Theater, in Montrose.
THERE WAS A HISTORY of violence in the relationship between Melinda Yager and her husband. A walk in her honor will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. in Delta. (Courtesy photo)
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A walk commemorating domestic violence victim Melinda Yager, who died a year ago, and benefiting Tri County Resources’ mission to empower and educate individuals affected by domestic violence and s...
OVER THERE – Members of the Colorado National Guard Medical Supply Company left Montrose last January for a one-year tour of duty in Afghanistan. They will be coming home later this month (all 85 of them), and Montrose is planning a day-long delayed-Christmas celebration. (File photo)
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A little more than a sendoff to remember, the Colorado National Guard’s 928th Area Medical Supply Company returns to Montrose, for a daylong celebration.
SWEET LOAF - Named "Povitica," after the Slovenian sweet loaf, a steel beam will add some spice to the mixed climbing competition this year. Here, route setter Vince Anderson completed some last minute work on the route where climbers will attempt to ascend from the left, cross the beam and then continue up the right rock wall. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Vince Anderson unveils heinous new comp route for 2012 Ouray Ice Festival.
NEW LEASE ON LIFE – Cornerstone, the Greg Norman designed 18-hole golf course named Golf Magazine’s “Best New Private Course in the Country” in 2009, is under new management. (File photo)
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SilverLeaf Financial, which specializes in buying distressed debt, purchased Cornerstone fee simple with clear title, for an undisclosed price in late December.
NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jodi Pounds joins the Ah Haa School with plans to “grow it and grow it.” (Courtesy photo)
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The Ah Haa School’s new executive director, Jodi Pounds, arrives from U.C. Berkeley.
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Friends of the Montrose Recreation Center turned in more than enough petition signatures to get a funding measure on the ballot in April.
TWEED - Victoria Crawford in the new Telluride studio. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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All the stars aligned for Robyn Shaw and Victoria Crawford in creating the unique Tweed Studio.
TOO MANY COVER INTRUSIONS – The Ouray Town Hill rope tow opened “by the skin of our teeth” with a significant snowfall before Christmas, according to lift manager Dylan Baer. But now the city has decided to close the free, after-school hill until the next storm replenishes the thin cover. Ski areas around the state are dealing with the effects of a fickle La Niña weather pattern, resulting in base depths around 60 percent of average for this time of year. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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A low-snow winter, so far, leads experts to conclude that one La Niña is not the same as the next one.
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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)
