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After Mumford and Sons’ cancellation due to a medical emergency, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell will close opening night of the 40th Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
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)
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The All American City award is a first for Montrose, after being a finalist in 1990.
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The conference can make a crucial difference for nonprofits of all kinds, during a time when the economy has caused local funding dollars designated for nonprofits to dry up.
TELLURIDE ACADEMY STAFF – Gathered for a pre-season photo just prior to the Monday, June 10, launch of its 33rd Summer Season. (Courtesy photo)
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The Telluride Academy kicks off its 33rd season, with camps covering everything from studying the local watershed and birds while paddling the San Miguel River and rock climbing to fixing a flat ti...
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The Montrose Recreation District is charging ahead with a Master Plan for its newly acquired 26 acres on Woodgate Road.
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)
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After 23 years with the Telluride Elementary School, as teacher and principal, Trish Greenwood is returning to Ridgway, to the place she began her teaching career in 1989.
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)
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Touching or moving a fawn is almost certainly a “death sentence” for the animal.
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)
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Xcel Energy is closing the recreational area in order to complete dam upgrades this year.
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The decision to offer Hazen a new contract was unanimous, said Ouray School Superintendent Scott Pankow. Hazen now has 30 days to sign the contract.
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Archery, fishing, jeeping, hiking, hot springs, prospecting, golf, camping, rafting, kayaking and horseback riding are the featured events for veterans to participate in.
WINNING CANDIDATE – Silverton native Terry Rhoades (pictured here at work on Friday) said he was surprised and happy that he won the SMPA District 7 election. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Election results were determined Thursday at SMPA’s annual meeting in Ridgway.
AXEL BENCH – Randy and Jen Charrette, with their son, Kalden, try out the new Axel Memorial Bench, designed and built by metal artist Lisa Issenberg, at the single-track trailhead in Weaver Park north of Ridgway. The Charrettes have started the Axel Project to introduce more young children, and their families, to the joys of cycling. (Courtesy photo)
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The Axel Project is up and rolling, with the goal of getting more young kids, and their families, on bicycles.
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A proposal to improve infrastructure at Baldridge Park, including the creation of a River Sports Park, has received a quarter million dollars in GOCO money.
INTERIM CHIEF OF POLICE – The City of Ouray has entered into an intergovernmental agreement to engage the services of Commander Gene Lillard of the Montrose Police Department to serve as the part-time interim police chief in Ouray. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Planning Commission denies variance request...Imogene Pass Now Open.
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Operating at 80 percent of capacity, Town Manager Greg Clifton said he felt compelled to introduce mandatory restrictions immediately to protect the town’s municipal water supply.
OFFICIAL TIMER – Dee Coram used his cell phone as a timer Tuesday at the Montrose Aquatic Center, where members of the delegation heading to Denver this weekend for the All-America City Competition practiced their 10-minute presentation. It will include a song about the joys of life in Montrose, visuals, talking points and a 10-minute Q&A with judges. (Photo by William Woody)
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The award would give Montrose national exposure – and might lead to the Welcome Home Montrose model being used by other communities
DUST LAYERS were thick and evident in the snowpack on top of Ophir Pass Tuesday afternoon. The dust accelerates the melting of the snowpack in Colorado’s high country, and a new study finds that the amount of dust being blown across the country is on the rise. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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A new study from University of Colorado scientists finds the amount of dust blown across the U.S. is increasing.
SECURITY CONCERNS – Montrose County School District Property Services Supervisor Jason Arebalos walked out the front door of Columbine Middle School Monday afternoon. The front door of the building is a growing security concern for district officials who say improvements must be made to the school even though the district lost a chance to secure grant money to replace the school. (Photo by William Woody)
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With the loss of funding to replace the school, built in 1961, officials are working to patch things together with temporary fixes to its crumbling foundation, poor air quality and the roof – as we...
MARIO ZADRA - The Ridgway native, in a photo taken last year, died on June 5, 2013. (Photo courtesy of Judy DeHass/TheDenver Post)
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Zadra was born in Ouray County and raised there and in Telluride and Norwood.
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Six exploratory locations and associated road upgrades for three roads were evaluated, and five were approved under this decision for a total disturbance of up to 14.7 acres.
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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)