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RUNNING FOR MAYOR – Ridgway’s Janet Smith. (Photo by Peter Shelton)
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‘Planet’ Janet Smith is running for Ridgway mayor against current Mayor Pro Tem John Clark.
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Youth Council to help peers find opportunities in Montrose for summer work.
WELL-INTEGRATED – Flanked by fellow Pilates instructor Marisa Haga and Zumba instructor Jill Huesgen at an open house Friday, March 9, Darin Fletcher showed off the expanded area of his Integrative Movement Center, which now occupies both main floor and basement suites in the Old Schoolhouse in Ridgway. Along with IMC’s other offerings, it now offers Pilates group equipment classes and spin classes on a daily basis. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Ridgway’s Integrative Movement Center expands to include a whole new room full of Pilates and spinning equipment.
MOVE TO AMEND – A custom Google map indicates the municipalities, organizations and local governments that have approved some form of resolution supporting the abolishment of corporate personhood. If Telluride passes a symbolic resolution, it would be one of three municipalities in Colorado to do so. Key: Blue = Municipalities, Pink = Organizations, Green = Colleges and Universities, Red = Unions, Purple = States, and Yellow = In progress. To watch the progress of the map, search Google Resolutions and Ordinances Abolishing Corporate Personhood. (Map by Google maps)
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Town staff directed to draft symbolic ordinance to abolish corporate personhood in the wake of 2010 Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case.
STIFF COMPETITION – Stephanie Dudash completed a 75-pound push press rep during an 18-minute workout competition in the CrossFit Games at the CrossFit Agoge Gym in Montrose. (Photo by Kati O'Hare)
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Thirty CrossFit members take on weekly workout challenge in national competition.
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SMPA will purchase the electricity produced by Paradox Valley solar panels owned by members as well as those that have not been sold.
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Dan Chancellor running for District 3 seat while Christine McGinley contemplates run against Elaine Fischer in District 1 Democratic Primary.
ALICE BILLINGSin the paddock, enjoying some cuddle-time with Liberty, aka Libby, a wild mustang she recently adopted from the Spring Creek herd. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Ridgway’s “Horse Lady” finds new life lessons with a young mustang she adopted from the Spring Creek herd. She’s got an art opening and book signing coming up at Cimarron Books and Coffee in Ridgwa...
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Montrose officials are excited about the potential for the river property.
MELLOW MAD MEN – Ad men Brian Scranton (right) and Jay Graham of “strategic communications firm” GrahamSpencer, hard at work in front of their offices on Clinton Street in Ridgway. GrahamSpencer won 16 ADDYs at last month’s American Advertising Federation awards ceremonies. (Courtesy photo)
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Local ad firm GrahamSpencer took home a record-setting number of ADDY awards last month.
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The quest for the Gold Run childcare operator underway, but is Telluride’s daycare dilemma as dire as it once was?
BORN TO RUN – Outgoing Ridgway Mayor Pat Willits announced his candidacy for county commissioner this week. (Photo by Peter Shelton)
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Long-time Ridgway Mayor Pat Willits has decided to run for Heidi Albritton’s commissioner seat against Republican (and other former mayor) Don Batchelder.
TODAY STAR Silverton Standard editor Mark Esper in his office. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Silverton Standard to be featured on NBC’s Today Show .
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Pat Byrd Opens the Executive Plaza – where offices for rent by the half-day or the hour, for Montrose’s business and nonprofit community.
INTO THE MIX – Silty spring runoff from Dry Creek mixed into the clear waters of the San Miguel River at their confluence below Naturita on Monday afternoon. Always contentious, water in the San Miguel Basin is now being claimed by Montrose County for projected mining-fueled growth. (Photo By Brett Schreckengost)
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In a controversial move, Montrose County has claimed “extensive water rights” in the San Miguel Basin (including in neighboring San Miguel County) to support mining-driven growth in the West End.
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Spuint Juanita Moore Scholarship available...Two SMPA Board Seats Up for Election...
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Silverton’s Patrick Swonger has withdrawn his District 59 bid to support Mike McLachlan.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found the state’s approval process of the Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill was flawed.
IN HIS ELEMENT – Rob Liberman doing what he did best in Bear Creek, 2010. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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‘He was a skier first, above all things.’
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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)