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CATCHING A DRIFT – Visiting from Austin, Texas, angler Blake Reed enjoyed an early morning fly-fishing session on the South Fork of the San Miguel River Wednesday. Thanks to the creative efforts of the Gunnison Gorge Anglers chapter of Trout Unlimited, overall fishing on the San Miguel has improved since ice-floe issues were solved. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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In 28 years of conservation work, the Gunnison Gorge Anglers Chapter of Trout Unlimited has left its mark.
ROAD CLOSURE – Motorists will encounter single-lane alternating traffic at a cribwall project on Red Mountain Pass through September, as well as periodic full traffic holds in both directions of up to 15 minutes during work hours. An additional overnight closure is scheduled for July 23. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Motorists should plan on at least one more overnight road closure on U.S. 550 Red Mountain Pass, on July 23.
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Tense, confusing and obtuse. These would be three words to describe a discussion which took place at a lengthy Ouray City Council meeting on Monday.
3rd Congressional District candidate Sal Pace (right) with an Olathe corn farmer at a recent visit. (Courtesy photo)
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Third District Congressional candidate Sal Pace has put 25,000 campaign miles, so far, on his old Ford pickup. He was in Ouray County last weekend. And he’ll be back.
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Parks and wildlife will suspend bag limits during dam reconstruction.
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While the recent rains have provided some relief, fire managers are monitoring and evaluating whether the rains will have a lasting impact on long-term fire conditions.
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This week, SMBA Vice President Trevor Martin stood on the periphery of the just-constructed pump track as volunteers helped to put the finishing touches on the Town Park’s new 45-foot wide, 75-foot...
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Montrose Indians Head Coach Landon Wareham expects the tournament to bring in up to 300 players, parents and fans from around the Midwest.
OUT THERE MAN – Ophir extreme endurance athlete Joe Shults paused on a long, cold mountain bike ride somewhere recently. At the end of July, as a fundraiser for the dZi Foundation, he is tackling the Colorado Trail Race, from Denver to Durango, a self-supported mountain bike ride that fewer than half the participants finish. (Courtesy photo)
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The Colorado Trail Race, connecting Denver to Durango by mountain bike, is a brutal 470-mile grind. Ohpir’s Joe Shults and Boulderite Brad Platt are attempting it at the end of July to raise money ...
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The Telluride Film Festival has selected American writer, editor, publisher and philanthropist Dave Eggers as its 39th Telluride Film Festival poster artist.
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Hopefully by the end of next week, the produce stand will be up and running in an empty lot north of the Shell service station at Main and San Juan.
NO SLACKERS - Elks Park in Telluride comes to life this Friday and Saturday from 1-3 p.m. with interactive demonstrations of slack line yoga and acro yoga with the YogaSlackers, pictured here last year. (Photo courtesy of Jyoti)
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Hundreds of yogis from near and far are flowing, stretching and ommmming their way toward Telluride for the fifth annual Telluride Yoga Festival.
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All around the state, local citizens will be gathering to manually pull weeds not only to beautify their counties, but to reduce the amount of herbicides in use.
![FIRST PLACE - "Telluride Firefighter Pride" (By Jay Wiskerchen)](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/165/assets/65UE_hotshot1st_place.JPG "FIRST PLACE - "Telluride Firefighter Pride" (By Jay Wiskerchen)")
FIRST PLACE - "Telluride Firefighter Pride" (By Jay Wiskerchen)
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First place went to Jay Wiskerchen of West Hollywood, Calif. for 'Telluride Firefighter Pride,' who won $500 for his entry.
IMAGINEER – Ridgway Creative District committee member (and painter) Stephanie Rogers held up a t-shirt promoting this Saturday’s Imagination Day in Town Park. The committee will be “wrapping” big cottonwoods “Cristo style” to create massive drawing/writing boards, on which the community can contribute ideas for Ridgway’s artistic future. (Photo by Peter Shelton)
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Ridgway’s Creative District committee is holding an Imagination Day picnic and brainstorming session in Town Park this Saturday to get ideas for an artistic future.
IT’S RAINING IT’S POURING – Zander Sante watches as Morgan Johnson tested out his Wellies in a Town Park mud puddle on Sunday afternoon at the KOTO Doo Dah. Several days of monsoon rains have transformed the brown dry alpine landscape into a lush green. Despite the monsoonal moisture, water restrictions in Telluride are still in effect. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Town Manager: ‘We are not out of the woods on this matter by any stretch, but there may be cause to make some adjustments.’
JUNIOR MEN'S water fight teams Steven Duce and Jaxon Gaita of Ouray (left) and Corbyn Robinson and Harley Rider of Ridgway (right) duked it out in a ferocious 12-minute brawl. The Ouray boys emerged the eventual victors. (Courtesy photo by Glenn Boyd)
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In the Women’s division, Eva Stovicek and Sara Martinez, who enjoyed the uphill advantage, rapidly dispatched Nicole Edder and Jordan Herndon in a skirmish that lasted only about two minutes.
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The Mountain Village Council approved and ordinance that would enable open containers in the Village Core.
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Pipeline work and a groundbreaking for the Telluride water treatment facility is expected this summer while the town continues to fight Idarado in court.
LATE NIGHT LOUDNESS – Mike Gwinn and the North Fork Flyers at a recent gig at O’Briens Pub and Grill in Ouray. A complaint about such late-night live music prompted the Ouray City Council to reevaluate its noise ordinance. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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It is easy to agree something ought to be done to improve Ouray’s confusing noise ordinance. But, as the Ouray City Council discovered, there’s a lot of devil in the details of how to do so.
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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
TROUT LAKE is currently being drained in order for Xcel Energy, which owns the recreational area, to complete work on the output of the lake’s dam. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)