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All Points Transit Executive Director Terri Wilcox says the goal for the next year is to get more people who need mobility onto the public bus routes in Montrose.
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A new foundation in Montrose, launched last month with a $10,000 anonymous gift, aims to support recreational opportunities.
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Hydropower from the Ridgway dam could be flowing into the grid as early as next winter.
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Hackett will continue as the director of the Institute for Altitude Medicine at the Medical Center.
NO SLACKERS are found in this classroom at Ridgway High School, where students took an ongoing concurrent enrollment course in General Psychology taught by instructor and college guidance counsellor Rick Williams that will earn them three college credits at Colorado Mesa University. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Taking college-concurrent courses requires a huge commitment on the part of the students with hopes they will pay off upon entering college.
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Colorado Hwy. 50, from Montrose to Gunnison, was reopened at approximately 10:30 p.m. Thursday night, following a three-hour investigation that determined a suspicious object found near the highway...
2-year-old Axel Charrette was killed on Feb. 28 in Sayulita, Mexico. (Courtesy photo)
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Memorial set for Tuesday has moved to the 4-H Event Center in Ridgway, with food and refreshments provided by area businesses.
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While its Werner Herzog Theatre will usher in a new era of maximum cinema enjoyment, organizers say the Telluride Film Festival will remain intimate, and will not be expanding its 2013 passholder b...
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The Montrose Board of County Commissioners has asked U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Daniel Ashe for an 60-day extension of the public comment period.
COURT HEARING - Veteran Jeremiah Aguilar, Dutch's owner, broke down in tears in court on Thursday. (Photo by William Woody)
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The attorney for Jeremiah Aguilar, whose dog Dutch attacked a Montrose woman now facing more than $28,000 in medical bills, has appealed a court ruling that the dog must be euthanized.
GUN CONUNDRUM – Ouray County Sheriff Junior Mattivi pointed to two rifles with identical fire power, and wondered why only one of them would be banned as an assault rifle under proposed gun control measures. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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The sheriff’s department has been processing a surge of new applications for concealed handgun permits – up to two or three per day in the weeks following the Sandy Hook massacre.
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An executive order issued last week paves the way for the CDPHE to make a formal decision on the proposed Piñon Ridge uranium Mill radioactive materials license in April.
AN ARTIST’S RENDERING of the 6,300 square-foot Hospice and Palliative Care Montrose office to be built at 735 S. Fourth Street in Montrose. (Courtesy Hospice and Palliative Care)
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In the current Hospice offices, at 645 S. Fifth Street, employees and volunteers have gotten used to sharing desks and office space, and are even keeping some workstations together with duct tape.
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Ridgway’s municipal election, slated for April, has been cancelled, because only four applications were received for four open council seats.
NEEDS WORK – Montrose School District RE-1J Board President Dr. Kjersten Davis (left to right), Community School Improvement Team member Melanie Hall and resident Jim Branscome spoke at Tuesday’s meeting called to address long-overdue improvements needed throughout the district. (Photo by William Woody)
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Improving student achievement, now trending downward in relation to both state and neighboring districts, was the number one priority, in the long-awaited Montrose Community School Improvement Team...
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Critics of the EAGLE-Net Alliance complain that the consortium is laying in fiber in areas where it already exists and thus directly competing with “small mom and pop” carriers.
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The Town of Telluride is over halfway toward meeting its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from town government facilities and operations 20 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2020, as pr...
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Grand Mesa Growers is poised to expand its medical marijuana grow facility south of Ridgway to accommodate what it predicts will be a huge surge in recreational demand.
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The summit is expected to bring more than 500 people to town, and will combine hands-on clinics, product demonstrations, outdoor excursions, films, art, music, leadership exercises and symposia.
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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)