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LEND AN EAR — The sweet corn will be free again this year at the Olathe Sweet Corn Festival, and for its 20th anniversary the town-sponsored festival has been extended to two days, Aug. 5-6, with vintage rockers The Guess Who on Friday night and country singer/songwriter Aaron Tippin on Saturday night. (Photo courtesy of the Olathe Sweet Corn Festival)
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The Guess Who, Aaron Tippin to headline Olathe Sweet Corn Festival.
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Ouray County “envisions” its economic future for the governor’s Bottom-Up Economic Development Plan.
NORWOOD MAVERICK Shelby Brier (24) drove around Simla’s Jessica George in the state 1A semi-final game last weekend at the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley. Norwood lost to eventual champion Simla 36-28. (Photo by Kathryn Wescott)
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Two area teams made it to the state basketball championships this year, Ouray’s boys and Norwood’s girls.
GONE FISHING – John Colcolough hooked a rainbow trout on the lower San Miguel River near Placerville, as guide John Warren looked on. This section is one of three along the San Miguel River now in the process of obtaining Congressional Wild and Scenic designation. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Recommendations that 13 of 21 local river segments found eligible for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System also be deemed suitable for the designation is seen as a good balance b...
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The proposed plan will go to the Montrose City Planning Commission on March 23, and then go before the Montrose City Council sometime in April.
MONTROSE INVITATIONAL TRACK MEET – Ouray’s Geordyn MacDougall (left) and Telluride’s Emy Ludwig competed in the 100m low hurdles in April 2010, in Montrose. (File photo)
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A new combined Telluride and Norwood track and field recipe is bound to cook up some dynamite.
LONG WAY UP – Ouray Mountain Rescue captain Mike MacLeod rode the litter with a “broken up” climbing victim from the bottom of the Uncompahgre Gorge to the Upper Bridge last Friday afternoon. (Photo by Mike Bryson)
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A Canadian climber was seriously injured in a lead fall at the Ouray Ice Park last weekend.
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Amidst criticism about upzoning active open space in Mountain Village for hotel development, support runs strong for the Town Hall subarea proposal.
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Brian Scranton and his company, GrahamSpencer have scored an on-line hit with a video about Rockford, Ill., the place Wisconsin state senators escaped to.
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'Out of the West' features new works by artists Dan Deuter, Barbara Churchley and Gina Grundemann.
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Three Bluegrass Favorites (Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show) team up for unique railroad tour of American Southwest…
DRAW A STRAIGHT LINE? – Art teacher Ann Marie Fleming helps freshman Oscar Lopez with an art project at Montrose High. The annual Montrose School District Art Show will display 500 pieces of student art from all grades and schools at Region 10’s Enterprise Center, 300 N. Cascade Ave., from April 19-29. (Photo by Beverly Corbell)
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Kids who study art stay in school, raise CSAP scores.
DUCKING THE ROPE – File photo of a skier ducking the ski area boundary rope at the top of lift 9. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Despite more skiers than ever in out-of-bounds Bear Creek, rescue efforts are slowed by a liability-wary bureaucracy.
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In the coming years potash could join uranium in the West End mineral extraction industry.
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Montrose hopes cutting building fees will help local building.
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'StormReady arms communities with improved communication and safety skills needed to save lives and property – before and during the event.'
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Sixty days after releasing its preliminary license approval, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment granted a final radioactive materials license to a company looking to build a ...
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Census results are in and the largest population growth has occurred in Mountain Village, Montrose and Ridgway.
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A few months after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found the Gunnison Sage-grouse “warranted but precluded” from Endangered Species Act protection, the agency authorized a local field office to ...
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DISCUS THROWER Lance Brooks competed in the 2012 London Olympics. (Photo by Steve DeAutremont)
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS – Ridgway High School students (left to right) Jack Middleton, Abel Lannan and Tashi Hackett presented the results of their research on possible sister cities to Ridgway Town Council last week. Mountain towns in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Dominican Republic made the cut. Next step: contact. (Photo by Peter Shelton)
MAIN STREET GELATO – A+Y Design Gallery owners Adam and Yesenia Duncan offered up gelato samples from behind their Italian-imported gelato case Monday morning. Along with unique furniture and fine art, the two offer 22 flavors of locally-made gelato. (Photo by Gus Jarvis)
BUILDING OPTIMISM – Tom How (left) and Daniel Key of Sjoden Wood Designs worked on a new home in the Cobble Creek Golf Community Tuesday morning. The spec home is being built under the direction of contractor Bert Welz, who said he’s optimistic for the region’s construction trade. (Photo by William Woody)
GROWTH INVESTMENT – Students took advantage of a "living classroom" at the Telluride School's new Grow Dome this spring. The Dome, which will be open to the public for tours Wednesday, May 22, was funded in part by a Telluride Medical Center's Physical Education Program (PEP) grant. (Courtesy photos)
HEADED TO PLAYOFFS - Montrose High Shoo0l's Jake Kastendieck fielded a ground ball last Saturday during the team’s 10-0 victory over Woodland Park. The Indians advance to the state 4A quarterfinals this Friday at Cherokee Trail High School against Valor Christian. (Photo by William Woody)
PINHEADS, PIXELLATED – The Pinhead Institute holds its annual fundraiser, entitled Minecraft Mania,at the Sheridan Opera House this Sunday, May 19. (Courtesy photo)
TELLURIDE IN 1910 – A hypothetical model of the main street facades, made up of buildings throughout the region, the television producers are proposing to build for the production of "When Calls the Heart." (Courtesy image)