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The WWII airplanes dip their wings to salute WWII veterans, and as Mollie Fast sings the national anthem a father snatches the hat off his kid’s head. And someone says: “That dog in that tutu is too much!”
The Telluride ski area has been through a lot of changes lately — growing up and out with the addition of Palmyra Peak and the Gold Hill Chutes, adding restaurants and even sprouting a new lift.
The next great extinction is one — the only one — humans will have played architect to. Every 20 minutes a species goes extinct. Plants, animals, spiders, whatever. Gone forever. It’s the sixth major extinction the planet’s seen and the only one humans have witnessed.
The winner of Best Decorated Kid, the city mouse, drives her pink car down main street. [Photo by Brianne Hovey]
Just as blue eyes and stubborn spirits are genetically inherited from parents, botanical genes code for flower color, seed shape, and stem size as well as the production of molecules important for fragrance, flavor, and natural chemicals.
Angela Goforth, Client Services Manager for the San Miguel Resource Center, received a state-wide award for Excellence in Direct Service for domestic violence victim services on July 24 at an awards banquet in Fort Collins.
The Telluride Foundation invites local and regional nonprofit and government organizations as well as interested members of the public to bring your lunch and join in a free cultural competency workshop and discussion on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the program room of the Wilkinson Public Library.
Philip Glass is deeply loved — and in more than a few cases, criticized — for his minimalist music, or what he calls “music with repetitive structures.” Friday at the Palm, he’ll talk about scoring movies, particularly 1985’s “Mishima.” Sunday at the Palm is a world premier of a new piece of music.
Montrose County made a move into the future — or the past, depending on perspective — when its planning commission unanimously approved a uranium mill in Paradox Valley Wednesday night.
From fruited plains to amber waves and shining seas, towns in America are cutting down on Fourth of July festivities this year — motivated by shrinking budgets, drying sponsorship monies and hard economic times.
The annals of today’s health care system have turned patients into Homeric wanderers, plagued to roam for years on end before washing home.
Treasured objects and artifacts held by the Telluride Historical Museum will be preserved for future generations with the additional help of the IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, a core set of conservation books and online resources donated by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). IMLS has now awarded almost 3,000 free sets of the IMLS Bookshelf, in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). It must mean summer has arrived if rip-roaring rockets, fizzy bubble solutions, and oozing guts are showing up in Telluride from the laboratories of top-notch scientists. Join Pinhead for another summer of fun at “Pinhead Punk Science” events held every Tuesday in the Mountain Village. Don’t miss Pinhead’s team of wacky scientists as they conduct fun, messy and educational science experiments, beginning July 7 and ending Aug. 11. “Pinhead Punk Science” reveals the science mysteries behind familiar concepts with sensational and interactive lessons. After an explosive start to the summer, Telluride Academy — the region’s outdoor adventure youth organization — heads into the next chapter of the season with some incredible teen programs as highlights of the schedule.
On Friday, the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program will begin an action-packed weekend of fundraising events coinciding with the Fourth of July celebrations.
On Friday, the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program will begin an action-packed weekend of fundraising events coinciding with the Fourth of July celebrations.
They penned their history in ski tracks over the peaks of Colorado and Italy and cemented their legacy throughout the American West in ski huts and ski areas.
Onlookers watched and traffic slowed on Pacific Avenue on Wednesday as a piano was hoisted into the sky and into a second-story residence by Chip Wilson of GW Concrete and his fabulous crane. [Photo by Merrick Chase]
Since its inception in 1995, the Telluride Adaptive Ski Program — the local non-profit that provides therapeutic recreation programs to people with disabilities — has blossomed into a busy organization, hosting more than 400 people a year on ski trips and rafting adventures. When it rains on Hastings Mesa, it trickles off a roof and into a barrel on Kris Holstrom’s organic farm. For the past 22 years, whenever it rained, the water filling her three 55-gallon barrels turned Holstrom into a criminal.
It’s hard to be defeated by something that’s dead. But it happens, and it’s a grizzled realization: that something without a pulse owns you.
She stood in the middle of main street on Tuesday morning, cocking her head and pondering her palette of colors.
In yesterday’s Mountain Village Town Council election, experience mattered.
The man who represents San Miguel County and the southwest corner of Colorado in the state senate is resigning his seat, the Planet learned yesterday.
In its short lifetime as a summer event, the Telluride Cajun Festival has bounced from venue to venue, tried on different formats and changed time slots.
It stalks the winter woods on big paws, its ears erupting with shocks of long hair. The lynx, seldom-seen, 35-pound felines in the frail state of reintroduction, have recently given Colorado biologists reason to smile.
Put ‘er this way: It’s not Detroit. The county Sheriff and the Chief in Mountain Village reported on the state of law enforcement in their jurisdictions, and the numbers of crimes reported remained low. July 4th, 2009 July 2nd, 2009 July 1st, 2009 June 30th, 2009 June 29th, 2009 June 27th, 2009 June 26th, 2009 June 24th, 2009 June 22nd, 2009
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