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same business, new faces – Father and son, Jerry and Calob
Ebright, new owners of Brown Bag Deli and bakery. (Photo by Brett
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The new owners of Brown Bag followed a dream in coming to Telluride, and now they are living that dream as owner-operators of one of Telluride’s local favorite deli.
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Most contentious aspect of the plan, a five-star hotel development site near the ski area’s Goronno Ranch, will not be part of the Town Council-adopted Plan. Telluride Apartments redevelopment cou...
Scott Tipton and Sal Pace
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Colorado State House Minority Leader Sal Pace has announced a bid to unseat Congressman Scott Tipton.
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Ridgway Area Trails group (RAT) is hosting a trail building class and fundraiser/party June 9-12 in Ridgway.
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Second Chance Pursues Special Use Permit for Angel Ridge Ranch ...San Juan Kids Cavity Prevention Program Receives Oral Health Innovation Award...
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The Telluride-Norwood Girls track team took third at state, the boys fifth, proving they’re among the best athletes Colorado.
WE DID IT! — Montrose High seniors celebrate at the end of commencement ceremonies on Saturday that saw 269 seniors graduate, with 41 of them receiving with the Excellence in Education Award, which requires a 3.75 grade point average. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Hall, Montrose High)
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Fifteen percent of Montrose High graduating class had ‘A’ averages.
ROUND THE BEND – After a long absence, and now for the second year in a row, bush track horse racing has returned to the Montrose Fairgrounds. The races, sponsored by the Black Canyon Horse Racing Association, will be held June 18-19. (Photo courtesy of James McElman)
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Volunteers and county staff work to keep Fairgrounds race track in shape.
THE SILVER MEDAL triple jump at the state meet last weekend went to Ouray’s Kaleb Sackman, who leaped to a new school record of 43’ 8.5”. Ouray tracksters scored three other podium finishes at state. (Courtesy photo)
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Ouray track brought home four podium finishes (and two school records) from the state track meet last weekend.
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Tim DeChristopher spoke with The Watch about the climate justice movement, and the likelihood of going to prison, prior to his attendance at Mountainfilm this weekend.
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... Grand Junction church rescinds Ward Churchill invitation to speak on Memorial Day ...
HORSE ON A MISSION – Don Del Monte and his horse Rico have been on the road for more than a year, crossing the country to raise awareness for the prevention of suicide and child abuse. But Del Monte and Rico can’t hit the road because of the equine virus quarantine, and are stuck for the moment at the Montrose County Fairgrounds. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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Riding his horse Rico across the country to promote suicide prevention, Don Del Monte will hold a ‘meet and greet’ at Riverbottom Park this Sunday
DRS. NANCY KERR AND MARK HAUSWALD travel to Nepal in August with their life-saving postpartum device, courtesy of a Gates Foundation grant. (Courtesy photo)
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Gates Foundation grants $100,000 to Nancy Kerr and Mark Hauswald to research their invention, a simple yet innovative device that could influence women’s health in developing countries.
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Andy Mueller of the Colorado River Water Conservation District briefed the Ouray BOCC Tuesday (May 24) on a tentative breakthrough in Colorado’s decades-long water wars.
A PERFECT SOLDIER – Aki Ra (left), who has dedicated years toward recovering live land mines in Cambodia, and helping those impacted by them. (© Richard Fitoussi/Witness Photographic)
TELLURIDE MOUNTAINFILM 2011
A Perfect Soldier, the Story of Childhood Soldier and Now Activist Aki Ra
A Perfect Soldier, the Story of Childhood Soldier and Now Activist Aki Ra
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The extraordinary new film A Perfect Soldier has its roots in two chance encounters, one in Cambodia, the second at Telluride Mountainfilm.
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Equine herpesvirus has been detected in Colorado horses that attended a cutting horse show in Utah. Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel county fairgrounds are closed to all horses; horse show dates are ...
LOW WATER PLANTS – One way to save water is to plant native species, says Heather Gilliam of San Juan Nursery, such as ephedra on the left, globe caragana on the right, and various kinds of sage, in the background. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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Up to half of household water goes to yards and gardens.
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SCENTLESS CHAMOMILE
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Successful control of noxious weeds requires proper identification, timing and technique.
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Telluride officials say that plans for a new municipal water supply could be delayed, but probably not stopped.
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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)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)