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FACE DOWN GETS THUMBS UP – Chris Fish (left) and Tommy Thacher belly up to the bar at Telluride Brewing Company to show off their World Beer Cup plaque. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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The World Beer Cup recognizes Face Down Brown as the very best American-style Brown Ale.
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Ridgway’s May town council meeting considered further regulations on medical marijuana before the state’s moratorium ends July 1.
HOUSE HEARING – (Left to right in foreground) Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), and Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) held a joint oversight hearing in Montrose on Monday to hear testimony on the state’s bark beetle infestation and timber management practices. (Photo by Peter Shelton)
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Third District Rep. Scott Tipton joined two other Republican congressman in holding a field hearing on forest management practices in Montrose this week.
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The body of 54-year-old Jonathon Keith Kelly, a Grand Junction resident, was found yesterday in western San Miguel County.
DONE DEAL – U.S. Forest Service Lands Forester Jim Dunn and Ouray Mayor Bob Risch shake hands on a $277,000 deal that makes the City of Ouray the owner of 24 acres of USFS land in the Ouray Ice Park. (Photo courtesy of Ouray City Administrator Patrick Rondinelli)
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The City of Ouray is now the proud owner of 24 acres of former U.S. Forest Service land in the heart of the Ouray Ice Park. The deal, which has been 14 years in the making, gives the city greater c...
COLLEGIATE VOLLEYBALL BOUND – Telluride High School volleyball teammembers gathered with Emily Langley (front right) and Coach Fawnda Rogers (left), while Langley signed her NCAA National Letter of intent to play Collegiate Volleyball at Adams State College, Alamosa. She joins fellow volleyball star and once rival, Norwood High School’s Lindsy Stindt, who has signed to the same team. (Courtesy photo)
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Teaming Up: Norwood’s Lindsey Stindt and Telluride’s Emily Langley both head to Adams State, where they’ll continue their stellar volleyball careers – on the same team.
COUNSELING – Center for Mental Health therapist Leah Goetz sees inmates who test positive for substance abuse and mental health problems in her offices at the Montrose County jail. She conducts group therapy sessions at the jail, as well, in an effort to set inmates up for success upon their release. (Photo by Kati O'Hare)
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Mental health center therapists enter area jails to address substance abuse.
UP AND AWAY – Ouray High School students gather in front of the small plane that they will soon fly for the first time. From left: Bonnie Hansen, Steven Duce, Olivia Lockhart, Kyle Kinsel, Clay Zimmerman, Nicholas Pieper, Patrick Link. (Photo by Bill Swartz)
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During a recent day in the classroom, the students had flight maps, called VFR sectionals, spread out across the tables. Their assignment was to chart their own cross-country course from a starting...
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All parcels in the North Fork Valley from the August 2012 lease auction will receive further analysis by the BLM.
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The airport will be closed from Wednesday, May 30 through Saturday, June 2.
CAUGHT! – Three-year-old Brody Archer held up his fish at the Rotary Club Fishing Derby Saturday at Chipeta Lake in Montrose. (Photo by Kati O'Hare)
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Rotary fishing derby attracts hundreds of participants.
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By switching to an all-electronic records system, a patient’s health information will be available when and where it’s needed.
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Ouray’s water rights are junior to downstream users’ rights.
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Proposed new federal rules on hydraulic fracturing update 30-year-old BLM oil and gas drilling regulations.
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Montrose County airport project is moving along smoothly.
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Mallard and Garner retained their seats on Telluride’s Hospital District board, while Broderick and Ellison held their seats in the Telluride Fire Protection District election.
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Volunteers with the Ouray Trail Group are already out cleaning up winter’s debris.
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Students wearing T-shirts proclaiming support for those charged in an alleged sexual assault were instructed to remove them.
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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)
