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The first real wave of declining property values is showing its effect on the region and has taxing authorities working to reduce their budgets even further.
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The Ouray County Soccer Assn. offers a season wrap-up.
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BAGS ‘N BEADS — The Ramsey family checks out the We Bead Connected booth on the first day of the Montrose Farmer’s Market on Saturday. From left are Robert, with Robert Jr. peaking through the beads, Ian, mom Jodi and Mackenzie. Photo by Lu Anne Tyrrell
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Farmers Market and other events packed downtown Montrose last weekend
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Golden-mantled ground squirrels may be cute, but they can wreak havoc on a garden.
MOTION ON MAIN – From little girls giving a dance demonstration to folks just strolling, the first-time closure of a few blocks of Main Street last year gave added dimension to Main in Motion, the weekly summer festival. But city fees for closing the street have gone up ten-fold, and Montrose County is exacting higher new fees from food vendors, which board members say could be the end of the event. (File photo)
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Fee increases could mean the demise of the festival.
MEETIN’AND GREETIN’ — Rich Fike, right, founder of the Museum of the Mountain West, greets Abe Lincoln impersonator Chuck Richey and John Wayne, played by Ermal Williams, at last year’s Western Movies Days. This year the event, June 18-19, will be held all day at the museum on Saturday, June 18, and centered on Sunday afternoon around a performance of Grammy winner Lynn Anderson at the Montrose Pavilion.
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Songstress Lynn Anderson to perform at Montrose Pavilion June 19 for museum fundraiser.
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At tri-county government meeting, US Forest Service planners explain that organization's third try this century at pushing through a new and improved Strategic Planning Rule/Colorado Roadless Rule…...
Bob Pistor
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Fire Chief Bob Pistor, in a surprise move, sent a letter of resignation letter to the board.
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Telluride Academy gains funding, training for children with disabilities.
FOND FAREWELL – Outgoing Telluride Schools Superintendent Mary Rubadeau was presented with a Community Service Award at Tuesday's meeting of Telluride Town Council. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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New regs for “pot shops”…Marshal says crime on the upswing…
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The previously undefeated THS girls soccer team loses in the first round of the state tournament.
Tahoe extreme Athlete Allison Kreutzen touched many in Ridgway and Ouray. (Courtesy photo)
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Beloved Ridgway/Ouray nurse/adventurer Allison Kreutzen died April 26, with her boyfriend Kip Garre, in an avalanche in California’s eastern Sierra.
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Teaser: A judge in Montrose told the Montrose County commissioners and the board of trustees of the Montrose Memorial Hospital to go back to negotiations to solve their differences.
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Lady Bugz opens...WISE women scholarships go to HIll, Johnson...THS graduate Childs awarded for work with INTERPOL.
Telluride Blues and Brews promoter Steve Gumble voiced his concerns to members of Telluride town council on Tuesday.
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The Telluride Town Council determined that time was too short to reach a decision and there was too much conflict with Blues and Brews.
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The airport authority board met with the San Miguel County Commissioners in a joint meeting on Wednesday.
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San Miguel County and the airport board also agreed Wednesday to a process for future decisionmaking.
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A WET SLAB avalanche on April 30 swept into Peru Gulch near Montezuma, Colo., destroying a high-voltage tower that had been in place since the 1970s. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center warns that large, destructive spring avalanches are a real possibility this spring. (Courtesy photo)
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While the southwestern part of the state lagged behind the northern and central mountains in snow depth for most of the winter, heavy snows in April have added to the potential for large slides.
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High tea in a former classroom of the historic Colona School.
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The Colona Grange fundraiser pulls in $1,200 - and great period settings and costumes.
![Michael Marleton (left) and Todd Gehrke of the Telluride Tourism Board, are planning the "I AM TELLURIDE" challenge for June 1.](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/165/assets/CKHH_tourismbd.jpg "Michael Marleton (left) and Todd Gehrke of the Telluride Tourism Board, are planning the "I AM TELLURIDE" challenge for June 1.")
Michael Marleton (left) and Todd Gehrke of the Telluride Tourism Board, are planning the "I AM TELLURIDE" challenge for June 1.
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Locals can sample an ‘experiential program’ by joining the ‘I Am Telluride Challenge’ on June 1.
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
Law enforcement officials in San Miguel County are searching for the whereabouts of 33-year-old Matthew Busker, who was reported missing on Monday. (Courtesy photo_
ALL AMERICA CITY MANAGER – Montrose City Manager Bill Bell flourished the award Sunday evening in Denver. Montrose was awarded the title of All America City this weekend. (Photo courtesy Scott Shine)
TELLURIDE ACADEMY STAFF – Gathered for a pre-season photo just prior to the Monday, June 10, launch of its 33rd Summer Season. (Courtesy photo)
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER – Trish Greenwood, Ridgway Elementary School’s new principal (here with husband Jim Nowak), is returning to the school where she began teaching, in 1989. (Courtesy photo)
HEALTHY FAWN – Leave them alone, even if they seem to be abandoned. They more-than-likely are not. (Photo courtesy of David Hannigan, Parks and Wildlife)
HIGH TIMES – The Gold Belt Theatre was part of the “small empire” of vice developed by the brothers Vanoli in late Victorian Ouray. The Ouray County Historical Society Evenings of History presentation next Tuesday (June 18) will look at artifacts from the Vanoli Block, and what it all means. (Courtesy photo)
BEN WAYNE LILLARD, 1957 - 2013
DIXIE KEITHLY, April 3, 1931 – June 9, 2013