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Hackett will continue as the director of the Institute for Altitude Medicine at the Medical Center.
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Colorado Hwy. 50, from Montrose to Gunnison, was reopened at approximately 10:30 p.m. Thursday night, following a three-hour investigation that determined a suspicious object found near the highway...
2-year-old Axel Charrette was killed on Feb. 28 in Sayulita, Mexico. (Courtesy photo)
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Memorial set for Tuesday has moved to the 4-H Event Center in Ridgway, with food and refreshments provided by area businesses.
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While its Werner Herzog Theatre will usher in a new era of maximum cinema enjoyment, organizers say the Telluride Film Festival will remain intimate, and will not be expanding its 2013 passholder b...
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The Montrose Board of County Commissioners has asked U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Daniel Ashe for an 60-day extension of the public comment period.
COURT HEARING - Veteran Jeremiah Aguilar, Dutch's owner, broke down in tears in court on Thursday. (Photo by William Woody)
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The attorney for Jeremiah Aguilar, whose dog Dutch attacked a Montrose woman now facing more than $28,000 in medical bills, has appealed a court ruling that the dog must be euthanized.
GUN CONUNDRUM – Ouray County Sheriff Junior Mattivi pointed to two rifles with identical fire power, and wondered why only one of them would be banned as an assault rifle under proposed gun control measures. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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The sheriff’s department has been processing a surge of new applications for concealed handgun permits – up to two or three per day in the weeks following the Sandy Hook massacre.
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An executive order issued last week paves the way for the CDPHE to make a formal decision on the proposed Piñon Ridge uranium Mill radioactive materials license in April.
AN ARTIST’S RENDERING of the 6,300 square-foot Hospice and Palliative Care Montrose office to be built at 735 S. Fourth Street in Montrose. (Courtesy Hospice and Palliative Care)
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In the current Hospice offices, at 645 S. Fifth Street, employees and volunteers have gotten used to sharing desks and office space, and are even keeping some workstations together with duct tape.
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Ridgway’s municipal election, slated for April, has been cancelled, because only four applications were received for four open council seats.
NEEDS WORK – Montrose School District RE-1J Board President Dr. Kjersten Davis (left to right), Community School Improvement Team member Melanie Hall and resident Jim Branscome spoke at Tuesday’s meeting called to address long-overdue improvements needed throughout the district. (Photo by William Woody)
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Improving student achievement, now trending downward in relation to both state and neighboring districts, was the number one priority, in the long-awaited Montrose Community School Improvement Team...
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Critics of the EAGLE-Net Alliance complain that the consortium is laying in fiber in areas where it already exists and thus directly competing with “small mom and pop” carriers.
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The Town of Telluride is over halfway toward meeting its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from town government facilities and operations 20 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2020, as pr...
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Grand Mesa Growers is poised to expand its medical marijuana grow facility south of Ridgway to accommodate what it predicts will be a huge surge in recreational demand.
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The summit is expected to bring more than 500 people to town, and will combine hands-on clinics, product demonstrations, outdoor excursions, films, art, music, leadership exercises and symposia.
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‘Going Green’ is the theme of this week’s First Friday Stroll in downtown Montrose.
COLD WORDS – Ouray County Road and Bridge Superintendent Chris Miller recently erected this sign along the Camp Bird Road, angering local guides and ice climbers. (Courtesy photo)
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Ice climbers and local guides were shocked and angered last weekend when they came across a sign that appeared to ban them from accessing a favorite backcountry climbing area alongside the Camp Bir...
REAL ESTATE PERSPECTIVE – At Tuesday’s hearing Broker Donna Whiskeman warned of the unintended consequences that she said would be a reality if new visual impact regulations are passed in Ouray County. (Photo by Gus Jarvis)
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Perhaps the most divisive amendment to Section 9 is the expansion of visual impact corridors to include more than 40 roads throughout the county.
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Dutch's fate now lies within the Montrose County District Attorney's Office.
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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)
