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What started out as a domestic disturbance turned into an arrest of an undocumented immigrant, who appeared to be dealing cocaine.
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Aaron James Ball, a 25-year-old new to Ridgway, was found dead at his apartment on January 16.
DQ’D – Pat Swonger, here in his hometown of Silverton, is considering contesting the state Democratic Party’s recent decision to disqualify him as a candidate in the race for House District 59. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
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Swonger sees the petition process as another way to engage voters, so they can help a fellow citizen get to the statehouse.
TWIRLING SUFIS – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, foreground, demonstrating a twirling ritual used by Sufi poet Rumi during her writing workshop at the Weehawken Creative Arts Center in Ridgway on Jan. 28. Trommer's new book of poems, The Miracle Always Happening, is a creative imagining of interactions with Rumi, in a contemporary context. (Photo by Joel Blocker)
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San Miguel County’s first poet laureate is crushing on a Persian mystic named Rumi.
JOKE GONE WRONG – Montrose police officers drew their weapons on a Dodge Durango Wednesday afternoon, after receiving a call that individuals inside the vehicle were putting on masks outside a bank, possibly to rob it. (Photo by Kati O’Hare)
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A car, four passengers, some in gorilla masks, draws armed response, stern warning, from Montrose police.
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Mountainfilm in Telluride will premier Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl, which examines the decade-long, manmade ecological disaster that began in 1930 and nearly ruined America’s breadbasket.
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In Ouray, a park for pooches.
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Ice skating in Norwood is becoming a new pastime thanks to the underutilized ‘Pig Palace’ at the County Fairgrounds.
WINTER MARKET – Karen Byler, far right, of Straw Hat Farm in Montrose answered questions about her products during Montrose's indoor Winter Farmers Market Jan. 21. The indoor farmers market is held on the first and third Saturdays of each month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the old city council chambers off of Centennial Plaza. (Photo by Joel Blocker)
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Locals get farmers market items even in winter
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Communities seek summer airline program support with donations.
TOP FORM – Rick Finkelstein carving down Aspen's Snowmass mountain. Paralyzed in a ski accident six years earlier, he was linking turns again on his first run in ‘The Movement,’ a movie screening as a benefit for benefit the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program Monday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. at Wilkinson Library. (Photo by Michael Faas)
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The Movement , a ski film produced by Kurt Miller, looks at what happens after a ski accident paralyzes a lifelong skier, chronicling his struggles to get back to the hill that nearly killed him.
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This spring, running enthusiasts of all abilities will be able to take part in a new six-part running event: the Ouray County Race Series.
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Paper, plastic, or neither?
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Montrose School District’s hiring freeze may have done more harm than good.
STAR SKIER - Telluride's Gus Kenworthy is expected to rock at the Winter X Games, which start today. (Photo by Robin MacDonald)
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Telluride’s Gus Kenworthy to make his X Games comeback this weekend in Aspen.
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<b>“GOD, I LOVE IT.”</b> – Wilkinson Library founder Larry Wilkinson, at 89, still gets out on Telluride’s mountain whenever he can. (Photos by Peter Shelton)
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From quonset hut to stone jail to five stars.
ZEST CREW – Chef/owner Mark Krasic (right) with sous chef Matt Gorman (center) and Jay Cheromcha (left) behind Zest’s 12-foot deli case. (Photo by Gus Jarvis)
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Gourmet food to go, daily specials, a salad bar, and affordable prices are the ideas behind Telluride’s newest dining establishment, Zest.
SILVER MINE – San Miguel Power Association workers installed a power line at the Revenue-Virginius mine near Yankee Boy Basin above Ouray Tuesday. A flurry of activity has taken place at the mine in recent months. New operators hope to resume mining operations at the historic silver property by 2013. (Photo courtesy of San Miguel Power Association)
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Denver company acquires historic silver mine near Ouray.
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Supporters of the beleaguered Home Safe Program are trying to find a way to keep it in operation.
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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)