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HOP, STEP, JUMP – Ouray’s Patrick Link soared in the triple jump at the Cedaredge meet recently. The Trojans come “home” to Montrose for a big meet Friday, April 29. (Photo by David Emory)
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Trojan track and field athletes continued to improve at Cowboy Invitational in Gunnison.
RACE TO THE TOP – Dozens of runners and walkers joined in the Black Canyon Ascent last year, a race from the bottom of Black Canyon that will again benefit the Montrose Community Foundation when it is held on May 14. (Courtesy photo)
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Running event at Black Canyon will help local nonprofits.
COONEYS AT COPPER - Four golds for Molly Cooney and a silver for Beecher Cooney at the high-level season-ending USASA event. (Courtesy photos)
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At the 2011 National Championships in Copper Mountain last week, snowboarder Molly Cooney won four of five events, leading the well-decorated Telluride pack.
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The combined Ouray/Ridgway track and field team competed at the Bulldog Invitational in Hotchkiss last weekend.
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Gus Kenworthy floats to second at Dumont Cup.
Two-time National Champion Joe Discoe
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Discoe repeats U.S. Nationals win with duals victory.
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Local freeride star places high in qualification round for X Games slopestyle event in Tignes, France, but falls short in finals.
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Chasing end of season medals.
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.
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The Telluride Mountain School senior becomes the second-ever 17-year-old to take top honors in the Pro division at the 26th Annual Legendary Mt. Baker Banked Slalom.
ON HOME ICE – Ryan Hanley of Telluride (above, left) and Jennifer Coombe of Aspen raced for the puck during Sunday's game at Hanley Rink, which ended in a 2-2 tie. (Photo by Dale Kondracki)
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Less than a week after carbon monoxide sickened its players at a tournament in Gunnison, Telluride’s U-19 girls hockey team returned to competition with composure.
JIM DREW MEMORIAL SKI RACE – Winter Park’s Megan Horner lay down a solid Giant Slalom run in a
snowstorm on the Milk Run course Saturday afternoon; she finished third overall in the event. (Photo by
Brett Schreckengost)
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The Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club hosted Junior Olympics qualifying races on Milk Run last weekend.
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The International Olympic Committee is considering including slopestyle in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. With a top-ten finish at Thursday’s World Championships, Kenworthy could be poised to ...
Joe Discoe
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A strong U.S. men’s team makes their mark at the 2011 World Championship mogul competition in Deer Valley; local skier Joe Discoe among the top finishers. And in slopestyle, Telluride’s own Gus Ken...
RISING STAR – 2009 Ridgway High School graduate Lauren Hagemeyer soared for the kill in a 2010 match for BYU-Hawaii. A 6’-1” right-side hitter, Hagemeyer helped the Seasiders to a PacWest Division title.
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Lauren Hagemeyer moved on from volleyball stardom at Ridgway High School to college at BYU-Hawaii.
MUSH! – Rocky Mountain Sled Dog Club President Lynn Whipple and her four-dog team turned a corner while racing in Leadville, Colo. last March. Dogsled racing comes to the Grand Mesa on Jan. 29 and 30. (Photo courtesy Lucy Bettis)
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The fifth annual Rocky Mountain Dogsled Races will be an exciting way to explore the Grand Mesa and the sport.
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Telluride alpine racers dominate at age class race in Crested Butte
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Ice Festival gets its axe in gear.
MOGULS MOGUL - Telluride's Zak Watkins (center) took the Dual Moguls prize at the U.S. Ski Team Selection event in Steamboat Springs. Second place went to Brian Zemba of Killington, Vt. (left); third was Bradley Wilson of Salt Lake City, Ut. (Photo by Caleb Martin)
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Although U.S. Ski Team spots eluded them, TSSC mogulists rose to the occasion at high-level Selections event
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Telluride and Norwood enjoyed a year in the sports spotlight in 2010, thanks to luminary athletes and record-smashing high school teams.
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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)