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First Friday Stroll in Downtown Montrose includes wine tastings, food, shopping and demos.
For DMEA Board, Six Candidates, Three Seats, Two Forums
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER – Koichi Koyama of the Japan Electric Power Information Center (JEPIC) and Takahiro Immaru of Kyushu Electric, a power company serving eight million customers in southern Japan, talk with Doug Kiesewetter of BrightLeaf Solar Technologies, a Montrose-based concentrating PV manufacturing company. The Japanese energy experts visited BrightLeaf and DMEA as part of a research effort to explore solar marketing concepts. (Courtesy photo)
Japanese power utilities visited Delta-Montrose Electric Association looking for ways to accelerate the integration renewable energy resources into their power grid.
A Ouray-based trio has bought a small local specialty coffee roasting company from its founders.
Council to reduce Dial-A-Ride service this summer, and eliminate it next summer.
The third annual Randy Skees Memorial West End 4x4 Poker Tour hits the back roads around Paradox on June 9. The route is always a surprise and the funds benefit the Nucla-Naturita Area Chamber of C...
Telluride's Hilaree O'Neill is part of the National Geographic expedition.
Mountain Air Music Series brings honky-tonk, funk, bluegrass and rock and roll to Ouray, each Thursday this June.

BRAIN POWER – Members of Ouray High School’s Knowledge Bowl team waited patiently for a round to begin at the state tournament in Colorado Springs last week. The Trojans (left to right) – Patrick Link, Nicholas Pieper, Allie Daughtry, Daniel Degenhardt and Will MacCraiger – took second place in the 1A division for the second year in a row. (Courtesy photo)
Ouray’s Knowledge Bowl team took second place at the state tournament for the second year in a row.

THE HAVEN HOUSE Transitional Living Center, 4806 N. River Road, is the only home for homeless families between Grand Junction and Durango, according to its board. (Photo by Kati O'Hare)
Housing for homeless families celebrates its first year
D.A.'s office says the 'investigation overall is still ongoing.'

KEVIN KELL believes more needs to be done to promote economic development in San Miguel County. (Courtesy photo)
A third District 3 candidate has entered the San Miguel County Commissioner race. Republican Kevin Kell will run against Green incumbent Art Goodtimes and Democrat Dan Chancellor.
Should a regional transportation authority be approved by voters in the fall, a separate and legal taxing authority would be put in place to begin working on the region’s transportation issues.
Phil Lesh & Friends, Gov’t Mule and the B-52s will headline this year’s Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
Montrose County released “expert reports” on its water rights applications this week.
Silverton mining consultant John Wright is publishing a book, Blazing Ice , about his team’s road building in Antarctica.

ON THE RIVERFRONT – Montrose resident Kenny Robinson fishes along a section of the Uncompahgre
River that recently became public. The one-acre parcel is part of a 35-acre piece that was acquired by the
City of Montrose and Delta Montrose Electric Association on Friday, April 20. (Photo by Joel Blocker)
A one-mile stretch of the Uncompahgre River goes public.
Fair organizers are adding the excitement of a demolition derby to an already action packed lineup of fun at this year’s San Miguel Basin Fair and Rodeo, coming July 20-28.
Montrose County is awarded court costs from its July 2011 victory
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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)
