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Work begins on a market analysis of downtown Montrose.
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Data for the first financial quarter show town coffers to be 10 percent ahead of last year for January, February and March in terms of sales tax income.
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)
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The 3rd annual RAT Fest returns to Ridway’s Hartwell Park amid growing excitement for new mountain bike trail building in the area.
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The contentious San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act will likely be a topic of discussion.
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Brokers in the region are enthusiastic for 2013’s possibilities in more ways than one.
SAFETY FIRST – Surrounded by students, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill into law at Ouray School on Thursday afternoon that seeks to enhance school safety across Colorado by providing support at the state level to hire more school resource officers. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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The Ouray Public School rolled out the red carpet for Gov. Hickenlooper and two state legislators on May 23 for a bill signing ceremony celebrating new legislation that seeks to make Colorado’s sch...
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The organization's mission is to secure state control and ownership of federal public lands.
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)
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Volunteers and staff with Welcome Home Montrose are creating new patriotic wind chimes to decorate Montrose with in observance of Memorial Day.
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The “miracle” of fracking may come soon to a drill rig near you.
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The owner of Dutch, the 107-pound dog accused of attacking a Montrose woman last year, is defying a court order while appealing to another court to stay the dog's euthanasia order.
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)
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Following a full restoration at Ridgway’s Railroad Museum, the historic railcar is back in Telluride.
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Assistant Public Works Director Dan Loncar has been named interim director of Montrose County’s public works department.
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Acknowledging the vote of the people, Montrose City Councilors are working to become one of the first municipalities in the state to permanently ban retail marijuana sales.
WANTING ANSWERS – Ouray hotelier and former city councilor Betty Wolfe expressed her concern about the recent police department resignations, and demanded answers, at last Monday’s Ouray City Council meeting as a crowd of about 30 community members watched. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Justin Crandall, the sole officer to remain in the department, said some basic services provided by the department may be curtailed for moment, including VIN inspections and fingerprinting.
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Ronald McGuffee was arrested on a 7th Judicial District Drug Task Force warrant for Unlawful
Possession of a Schedule II Controlled Substance With Intent to Distribute.
ROBERT JUSTIS (Courtesy photo)
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Justis anticipates that it will be a challenge “getting everyone pulling in the same direction” on SMPA’s board.
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Greenhouse demo units demonstrate that growing food in urban or high altitude climates is possible.
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Full restoration of the Wright Opera House will come in phases over the next five to seven years as projects and their dependencies are established and budgeted for in advance.
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The Telluride Town Council gave a general thumbs-up for TSRC to enter into a public/private partnership with the town to secure land for the construction of a world-class science center in the hear...
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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)