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Lindsey Jacobellis (USA) clinched victory Friday afternoon in the first snowboard cross race of the 2012 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup on Lower Misty Maiden. Jacobellis successfully competed in the women's final against last year's winner Dominique Maltais (CAN) and Deborah Anthonioz (FRA) and thus locked in the first ever victory of an US athlete in Telluride. Photo by Brett Schreckengost
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Win Marks First American Gold in Three-Year-Old Event; Baumgartner/Cheever a Close Second in SBX Team Final
AND THEY'RE OFF! – A group of forerunners on the World Cup SBX course Wednesday morning included Telluride local Harry Kearney (winner of last year’s Mt. Baker Slalom). Harry’s
brother Hagen Kearney (above) earned a “coach’s discretion” spot in Friday’s finals. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Kearney and his younger brother Harry were among the six young snowboarders invited to last week’s camp, and according to U.S. Snowboard Team coach Peter Foley, both Kearney boys showed their prowe...
LG FIS Snowboard World Cup Athletes Seth Westcott, Nick Baumgartner, Lindsey Jacobellis, Jonathan Cheever, Nate Holland, Pat Holland,
and Graham Watanabe rode with Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club members and their coach this week. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Local snowboarders ripped it up with World Cup champions last Thursday in Telluride.
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Montrose wrestlers managed to win despite losing points from empty weight classes.
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The Montrose High School boys’ basketball team defeated some tough competition at the D’Evelyn tournament.
FROM THE PAINT – Derek Green (15) of Ouray shot over Norwood's Jeff Williams during their game at the Mountain Shootout. The Trojan's Kyle Kinsel (4) and Justin Clark (23) looked for rebound position. The Trojans fell to the Mavericks 88-44. (Photo by Kathryn Westcott)
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The high school basketball season got underway last weekend with the Nucla Mountain Shootout.
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<b>CO-CLIMBERS AND AUTHORS</b> Diane and Charlie Winger will be at Hastings Book Store in Montrose from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday to sign copies of their latest book, <i>Because It’s There – A Photographic Journey</i>, along with copies of previous guidebooks the two have written. (Courtesy photo)
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A mountain-climbing Montrose couple has published a new photo book.
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<b>RUSHING ATTACK</b> – Late in last weekend’s game versus Hoehne, Norwood’s Roger Liljegren (60) moved the ball up field with the help of a block by Blayde Harrigan (44). The Mavericks lost the game 40-24, suffering only their second loss of the season. (Photo courtesy of Kathryn Westcott)
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The Mavericks finished the season with a sterling 10-2 record, with both losses coming at the hands of the Hoehne Farmers.
ALL FOR ONE – Telluride’s high school volleyball team capped a successful season with a consolation win at the State Tournament last week. (Courtesy photo)
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Telluride and Norwood both sent volleyball teams to State this year, giving both programs bragging rights as one of the Elite Eight teams in their division.
PRE-SEASON MOUNTAIN PREP – Telluride Ski Resort snowmaker Jake Vavricka ran a final gun check on a snowmaker on lower Misty Maiden ski run Wednesday morning. The ski resort opens Nov. 23
with First Tracks Wednesday, a fundraiser for the Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club. Tickets are $25 and all proceeds benefit TSSC. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
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Until Wednesday, Nov. 23, when the Telluride Ski Resort hosts its traditional “First Tracks Wednesday,” the traditional day-before-Thanksgiving fundraiser for the Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club w...
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This story isn’t about football, coaching traditions or fight songs. It’s about everything that’s wrong and sick in our society and our inability to stop it when we see it.
SPIKE! – Montrose High School middle blocker Hunter Schaeffer attacked as Emily Wolverton watched during the district competition. The Indians came from behind and qualified for the regional tournament. (Photo by Trevor Alvord)
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Underdog Montrose girl’s volleyball team plays comeback style in district tournament.
STATE BOUND – The Telluride Lady Miners Class 2A volleyball team finished second at Regionals behind Mancos last weekend. They head to the
State tournament in Denver today. Pictured: (Left to right) In back, Emily Langley, Erin Kean, Mallory Bosse, Coach Fawnda Rogers, Carson Brumley,
Genevieve Matamoros, Scout Franklin; middle, Ryan Niebruegge, Mikaela Balkind, Emy Ludwig; front, Sarah Wontrobski. (Courtesy photo)
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Telluride’s high school volleyball team earned a trip to the state tournament with two wins last weekend at regionals.
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Big powder, big air and big tricks in the Telluride ski film, Loyalty .
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The Telluride born-and-bred athlete was the overall tour champion last season.
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Despite an upset at last weekend’s District volleyball tournament, Telluride is setting its sights high for the coming Regional tourney in Palisade.
IN FOR THE SAVE — Montrose High School’s soccer team, ranked fifth, lost in district playoffs but still played a great game. Sophomore
Saul Perez went in for the ball during the match against Sand Creek, ranked 26th. (Photo by Trevor Alvord)
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Montrose soccer team’s first loss ends the season.
Taylor Schoenebaum
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Taylor Schoenebaum, Ouray’s lone cross-country runner at the State meet, met her goal and bettered her best time.
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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)