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Nutritionally Oriented Chiropractor Dr. Jason Bojar answers questions about the metabolic dangers of sugar and high fructose corn sweetener, and offers suggestions for minimizing them in your famil...

A crane prepares to lift Business Car C from its trailer at the Ridgway Railroad Museum. (Photo courtesy of Jim Pettengill)
Repairs are completed after a water line break last winter.
Different forms of intelligence and the sensitive child: Two-part lecture comes to Telluride.

MOTEL FIRE – The owners of the Affordable Inn in Montrose say they were lucky that no one was hurt in a Saturday afternoon fire that destroyed a storeroom and caused guest evacuations. (Photo courtesy of John Holland)
No cause has yet been identified for a fire at a Montrose motel.
The group placing sculpture in public spaces in Ridgway has named Lucy Boody and Caroline Lescroart as co-chairs for 2011.
Simo, Whitsell and Eccher share 2011 honors.
CHAIN STORE – Applications to build Family Dollar stores in Norwood and Ridgway are pending in both communities. (Courtesy photo)
In tough economic times, discount retailers like Family Dollar Stores are doing exceptionally well and continue to expand.
Montrose chamber to give out free shopping cards.
The Durango Discovery Museum is offering a science camp on the human body for middle school students in Ouray County, June 20-24.
The Ouray Board of County Commissioners last week heard about vandalism to historic buildings at the Camp Bird Mine, about an abandoned trailer on Dallas Divide, and about a sharp rise in food sta...
Officials fear longtime school secretary stole thousands.
Huge surge in local suicides means more awareness needed.
With threats of disease, insect infestation, and wildfire lurking, Mountain Village amends its LUO to require new development to create defensible space and encourages existing structures to create...
Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership and the Mountain Studies Institute Watershed start discussion series on mining and its implications for local and nearby watersheds.
May is Colorado Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month, and the Anasazi Heritage Center celebrates with free admission, lectures, tours.
Telluride's Gus Kenworthy is Whistler's Overall Champion in season's four-day finale. “It's kind of weird,” said the characteristically modest world champion, whose sport will be in the 2014 Winte...
Sensitivity of a horse can help people heal.
Approximately 20 renewable energy projects were submitted to SMPA by its April 22 deadline.
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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)
