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Murder suspect had lived with his two victims.
The biggest issue may be whether to allow the owner of specified parcels of active open space - including the ski company - to apply for new zoning.
In addition to the possible legal action, the San Miguel County Commissioners have asked the Telluride Regional Airport Authority board to delay its decision.
Two classic Telluride controversies are being driven by overstatement from opponents.
Telluride tourism numbers have remained even, despite a challenging snow year.
The deaths of Scott Clark and Kama Sanburg are ruled homicides.
BEST LANDSCAPING – The Horsefly Brewing Company at 846 East Main Street received the Landscaping Project of the Year Award from the Montrose City Planning Commission by creating an outdoor dining space and landscaping along Main Street. (Photo courtesy of the City of Montrose)
Horsefly Brewing Co. in Montrose wins city’s landscaping award.
Failing to secure grant funding to offset the $1 million cost difference between a signal light and roundabout at Society Turn, Telluride’s Town Manager will propose they pay the balance with later...
A report released last week by a subcommittee of the Telluride Regional Airport Authority Board of Directors sees expanded year-round operating hours as key to a successful facility.
LEND AN EAR — The sweet corn will be free again this year at the Olathe Sweet Corn Festival, and for its 20th anniversary the town-sponsored festival has been extended to two days, Aug. 5-6, with vintage rockers The Guess Who on Friday night and country singer/songwriter Aaron Tippin on Saturday night. (Photo courtesy of the Olathe Sweet Corn Festival)
The Guess Who, Aaron Tippin to headline Olathe Sweet Corn Festival.
Ouray County “envisions” its economic future for the governor’s Bottom-Up Economic Development Plan.
NORWOOD MAVERICK Shelby Brier (24) drove around Simla’s Jessica George in the state 1A semi-final game last weekend at the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley. Norwood lost to eventual champion Simla 36-28. (Photo by Kathryn Wescott)
Two area teams made it to the state basketball championships this year, Ouray’s boys and Norwood’s girls.
GONE FISHING – John Colcolough hooked a rainbow trout on the lower San Miguel River near Placerville, as guide John Warren looked on. This section is one of three along the San Miguel River now in the process of obtaining Congressional Wild and Scenic designation. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
Recommendations that 13 of 21 local river segments found eligible for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System also be deemed suitable for the designation is seen as a good balance b...
The proposed plan will go to the Montrose City Planning Commission on March 23, and then go before the Montrose City Council sometime in April.

MONTROSE INVITATIONAL TRACK MEET – Ouray’s Geordyn MacDougall (left) and Telluride’s Emy Ludwig competed in the 100m low hurdles in April 2010, in Montrose. (File photo)
A new combined Telluride and Norwood track and field recipe is bound to cook up some dynamite.
LONG WAY UP – Ouray Mountain Rescue captain Mike MacLeod rode the litter with a “broken up” climbing victim from the bottom of the Uncompahgre Gorge to the Upper Bridge last Friday afternoon. (Photo by Mike Bryson)
A Canadian climber was seriously injured in a lead fall at the Ouray Ice Park last weekend.
Amidst criticism about upzoning active open space in Mountain Village for hotel development, support runs strong for the Town Hall subarea proposal.
Brian Scranton and his company, GrahamSpencer have scored an on-line hit with a video about Rockford, Ill., the place Wisconsin state senators escaped to.
'Out of the West' features new works by artists Dan Deuter, Barbara Churchley and Gina Grundemann.
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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)
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)

