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Subcommittee Vote Indicates Bipartisan Support
Volunteers are needed every other Tuesday at the hummingbird banding and monitoring station that is set up near Dunton Hot Springs.
Second Annual Rundola Fourth of July / Community Briefs
The identies of the victims in an apparent murder-suicide have not been released.
GOLD MINER/Snowboarder Jimmy Dorsey's career has taken some strante turns on the way to Telluride (pictured left, with characteristic bushy red beard and missing tooth). (Courtesy photo)
The erstwhile star of Gold Rush prospects for a new kind of mining reality show.
Somehow, despite sketchy snow, Telluride bucked the trend and was slightly up.

WATER CONSERVATION IN EFFECT - According to Telluride Ski and Golf, the company has drastically cut back its water usage on the golf course this summer, in line with water restrictions imposed by the Town of Mountain Village. Residents are now limited to 70 percent of normal water consumption for landscaping. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
Fireworks in Ouray and Telluride have not been canceled ... yet.
In an unrelated incident, one of three tenants was seriously injured in an dirt bike accident on Saturday.

The Telluride region is an island of tan in a sea of red on this map posted by the National Weather Service on Friday. The Red Flag Warning is in effect through Saturday.
The fire danger is higher than it has been in Western Colorado in a decade.
HARVEST TIME – Intern Robin Lewis harvested parsley from the Indian Ridge Farm garden in Norwood Tuesday in preparation
for the garden’s first distribution of the summer season. Indian Ridge also sells its produce and baked goods at the weekly
Telluride Farmers Market, which opens this Friday. The Ridgway Farmers Market debuts Friday, as well; see story, page 13.
(Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
The Telluride Farmer’s Market celebrates its tenth summer beginning this Friday.
June 16 Event to Repair Popular Hiking Trail
CONDUCTOR is pulled through overhead line structures as work continues
for the third and final year of construction on the Nucla-Sunshine
project. (Courtesy photo)
The new line aimed in part at improving the reliability of Telluride's power supply, will be energized in October.
THE GOOSE 4 MOTOR CREW – (From left) Steve Felde, Bob Meyer, John Weiss and Karl
Schaeffer. Goose 4, now fully restored and functioning, will join its siblings at a Goose
Fest at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden before returning to Telluride this fall.
(Photo courtesy Ridgway Railroad Museum)
The hybrid automobile/trains were the ‘UPS of their time.’
Ouray teacher touts “travel running” as a way to promote international engagement
Jazz aficionados will get ‘the best beer around.’
Warm Spring Means Some Summer Crops for Opening This Friday
San Miguel Power Association members in districts one and four must submit their ballots for director representative by June 13. The Annual Meeting takes place in Nucla June 14.
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Action Plan Includes Surveillance Cameras, Signage and Fencing
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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)
