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IMOGENE WALL: North-facing aspects of Imogene Pass on the Ouray side, like this area near the false summit, had drifts as deep as ever, but on the Telluride side, crews reported that drifts that are normally 20-25 feet were only half that in the deepest sections this year. (Photo by Dave Leonardi)
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Mild weather conditions paired with light snowpack have resulted in the earliest opening of Imogene Pass in recent history.
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The service runs through September 4 to Dallas and through October 6 to Houston.
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The plan would have allowed military aircraft, including cargo planes and the crash-plagued Osprey helicopter/airplane hybrid, to fly as low as 300 feet above the ground over a 60,700-square-mile a...
RIDING FOR DZI – Members of the Studio Velo cycling team, including dZi Foundation board member Bill Keller (second from right), will be riding for the Ridgway-based charity in France at the end of July. dZi president Jim Nowak (not pictured) says the corporate pro-am event, Les Trois Etapes, will traverse three of the most iconic stages of the Tour de France and raise $1.5 million for a dozen charities worldwide. (Courtesy photo)
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Ridgway’s dZi Foundation will be road racing in France this summer with the Trois Etapes fundraiser.
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The Market on the Plaza will be twice the size it was last year.
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Painter George Kernan at Ah Haa, a pair of plays in Grand Junction, a Chicago dance troupe in Montrose, and Dixieland jazz in Ouray, all in the arts this week.
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Hot, dry spring sparks fire concerns among regional government officials
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The Telluride Town Talks take a TED-like turn.
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The South Dakota woman, and her cats, miraculously survived a plunge over Ruby Walls on Red
Mountain Pass.
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Subcommittee Vote Indicates Bipartisan Support
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Volunteers are needed every other Tuesday at the hummingbird banding and monitoring station that is set up near Dunton Hot Springs.
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Second Annual Rundola Fourth of July / Community Briefs
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The identies of the victims in an apparent murder-suicide have not been released.
GOLD MINER/Snowboarder Jimmy Dorsey's career has taken some strante turns on the way to Telluride (pictured left, with characteristic bushy red beard and missing tooth). (Courtesy photo)
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The erstwhile star of Gold Rush prospects for a new kind of mining reality show.
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Somehow, despite sketchy snow, Telluride bucked the trend and was slightly up.
WATER CONSERVATION IN EFFECT - According to Telluride Ski and Golf, the company has drastically cut back its water usage on the golf course this summer, in line with water restrictions imposed by the Town of Mountain Village. Residents are now limited to 70 percent of normal water consumption for landscaping. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Fireworks in Ouray and Telluride have not been canceled ... yet.
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In an unrelated incident, one of three tenants was seriously injured in an dirt bike accident on Saturday.
The Telluride region is an island of tan in a sea of red on this map posted by the National Weather Service on Friday. The Red Flag Warning is in effect through Saturday.
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The fire danger is higher than it has been in Western Colorado in a decade.
HARVEST TIME – Intern Robin Lewis harvested parsley from the Indian Ridge Farm garden in Norwood Tuesday in preparation
for the garden’s first distribution of the summer season. Indian Ridge also sells its produce and baked goods at the weekly
Telluride Farmers Market, which opens this Friday. The Ridgway Farmers Market debuts Friday, as well; see story, page 13.
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The Telluride Farmer’s Market celebrates its tenth summer beginning this Friday.
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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)
