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![HAPPY HOUR – "The Peaks is Back!" declared its Director of Marketing Mike Hess, and the après ski crowd that gathered on the newly expanded west-facing deck off the Grand Room Tuesday would suggest he's right. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/165/assets/DX70_peaks_deck_NEW.JPG "HAPPY HOUR – "The Peaks is Back!" declared its Director of Marketing Mike Hess, and the après ski crowd that gathered on the newly expanded west-facing deck off the Grand Room Tuesday would suggest he's right. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)")
HAPPY HOUR – "The Peaks is Back!" declared its Director of Marketing Mike Hess, and the après ski crowd that gathered on the newly expanded west-facing deck off the Grand Room Tuesday would suggest he's right. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Both hotel occupancy and sales are up dramatically, and an après ski crowd has discovered the new Great Room deck.
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A $1.02 million block grant to Extra Air was tabled temporarily by the state Financial Review Committee last week.
TRAGEDY AVERTED – Emergency technicians from Silverton and Ouray tended to accident victim Eric Petranek beside his flaming vehicle 300 feet below Hwy 550 last Friday night. (Photo by Mike Gibbs)
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A flaming car wreck off Red Mountain Pass last Friday resulted in a dramatic rescue.
ON LOCATION – George Gage (left) and Eliza Slayman worked on the documentary Bidder 70 in Salt Lake City during Tim DeChristopher’s federal trial. (Courtesy photo)
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While celebrating the end of the year at the KOTO Street Dance, stop into the Steaming Bean and support a film that will highlight Tim DeChristopher’s acts of civil disobedience.
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The Norwood Ranger District has some interesting projects on tap.
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Cleanup of the former Newmire Vanadium Mill east of Sawpit finished last November and San Miguel County is impressed with the results.
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Larry Mallard brings business acumen and strong community ties to the Telluride Hospital District Board.
SKYWALKER – Gary Woods and his hot-air balloon ‘Skywalker’, seen here floating above Ridgway, have been invited to a first-ever balloon event in Monument Valley, April 2-3. (Courtesy photo)
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Balloon pilot Gary Woods was selected to participate in a first-ever Hot-Air Balloon Event in Monument Valley.
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Visiting skiers were found atop cliffs in the same area from which skiers were rescued in February.
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McHale, currently superintendent of schools for the Dolores RE-4A School District in Dolores, has worked in education for 21 years.
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New agreement stems from a disagreement over the 7.4 percent surcharge SMPA enacted last August.
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Kyle Schumacher is currently assistant superintendent for educational services in Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Since others have their personal reasons, here are Cagin's.
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David W. Tunget, a previous sex offender, gets more than 15 years.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY – Ouray County Historical Museum’s Don Paulson showed photos of the Guston townsite to citizens on a Winter Mine Tour near Red Mountain Pass on Sunday. Co-sponsored by the Uncompahgre Watershed Project, the tour also focused on mine waste pollution in the region’s waters. (Photo by Peter Shelton)
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The Ouray County Historical Society and the Uncompahgre Watershed Project hosted a second annual winter mine tour on Red Mountain Pass.
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New Pinhead program packs a backpack-full of science for 2nd-6th graders to take home
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Three seats are open on the nine-member DMEA Board of Directors.
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Gold Run Project Nearly Sold… Telluride to State: No ATVS and Mind Your Own Business…2011 Town Tax Revenues Are Erratic.
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State plan to set up health insurance exchange explained in Montrose on April 7.
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Before deciding, the airport board will meet with the San Miguel County Commissioners to discuss the county's role in airport decisionmaking.
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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)