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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.
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)
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)
The Ouray Nordic Council will continue to groom trails at Ironton Park, and along the river as time allows.
Shocking perhaps, but Pat Bowlen made a smart decision in firing Broncos Coach Mike Shanahan

Ridgway/Ouray Soccer (File photo)
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)
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...
Lady Miners fall to the Bears Saturday in Dolores

Joe Discoe
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
Telluride’s defending girls hockey champs floated through three shutout games at the Hanley Rink over the weekend.
LOOSE BALL – Ouray’s Kenneth Wilson chased a loose ball in last week’s 63-48 win over Ridgway. (Photo by Cecily Bryson)
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)
After two days of hard hitting hockey action in the Hanley on Saturday, the Telluride Midgets were left with two losses.
The park will open Dec. 20 for the season; membership for the season is only $40.
Bridal Veil Falls opens officially to climbers, but only expert climbers are welcome – and here’s the checklist!
(Photo courtesy of Jerry Roberts)
The CAIC holds its annual fundraiser in Ouray on Dec. 4.
Get ready for more soap opera stylings in the NFL as Favre makes a run at the Super Bowl. That’s right, the old man is gunning for the postseason.
THS CHEERLEADING SQUAD – (top, left to right) Whitney Rigsby, Juliette Brown, Katie Mallard, Jo Bush, Tenae Sandoval, Mackenzie Bronson, Allison Horn, Cale Cramer, Emily Horn, Shelby Blueher, Coach Katie Kennedy; (bottom, left to right) Jayleen Troutwin, Yayoi Tani, Amy Knight, Madison Ward, Natalie Brown, Chancee Forestier, Carla Stauder, Coach Liza Huet. Not Pictured: Coach Teresa Brachle. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
The THS cheer squad will perform its most difficult routine to date at Regionals on Saturday.

GRIPPED – Johnny Gregory, a junior at Ouray High School and captain of the 13-member Ouray/Ridgway Climbing team, made a move on the elementary school’s climbing wall at last Thursday’s practice. Open climbing at the wall is free and open to the public on Tuesdays from 6-8 p.m. (Photo courtesy Jason Nelson)
Ridgway/Ouray Climbing Team eyeing new summits this season.
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RATS’ NEST – A rack of demo bikes at last year’s Ridgway Area Trails (RAT) Festival in Hartwell Park. This year’s 3rd annual will again feature trail building and skills clinics, along with a new Friday beer-and-shorts film night at the Sherbino Theater. (Courtesy photo)
VOLUNTEER Linda Granzow worked twine through spent round casings at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
WARRIOR WIND CHIMES – Welcome Home Montrose staff Emily Smith painted ceramic part of wind chimes at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
BACK HOME IN TELLURIDE – members of Telluride’s Volunteer Fire Department helped move the Galloping Goose No. 4 back to its home next to the San Miguel County Courthouse on May 16. The railbus spent the last four years in Ridgway while it was refurbished. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)

ROBERT JUSTIS (Courtesy photo)
