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The film is a powerful documentary about the social and environmental impacts of natural gas drilling in Garfield County.
The event on Saturday, April 13, will raise money for the Ridgway Area Mountainbike School.
HANDS-ON PERMACULTURE – Students learn how to apply the principles through the building of an herb spiral at Tomten Farm (top); students present a design at Tomten Farm (bottom). (Courtesy photos)
“Permaculture Design ... should be common knowledge for everyone,” said Robyn Wilson, facilitator and co-instructor for the UCSM’s fourth annual Permaculture Design course July 20-August 3.
From a small business resource center to expanded assisted living services, Region 10 continues to leverage resources in providing a long list of services to its member communities.
Illegal stocking of smallmouth bass in Miramonte Reservoir will force Colorado Parks and Wildlife to partially drain the lake and treat it with an organic pesticide to kill all the fish in early fall.
Traffic calming measures for Colorado Avenue in the works…Town expects SMVC access permit this summer.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 1,838 DAYS – Adventurer and educator Erden Eruç, who traveled around the world solely on human power, will join Mountainfilm’s 35th annual celebration of indomitable spirit this Memorial Day weekend. (Courtesy photo)
Mountainfilm Festival Director David Holbrooke is “hopeful but not naïve” about this year’s symposium topic, Climate Solutions.
In addition to concerns about an overall negative economic impact, Montrose commissioners don’t believe population statistics on sage grouse are accurate.
The City of Ouray is once again bracing for a water call from downstream senior water rights holders this summer.
Until Tuesday’s meeting, it seemed that members of the Telluride Town Council were ready to ask voters in November to approve the formation an RTA.
Montrose County Sheriff’s deputies seize meth, firearms and drug paraphernalia upon executing a traffic stop
It’s time for First Friday Stroll, and downtown Montrose will be gussying up for the occasion.
CLEAN SWEEP – Nugget Theater Manager Luci Reeve swept the popcorn from the aisles one last time Wednesday morning. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
But the Telluride Film Festival announces they will name a new operator and the show will go on.
FRESH SNOW blanketed the tailings pile in the upper Ilium Valley Wednesday morning. Voluntary remediation work completed by PacifiCorp has not worked to keep heavy metals out of the San Miguel River drainage. A new settlement will obligate the company to investigate and take corrective actions. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
A settlement was reached obligating PacifiCorp to investigate and take further remediation actions regarding the Silver Bell Tailings near the Ophir turn on U.S. Hwy. 145.
RESPONSE CONCERNS – Montrose resident Carl Rite spoke directly to Montrose Police Sgt. Chris Worthington about spent tactical munitions, pictured on the table, found days after Sunday’s standoff, Tuesday evening at the Montrose City Council Chambers. (Photo by William Woody)
Resident Carl Rite used the public comment period to hammer councilors and Montrose police about the high number of officers who responded to a tense standoff along South Townsend Ave. on Sunday.
The restrictions come on the heels of reports from the Colorado Water Availability Task Force that southwestern Colorado may experience drought conditions this spring and summer.

STANDOFF – Members of the Montrose Police Department SWAT and Special Response Unit fired tear gas into the auto repair building at 310 S Townsend Ave. in Montrose Sunday evening during a standoff with an unknown person inside. Townsend Avenue and a number of other joining city streets were blocked off and members of the public were kept away for their safety. (Photo by William Woody/watchnewspapers.com)
The man taken into custody Sunday night following a five-hour standoff with police is recovering from self-inflicted wounds from a box cutter and/or razor blades.
Forum to address mounting bark-beetle damage in southwest Colorado.
TIGHT QUARTERS – A conference room used in adult and child grieving programs at the Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado Montrose office located at 645 S. Fifth Street in Montrose. A new building in Montrose will more than triple Hospice's space. (Photo by William Woody)
Hospice care is on the upswing in western Colorado, and a new facility, set for construction this fall, will more than triple the current Hospice’s space, and serve as a hub for training, counselin...
Visual impacts final vote; ‘No ice climbing’ sign comes down; county website hosting – all discussed by BOCC this week.
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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)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)
