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<b>SPLENDOR ON MAIN STREET</b> – After being lovingly restored by Dan and Mary King, Ouray’s 125-year-old Beaumont Hotel once again became a centerpiece of the community. A grand celebration to commemorate the Beaumont birthday takes place this Saturday, June 2, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., including a historic fashion show, hotel tours, door prizes, and ceremonial tribute to fallen miners and their
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Everyone’s invited to the Beaumont Hotel’s 125th birthday bash.
FIRE OUTLOOK – Along with parts of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah, the entire Western Slope of Colorado is expected to have a higher than average wildland fire potential this summer. (Courtesy image)
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Thanks to a La Niña climate pattern, the Western Slope is hot, dry, windy and highly susceptible to fire.
TELLURIDE SKATE CAMPERS – Cedar Palmer in a perfect-form Ollie off the big hubba. (Photo by Craig Wasserman)
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Craig Wasserman – artist, skateboarder, snowboarder and educator – is a pretty mellow dude. Until you get him talking about kids and skateboarding. His summer camp starts next month.
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The combination of unusually high temperatures and dry conditions, combined with light winter snowpack, have increased the risk for extreme wildfire, particularly as temperatures increase through J...
LOCAL INFESTATIONS of the whitetop on Wright’s Mesa are expected to reduce forage and hay production for 2012 and beyond. (Photo courtesy Sheila Grother)
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For another year, Wright’s Mesa landowners can take advantage of a whitetop cost share program that reduces the cost of the herbicide by 75 percent.
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Scott Stewart hopes his resignation from TMRAO will give the organization the space it needs to adjust to the ever-changing airline industry.
GOOD MODELS – Educators and administrators gathered to celebrate Ouray School’s model status for students with autism spectrum disorders, as recognized by the Colorado Department of Education. Back row, from left: UnBOCS clinical psychologist Sharon Sirotek, CDE Autism Coach Kate Loving, 2nd grade teacher Melissa Cervone, 3rd grade teacher Carol Turner, 4th grade teacher Jenny Hart, middle school teacher Greg Foy. Front row, from left: CDE COMASP Director Brook Young, 5th grade teacher Phylis Fagrelius, Dean of Students Di Rushing, Superintendent Scott Pankow, 6th grade teacher Darla Haselnus. (Courtesy photo)
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Ouray School is one of two schools in the entire state which has achieved model status as a school for children with autism spectrum disorders.
TEEN MOMS – Hulita Delacruz, Ana Nieto, Asia Broughton and Maria Navarro from the Passages Charter School in Montrose shared their stories with Ouray Middle School students. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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oung mothers who attend the Passages Charter School in Montrose do outreach to middle schools and high schools throughout the region to spread the message that parenthood is tough.
ON DECK – Captain Bob Harnish aboard the sloop Easter Tide, on Ridgway Reservoir. His business, Barnacle Bob’s Sailing Adventures, launches this summer, offering sailing excursions and lessons out of the marina at the State Park. Captain Bob says, “If you can sail the mountain lakes of Colorado, you can sail anywhere.” (Photo by Peter Shelton)
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Barnacle Bob’s Sailing Adventures launches this summer at Ridgway State Park.
DOGS' INN owner Patricia Traufield plays with her guests, most of whom are regular daycare clients, in one of three indoor/outdoor play areas. (Photo by Kati O'Hare)
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Montrose’s Dogs’ Inn takes a different approach to doggie daycare and boarding.
COFFEE TALK – Priscilla Peters has decided, after more than 20 years behind the counter at Cimarron Books and Coffeehouse in Ridgway, that it’s time to “pass the torch.” She doesn’t have a buyer yet. But the change feels right. (Photo by Peter Shelton)
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After 20-plus years, Priscilla Peters has decided to sell Cimarron Books and Coffeehouse in Ridgway.
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Water conservation measures will go into effect June 1, regulating the frequency and amount of irrigation on Mountain Village landscapes, including the golf course.
SMALL HYDRO – Ouray School 3rd graders visited the Ouray Hydroelectric Plant earlier this week – the oldest continuously running plant in the country. Its Pelton wheels churn out 800 Kw of clean green power on the banks of the Uncompahgre River. Pending legislation would streamline the regulatory process for small hydro projects. (Photos by Samantha Wright)
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Ouray Mayor Bob Risch, too, knows first-hand how FERC’s institutional unwieldiness can thwart all but the most stalwart proponents of small hydro; he spent 18 months and hundreds of hours navigatin...
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3M takes city, county offer to stay in Montrose.
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<b>TELLURIDE MOUNTAINFILM</b> - Presenter Chris Sharma, whose film, "King Lines," won the 2008 Charlie Fowler Award.
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This year marks the 34th Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, and true to its roots, there are films about life in the mountains.
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Ouray City Council voted unanimously to renew O’Brien’s liquor license, despite one neighbor’s complaint regarding late-night live music.
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At times awkward, Saunders and Myers sat before fellow members of council awaiting judgment on allegations of bias.
VANDALISM - Photos taken by an anonymous source last July show in detail the extent of vandalism and weather deterioration at the mine manager’s house and office at the lower Camp Bird Mine along County Road 361. In addition to broken windows and rooftops that have been crushed by snow load, there are disturbing images of historic maps strewn across the floor of the mine office, and fireplaces whose mantles have been removed. (Courtesy photos)
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A combination of vandalism and neglect have historic structures at the lower Camp Bird Mine slumping sadly toward ruin.
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But the only functioning mill in the region is needed to deal with beetle epidemics.
RELAY FOR LIFE - Area children released balloons to kickoff the 11th annual Relay For Life of Montrose County event at the Montrose High School track in June 2011. There were 33 teams that participated in the event. (Photo by Joel Blocker)
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Montrose County’s Relay For Life event is still in need of teams and support.
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
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