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Ridgway Area Trails group (RAT) is hosting a trail building class and fundraiser/party June 9-12 in Ridgway.
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Second Chance Pursues Special Use Permit for Angel Ridge Ranch ...San Juan Kids Cavity Prevention Program Receives Oral Health Innovation Award...
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The Telluride-Norwood Girls track team took third at state, the boys fifth, proving they’re among the best athletes Colorado.
WE DID IT! — Montrose High seniors celebrate at the end of commencement ceremonies on Saturday that saw 269 seniors graduate, with 41 of them receiving with the Excellence in Education Award, which requires a 3.75 grade point average. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Hall, Montrose High)
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Fifteen percent of Montrose High graduating class had ‘A’ averages.
ROUND THE BEND – After a long absence, and now for the second year in a row, bush track horse racing has returned to the Montrose Fairgrounds. The races, sponsored by the Black Canyon Horse Racing Association, will be held June 18-19. (Photo courtesy of James McElman)
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Volunteers and county staff work to keep Fairgrounds race track in shape.
THE SILVER MEDAL triple jump at the state meet last weekend went to Ouray’s Kaleb Sackman, who leaped to a new school record of 43’ 8.5”. Ouray tracksters scored three other podium finishes at state. (Courtesy photo)
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Ouray track brought home four podium finishes (and two school records) from the state track meet last weekend.
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Tim DeChristopher spoke with The Watch about the climate justice movement, and the likelihood of going to prison, prior to his attendance at Mountainfilm this weekend.
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... Grand Junction church rescinds Ward Churchill invitation to speak on Memorial Day ...
HORSE ON A MISSION – Don Del Monte and his horse Rico have been on the road for more than a year, crossing the country to raise awareness for the prevention of suicide and child abuse. But Del Monte and Rico can’t hit the road because of the equine virus quarantine, and are stuck for the moment at the Montrose County Fairgrounds. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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Riding his horse Rico across the country to promote suicide prevention, Don Del Monte will hold a ‘meet and greet’ at Riverbottom Park this Sunday
DRS. NANCY KERR AND MARK HAUSWALD travel to Nepal in August with their life-saving postpartum device, courtesy of a Gates Foundation grant. (Courtesy photo)
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Gates Foundation grants $100,000 to Nancy Kerr and Mark Hauswald to research their invention, a simple yet innovative device that could influence women’s health in developing countries.
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Andy Mueller of the Colorado River Water Conservation District briefed the Ouray BOCC Tuesday (May 24) on a tentative breakthrough in Colorado’s decades-long water wars.
A PERFECT SOLDIER – Aki Ra (left), who has dedicated years toward recovering live land mines in Cambodia, and helping those impacted by them. (© Richard Fitoussi/Witness Photographic)
TELLURIDE MOUNTAINFILM 2011
A Perfect Soldier, the Story of Childhood Soldier and Now Activist Aki Ra
A Perfect Soldier, the Story of Childhood Soldier and Now Activist Aki Ra
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The extraordinary new film A Perfect Soldier has its roots in two chance encounters, one in Cambodia, the second at Telluride Mountainfilm.
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Equine herpesvirus has been detected in Colorado horses that attended a cutting horse show in Utah. Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel county fairgrounds are closed to all horses; horse show dates are ...
LOW WATER PLANTS – One way to save water is to plant native species, says Heather Gilliam of San Juan Nursery, such as ephedra on the left, globe caragana on the right, and various kinds of sage, in the background. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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Up to half of household water goes to yards and gardens.
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SCENTLESS CHAMOMILE
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Successful control of noxious weeds requires proper identification, timing and technique.
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Telluride officials say that plans for a new municipal water supply could be delayed, but probably not stopped.
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Montrose County Planning Commission asks property owners to help mitigate selenium in the area.
CLASIC FORM – Ouray senior Geordyn MacDougall (center, between unidentified runners from Soroco and Dove Creek) led the pack in the finished third in Grand Junction in
100 m hurdles last weekend in Grand Junction. MacDougall qualified for the state championships in a school record 17 seconds flat. (Photo by
David Emory)
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The combined Ouray-Ridgway-Silverton-Lake City high school track and field team qualified a dozen athletes to the state championships next week in Lakewood.
DYNAMITE – The Telluride/Norwood track team. (Courtesy photo)
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Telluride/Norwood high schools are headed to the state track and field meet with a menacing reputation.
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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)
