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![IAN!’ – The Telluride Miners again made history Saturday, when Ian Mac-
Cracken became the team’s second player awarded a full-on four year college scholarship. (Photo by <a href="http://tellurideimage.com/"><b>Brett Schreckengost</b></a>](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/165/assets/bball_boys_1.JPG "IAN!’ – The Telluride Miners again made history Saturday, when Ian Mac-
Cracken became the team’s second player awarded a full-on four year college scholarship. (Photo by <a href="http://tellurideimage.com/"><b>Brett Schreckengost</b></a>")
IAN!’ – The Telluride Miners again made history Saturday, when Ian Mac-
Cracken became the team’s second player awarded a full-on four year college scholarship. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost
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The Telluride boys are on a roll with nine wins in a row, while the girls posted an overtime win against Nucla. Two homecoming games are scheduled for this weekend.
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The Rocky Mountain Competitive Series opened in Steamboat, with TSSC skiers holding their own.
JUMP SHOT – Ouray High School senior Clay Schafer took a long-range shot in Tuesday evening’s 70-41 home loss to the Telluride Miners. (Photo courtesy Sara Wilbur)
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An anticipated rematch resulted in a disappointing loss for the Ouray boys’ basketball team – only their second of the season.
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The high school boys’ basketball team posted back-to-back wins over Ridgway and Mancos, and now looks to tough competition ahead.
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The Tellruide High School girls’ basketball team posted their first win of the season in a tight game against Ridgway.
DOWNHILL RACER – Jack Plantz carved around a gate. (Photos by Melissa Plantz)
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Telluride’s J5 and J4 Alpine racers start the new year strong with top-ten podium finishes in Crested Butte.
CROSS-COUNTRY FUN – Shauna Tewksbury on the Ironton Nordic Ski Trail after an abundant snow. (Photo by Rich Durnan)
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The Ouray Nordic Council will continue to groom trails at Ironton Park, and along the river as time allows.
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Shocking perhaps, but Pat Bowlen made a smart decision in firing Broncos Coach Mike Shanahan
Ridgway/Ouray Soccer (File photo)
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A look at what made OCW sports headlines in 2008.
WRESTLERS ROCK – It was a clean sweep for the Norwood and Nucla high school wrestling teams at the 73rd Colorado High School Association’s State Tournament Feb. 21-23, with Norwood High School juniors Stryker Lane and Hugh Hardman and Nucla junior Ty Sickels each winning the title in their respective
weight class.‘It felt good to go out there and dominate, and it’s great to be a state champion again,’ said Lane. (File photo)
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In 2008, THS basketball flies high on talents of full-ride scholarship-winner Mike Matthews and Coach of the Year Mike Hughes; U-19 hockey girls win state while cheerleading squad falls one hand-gr...
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Lady Miners fall to the Bears Saturday in Dolores
Joe Discoe
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Joe Discoe will join brother Jimmy on U.S. Freestyle Ski Team’s C Team this season following his second place finish at a U.S. Selections event in Winter Park.
LADY LIZARD HEADS – Madison Ward scored the first goal in Saturday’s game against Gunnison. Photo by Brett Schreckengost
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Telluride’s defending girls hockey champs floated through three shutout games at the Hanley Rink over the weekend.
![WAITING GAME – Justus Tudor and Megan Reich watched as Lauren Dwight practiced her routine Wednesday night on the balance beam, in the Telluride High School gym.(Photo by <a href="http://tellurideimage.com/"><b>Brett Schreckengost</b></a>)](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/165/assets/gymnastic_balance.JPG "WAITING GAME – Justus Tudor and Megan Reich watched as Lauren Dwight practiced her routine Wednesday night on the balance beam, in the Telluride High School gym.(Photo by <a href="http://tellurideimage.com/"><b>Brett Schreckengost</b></a>)")
WAITING GAME – Justus Tudor and Megan Reich watched as Lauren Dwight practiced her routine Wednesday night on the balance beam, in the Telluride High School gym.(Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Gymnastics program takes flight at Telluride Academy
LOOSE BALL – Ouray’s Kenneth Wilson chased a loose ball in last week’s 63-48 win over Ridgway. (Photo by Cecily Bryson)
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2008/09 high school basketball season is underway.
TOUGH EVENING – Josh Zieve moved the puck up the ice during one of Saturday night’s games against the Gunnison Blade at Hanley Rink. Telluride lost back-to-back games 10-0 and 14-1. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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After two days of hard hitting hockey action in the Hanley on Saturday, the Telluride Midgets were left with two losses.
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The park will open Dec. 20 for the season; membership for the season is only $40.
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Bridal Veil Falls opens officially to climbers, but only expert climbers are welcome – and here’s the checklist!
(Photo courtesy of Jerry Roberts)
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The CAIC holds its annual fundraiser in Ouray on Dec. 4.
photos
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)