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OPENING DAY – Josh Sands splashed through Prospect Creek Wednesday, taking advantage of the U.S. Forest Service’s official opening of Prospect Trail in Mountain Village. The trail is one of three being used for this weekend’s Mountain States Cup Full Tilt mountain bike races (see related story, page 21). (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Whether you’re a downhiller or a converted ‘two-niner,’ there’s a bike, and a trail, for you.
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Injuries, a tired bullpen and a struggling offense are keeping the Rox stuck in mediocrity.
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Montrose Summer Open Swim Meet Friday, July 15
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Mt. Sneffels Marathon adds new category
GOLFERS FINISHED UP a round of play on the 18th hole of the Telluride Golf Course Wednesday evening, during youth benchmark program practice. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Telluride’s Benchmark Program will teach 50 kids the sport of golf this summer, along with a few other life skills.
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The Bowl Championship Series is a real mess, a waste of time, and the implosion of its national championship system is underway.
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NORWOOD – Norwood’s Wright Stuff Community Foundation presents its Third Annual Wright Stuff Challenge, a 5k/10k race for walkers and runners, on Saturday, June 25, on the county roads south of tow...
Scott Mercier (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Telluride-bred pro-cyclist Scott Mercier made his decision about performance enhancing drugs more than a decade ago.
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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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The Telluride-Norwood Girls track team took third at state, the boys fifth, proving they’re among the best athletes Colorado.
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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Alpine Bank National Junior College World Series this Memorial Day Weekend, in Grand Junction.
CLASIC FORM – Ouray senior Geordyn MacDougall (center, between unidentified runners from Soroco and Dove Creek) led the pack in the finished third in Grand Junction in
100 m hurdles last weekend in Grand Junction. MacDougall qualified for the state championships in a school record 17 seconds flat. (Photo by
David Emory)
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The combined Ouray-Ridgway-Silverton-Lake City high school track and field team qualified a dozen athletes to the state championships next week in Lakewood.
DYNAMITE – The Telluride/Norwood track team. (Courtesy photo)
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Telluride/Norwood high schools are headed to the state track and field meet with a menacing reputation.
GET SET, GO! – Runners in the Black Canyon Ascent charged up state Highway 347, climbing more than 2,000 feet before they reached the canyon’s campground. Race Director Scott Shine said a record number of runners and walkers took part in the race that benefited the Montrose Community Foundation. (Photo courtesy of San Juan Runners Club)
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Black Canyon Ascent course records still stand
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The Ouray County Soccer Assn. offers a season wrap-up.
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What once was a sure thing, Tiger Woods’ quest to beat Jack Nicklaus’ major wins record is now seriously in question after last weeks withdrawal from the Players Championship.
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The previously undefeated THS girls soccer team loses in the first round of the state tournament.
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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...
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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)