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The grant would help fund a whitewater park, trails and recreation field improvements.
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After a morning of presentations from county staff and SMVC representatives, the San Miguel County Planning Commission decided there were too many issues to sort out for an approval on Wednesday.
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Congress gives the thumbs-up to small hydro legislation. Now, advocates set their sites on companion legislation in the Senate.
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Two new faces are elected to rural electric cooperative’s board of directors.
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Thanks to a two-year U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant totaling $1.3 million, the Olathe Community Clinic can now better serve the area’s uninsured and under-insured populations
CONSERVATIONISTS celebrate the recent acquisition of almost 1,000 acres of mining claims in the Red Mountain district by the United States Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Conservationists celebrate the recent acquisition of almost 1,000 acres of mining claims in the Red Mountain district by the United States Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.
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Thanks to a donation of 20 acres of land in 1995 and a recent $15 million gift from Moab resident Wendy Walker-Tibbetts and her family, a 30-year master plan for USU’s Moab Campus envisions an educ...
GOING LOCAL – According to the San Miguel Power Association, the 500-kilowatt hydroelectric plant at the top of Bridal Veil Falls will generate enough electricity to power about 2,000 average American homes a year. (File photo)
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As of May 1, SMPA is purchasing the hydroelectric power generated by the Smuggler-Union Hydroelectric Power Plant that sits atop Bridal Veil Falls.
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Incumbents Hines and Collins keep their seats.
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Montrose City Manager Bill Bell was elected to the Colorado Municipal League Executive Board by municipal officials from around the state.
GREG CLIFTON has been named Town Manager of the Year by the Colorado City and County Management Association. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Telluride Town Manager Clifton was nominated by Councilmember Ann Brady and given the award at a recent Colorado City and County Management Association meeting.
THE HISTORIC Placerville School building is now owned by San Miguel County and structure renovations are planned. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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The San Miguel Board of County Commissioners approved the purchase of the Placerville Schoolhouse from the Telluride School District for $80,000 at its June 20 meeting in Telluride.
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Guston Depot destruction was “inadvertent.”
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Colorado Mesa University’s Montrose nursing program undergoes major improvements, thanks to capital improvements and a private donation.
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What’s inside the emergency water supply substitute plan the City of Ouray recently filed with the Colorado Division of Water Resources.
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Montrose County's Strategic Plan — a living document that outlines goals and measures progress — was recently updated to better reflect what the county can and is doing to achieve its priorities, a...
SITTING PRETTY – Charlotte Delpit with Fumie Hiromitsu set the table for the June Farm Dinner at Indian Ridge in Norwood, a multi-course farm-to-table dinner. Their July Farm Dinner has already sold out, but a late-summer Harvest Dinner will be scheduled soon. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Indian Ridge is a stellar example of Community Supported Agriculture, its bounty of produce purchased in advance and in bulk by the 65 households with memberships.
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In Hotchkiss, Citizens for a Healthy Community is suing the BLM, under the Freedom of Information Act, to learn the names of nominating parties for oil and gas leases.
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A Colorado Geologic Survey study of water quality in the Red Mountain mining district shows the surface water was likely acidic before the miners came.
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Telluride’s main street will be closed Wednesday evening for a two-hour concert performed by the Great Funktier.
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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)