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KENEEN MCNIVEN (right) teaches Anusara yoga classes in Telluride, Ridgway and Montrose. (Courtesy photo)
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Retired chiropractor Keneen McNiven, owner of San Juan Om Yoga, teaches Anusara-style yoga in Montrose, Telluride and Ridgway.
BENEFIT DANCE BAND — The Ghost River Band will donate its talents to a big benefit dance for the American Cancer Society from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. on April 30 at the Montrose Fairgrounds' Friendship Hall. The public is invited to the dance and kids' carnival as well as karaoke contests and a chance on a helicopter ride over Black Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Relay for Life Team City Market)
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It’s a family night and everyone’s invited.
WHAT ABOUT MAMA? – About 30 people joined in a town hall-style discussion with the board of the Montrose Area Merchants Association on Monday. The 1,700 member group is trying to decide whether to dissolve or regroup now that city funding has dried up. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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City attorney says MAMA still owes the city $60K.
SEASON’S HARVEST PROPRIETOR Melissa Johnson has cut out everything “extracurricular” to keep the store open. (Photo by Cecily Bryson)
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Sign of the times: With community backing, Ridgway’s Season’s Harvest Natural Foods is one step closer to becoming a cooperative.
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A campaign is underway to pull the spotted knapweed in Ridgway before the town must spray herbicide. The more the community pulls, the less spraying needed.
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While the town’s budget is not out of the woods yet, increased sales tax and RETA numbers signify that the worst may be over.
OURAY COUNTY BRIEFS
County Asks to Be Heard in State, Federal Approval Processes for Drilling Project
County Asks to Be Heard in State, Federal Approval Processes for Drilling Project
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County wants to be heard in drilling project proposal…Number of Foreclosures drops from 2009…E-Waste recycling event is coming to Ridgway on May 15…BOCC tries to address dogs at the workplace.
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New prescriptive building code strives to increase energy efficiency with relatively short payback periods…Council appoints representative to 3/50 Project Committee.
![ON THE MARKET — This house on Bear Lake Drive in Montrose may have a hard time selling if it's priced more than $200,000, according to recent trends. An in-depth report released recently by Comparable Sales Research show a 2.5 decrease in single family home sales for the first quarter of 2010 in Montrose County, much better than the 37.5 decrease in 2009. (Photo by <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/kondracki/dalephotography"><b>Dale Kondracki</b></a>)](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/165/assets/Housing.jpg "ON THE MARKET — This house on Bear Lake Drive in Montrose may have a hard time selling if it's priced more than $200,000, according to recent trends. An in-depth report released recently by Comparable Sales Research show a 2.5 decrease in single family home sales for the first quarter of 2010 in Montrose County, much better than the 37.5 decrease in 2009. (Photo by <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/kondracki/dalephotography"><b>Dale Kondracki</b></a>)")
ON THE MARKET — This house on Bear Lake Drive in Montrose may have a hard time selling if it's priced more than $200,000, according to recent trends. An in-depth report released recently by Comparable Sales Research show a 2.5 decrease in single family home sales for the first quarter of 2010 in Montrose County, much better than the 37.5 decrease in 2009. (Photo by Dale Kondracki)
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In the Montrose housing market, good quarter results are a plus, but, according to one broker, “we still have a long row to hoe.”
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Subjects for Mountainfilm 2010 range from exploration to environmentalism to ecstasy (the drug)
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Building projects in the region are slowly picking up, but a true recovery might not happen for several months.
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Ridgway Town Manager Greg Clifton will cross the Dallas Divide to begin running the Town of Telluride effective June 2.
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Facing terminal cancer, an 80-year-old man takes his own life in Montrose.
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Ouray County hopes to get $20,000 in grant funding to assist its seniors…More wildlife ramps on U.S. Hwy. 550 will be built…Volunteers are needed for Ride the Rockies.
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‘This is a bottom-up, grassroots effort, and Ouray County democrats are fortunate to have many good participants.’
![MANSIONS IN THE SKY — An aerial photo shows the location of Casa Baranca I, a 4,750-square-foot luxury home built by real estate broker Tom Chapman on his 112 acres of private land located within the boundaries of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Chapman plans to build another home, the 25,000-square-foot Casa Barranca II, to be built on Signal Hill, the highest point in the park, and will be highly visible to park visitors. (Photo courtesy of Tom Chapman and <a href="http://www.blackcanyoncasa.com">www.blackcanyoncasa.com</a>.)](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/165/assets/mansion.jpg "MANSIONS IN THE SKY — An aerial photo shows the location of Casa Baranca I, a 4,750-square-foot luxury home built by real estate broker Tom Chapman on his 112 acres of private land located within the boundaries of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Chapman plans to build another home, the 25,000-square-foot Casa Barranca II, to be built on Signal Hill, the highest point in the park, and will be highly visible to park visitors. (Photo courtesy of Tom Chapman and <a href="http://www.blackcanyoncasa.com">www.blackcanyoncasa.com</a>.)")
MANSIONS IN THE SKY — An aerial photo shows the location of Casa Baranca I, a 4,750-square-foot luxury home built by real estate broker Tom Chapman on his 112 acres of private land located within the boundaries of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Chapman plans to build another home, the 25,000-square-foot Casa Barranca II, to be built on Signal Hill, the highest point in the park, and will be highly visible to park visitors. (Photo courtesy of Tom Chapman and www.blackcanyoncasa.com.)
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The Tom Chapman saga continues as he plans, unapologetically, to build a highly visible 25,000-square-foot mansion in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.
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Music from the Beatles to ballads will be performed by the Montrose Community Band on April 25.
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That smoke in the air may just be from a prescribed burn. Several are planned for the Norwood/Nucla area and the Uncompahgre Plateau, now through May.
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Norwood’s Mollie Lane, Lindsey Stindt and Ty Williams continue to dominate their events at track meets, including last weekend’s Frank Woodburn Invitational in Palisade.
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BIG NEWS – Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy (at right), who is a producer of “When Calls the Heart,” and two of the show’s stars, Daniel Lissing and Erin Krakow (left and center), were among those who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference at the State Capitol. (Photo by Greg Clifton)
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