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The theme of this year’s TED Conference is “Full Spectrum.”
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Due to lynx habitat, future grooming of “Tom’s Loop” and “South Meadow Trail” must go through a proper process and analysis with the U.S. Forest Service.
MAP QUEST – Existing wilderness is dark blue; the proposed San Juan Mountains Wilderness shows here in lime green, including the Whitehouse Addition to the Mt. Sneffels Wilderness, and the Sheep Mountain Special Management Area south of Ophir. (Reprinted courtesy of Sheep Mountain Alliance)
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Still on the fence about the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Bill, Tipton will not attend third “listening session” in Telluride next week.
CIVIC POWERHOUSE – Ridgway-Ouray Community Council’s Citizen of the Year for 2012, Dee Williams, has been an energizing force, since 1975, in everything from the Ouray County Nordic Council to saving the Wright Opera House. (Courtesy photo)
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Ouray’s civic powerhouse, Dee Williams, is this year’s Ridgway-Ouray Community Council Citizen of the Year.
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ON THE STUMP – GOP Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum made a stop in Montrose on Saturday looking for support in Tuesday’s Colorado Primary. (Photos by Gus Jarvis)
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The Republican candidate told a large audience on Saturday that he’s a true conservative who can offer a sharp contrast to President Obama.
FOLLOWING HIS PASSION – For 20 years, Dr. David Homer has been Telluride’s “Town Doc” at his private Telluride Family Practice. In April, he’ll be the full-time medical director of the Uncompahgre Medical Center in Norwood. Picture is Homer with his 5-year-old son Noah on Wednesday. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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In a bittersweet decision, Dr. David Homer his following his passion and has accepted a full-time position as medical director of the UMC in Norwood.
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While there is a need for the free late night transportation program, operating such a service is complicated and few answers have yet to be found.
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While commiserating those who are affected by smart meters, the commissioners believe there is not enough data to make a strong case for or against them…BOCC makes its collective voice heard on a v...
READY FOR USE – Donna Harrison, kitchen coordinator for The Shepherd's Hand, points to her new cooking utensils at the facility, 17 N. Sixth St., while a donated washer and dryer for visitors to use sits in the background waiting for a load of clothes. (Photo by Kati O'Hare)
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New soup kitchen provides more than soup in Montrose.
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ALL GUSSIED UP – Gertrude and Jerald Perotti dressed up for the camera. The Perottis were among the oldest ranching families in Ouray County, going back four generations. Gertrude died last week at 95. (Photo courtesy of Rolan Perotti)
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Harmonica-packing Ouray native Gertrude Perotti, one of the last of a pioneer ranching generation, died last week at 95.
ON THE JOB – Crewmen from Ridgway Valley Enterprises form the walls of the new Justice Center Annex building on Jan. 31 south of the Justice Center in Montrose. (Photo by Kati O’Hare)
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The project stems from the state's requirement that the county – home to the 7th Judicial District – provide two additional courtrooms and a new hearing room for the additional judges being added t...
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What started out as a domestic disturbance turned into an arrest of an undocumented immigrant, who appeared to be dealing cocaine.
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Aaron James Ball, a 25-year-old new to Ridgway, was found dead at his apartment on January 16.
DQ’D – Pat Swonger, here in his hometown of Silverton, is considering contesting the state Democratic Party’s recent decision to disqualify him as a candidate in the race for House District 59. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Swonger sees the petition process as another way to engage voters, so they can help a fellow citizen get to the statehouse.
TWIRLING SUFIS – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, foreground, demonstrating a twirling ritual used by Sufi poet Rumi during her writing workshop at the Weehawken Creative Arts Center in Ridgway on Jan. 28. Trommer's new book of poems, The Miracle Always Happening, is a creative imagining of interactions with Rumi, in a contemporary context. (Photo by Joel Blocker)
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San Miguel County’s first poet laureate is crushing on a Persian mystic named Rumi.
JOKE GONE WRONG – Montrose police officers drew their weapons on a Dodge Durango Wednesday afternoon, after receiving a call that individuals inside the vehicle were putting on masks outside a bank, possibly to rob it. (Photo by Kati O’Hare)
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A car, four passengers, some in gorilla masks, draws armed response, stern warning, from Montrose police.
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Mountainfilm in Telluride will premier Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl, which examines the decade-long, manmade ecological disaster that began in 1930 and nearly ruined America’s breadbasket.
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In Ouray, a park for pooches.
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Ice skating in Norwood is becoming a new pastime thanks to the underutilized ‘Pig Palace’ at the County Fairgrounds.
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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)
