Shelley Donnellon, a second-grade teacher at Norwood Elementary, recently finished her first year as head coach of the middle school girls volleyball team. Donnellon grew up in Norwood, is the daughter of Joyce and Todd Snyder of the prominent Snyder Ranches, and played volleyball in both mi…
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The West End Economic Development Corporation (WEEDC) is hosting a public meeting Thursday to discuss Nucla’s new housing development proposal. Open to the public, the meeting is to share information and field questions from the community regarding the project at Grape Street and 7th Avenue.
At a special meeting on March 1, the Norwood School District’s board of education announced that it offered a contract for the position of superintendent. The board announced they selected Todd Bittner to fill the role.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission is currently tearing down the Nucla Station, the coal plant that has been in existence on the San Miguel River since the 1950s. The process is no doubt hard for some to witness, since many from Norwood and Nucla earned their livelihoods at the coal plant…
The pandemic has shifted the way people are thinking about food, and in the last few years, “growing your own” has been at the forefront of community conversations. The Telluride Foundation launched the Local Food Initiative, the FRESH Food Hub is sourcing local and the Norwood Community Gar…
Many have noticed the new public art installations at Norwood Public Schools. Mrs. Shannon Dean’s high school art class taught themselves mural painting this year under her guidance. The group, made up of mostly seniors, consisted of Leslie Camacho, Paige Franklin, Gabby Flores (a junior) an…
Last week, San Miguel County bifurcated the county in differentiating COVID-19 restrictions in the east and west ends. The East End (Telluride and Mountain Village) moved into “Level Orange Extreme,” while the West End (Norwood) remained in the current Level Orange, given the low caseload.
Kelly Arnold of Nucla is in new territory this basketball season. While he previously coached the high school boys and girls varsity teams, this year he’s coaching both at the same time. In a year like no other, and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Arnold said he has hope that both Mus…
Norwood wrestling coach Kyle Dinsmore said Saturday’s quad meet went “pretty well” with Dove Creek, Mancos and Ignacio wrestling in the Norwood High School gym. The coach added the Maverick team knew going in that Mancos would be tough.
The Norwood area continues to be affected by drought conditions, and some precipitation the next few weeks could provide some much needed snowpack. That snowpack, the lifeblood of Wright’s Mesa, is a necessity for municipal water, irrigation for agriculture and livestock, and farming and gar…
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