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Forum to address mounting bark-beetle damage in southwest Colorado.
TIGHT QUARTERS – A conference room used in adult and child grieving programs at the Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado Montrose office located at 645 S. Fifth Street in Montrose. A new building in Montrose will more than triple Hospice's space. (Photo by William Woody)
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Hospice care is on the upswing in western Colorado, and a new facility, set for construction this fall, will more than triple the current Hospice’s space, and serve as a hub for training, counselin...
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Visual impacts final vote; ‘No ice climbing’ sign comes down; county website hosting – all discussed by BOCC this week.
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Meadows affordable housing development taken off agenda for Mountain Village DRB, postponed for later date; Eastern Partners will renotice all MV Meadows residents, providing more detailed informat...
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Last week, District Judge Mary Deganhart upheld the airport's 6 a.m. and 9 p.m operating hours, effectively ending a long and contentious legal dispute.
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The suit alleges that the new owners of the struggling development have stopped maintaining the golf course and clubhouse.
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The study could help answer the question about where a new medical center might be built, what it would contain, and how it would be funded.
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‘No Barriers’ Ams to Get Veterans Outdoors...City Rolls Out New Plans for Annual Spring Cleanup...Jury Trial Set for Appeal for Dutch
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With the threat of the Gunnison sage grouse being listed as endangered and more than 1.7 million acres of land being designated as critical habitat becoming a reality, 11 county governments are ple...
READY FOR A FIGHT Montrose County School Board members Tom West, left, and Phoebe Benziger listen to superintendent Mark MacHale Tuesday evening about the upcoming campaign to upgrade and modernize Montrose schools. (Photo by William Woody)
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The district is looking to generate $3.28 million this November, from either a voter-supported mill levy or a sales tax increase, in an effort to decrease class size and improve school security and...
THE ELEVATED TERRACE where Rocky Mountain Aggregate and Construction is proposing to build and operate a gravel pit on nearly 250 acres of land. (Photo by Gus Jarvis)
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Rocky Mountain Aggregate and Construction, LLC proposes to build and operate the Uncompahgre Gravel Pit on 247.76 acres of land atop a dry terrace surrounded by irrigated agricultural lands that wo...
DETERMINED to get to the top, Colombian climber Andres Marin, who winters in Ouray, tackled the difficult competition route at last year's Ouray Ice Festival. Marin was one of only two climbers to reach the top, and came in second place overall. He competed again this year. (File photo)
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The last day of climbing in the Ouray Ice Park is Sunday, March 31, but terrain downstream of the Upper Bridge is already closed due to deteriorating conditions.
BILLY ‘SENIOR’ MAHONEY AND TWYLLA MAHONEY, IN 2011. (File photo)
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Telluride legend Billy ‘Senior’ Mahoney to share stories of Telluride’s history at Ski Resort’s 40th anniversary event.
MONTROSE COUNTY SHERIFF RICK DUNLAP stood at a roadblock on Colorado Highway 92 south of Crawford on Monday March 25, after a one of his deputies had been shot. SWAT teams from Montrose, Delta and Mesa counties found a deceased man in his mid 50's in the house where the deputy was shot. (Photo by Dean Humphrey, courtesy The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)
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Montrose County Deputy Corey Larsen, shot twice while responding to a domestic violence call in Crawford is “in stable condition.”
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Representatives from a so-called “gang of 20” Colorado school districts including Ouray, Ridgway, Norwood and Telluride traveled en masse to Denver Tuesday to testify about how a new plan for fund...
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The CDPHE and Idarado Mining Company present a status report to the public on the 20-year-old Idarado Mine Remediation Project in Telluride on Monday March 25, and in Ouray on Tuesday, March 26.
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The second time around, the Montrose Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees won approval on a new lease agreement with Region 10 with no opposition from the Montrose Board of County Commissioners.
DEPLOYMENT CEREMONY – Members of the 928 Area Support Medical Company stood at attention at a deployment ceremony January 2011. The 928 returned to Montrose a year later. (Photo by William Woody)
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The 85-member group of medical professionals, teachers, police officers, construction workers, college students, husbands, wives, sons and daughters nicknamed “the Witch Doctors" will hold a commun...
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Delta police officers respond to reports of student with loaded handgun in Delta Middle School.
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL - Wes Perrin (left) posed with U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (right) at the State Democratic Convention in 2010. Perrin, a longtime resident of Telluride, died Wednesday, March 20, in Denver after a long battle with throat cancer. (Photo courtesy of Brian Ahern)
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A lifelong Democrat, Perrin battled throat cancer since 2010; he was first diagnosed in the midst of his campaign for the District 58 seat in the Colorado State Legislature.
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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)