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Another Fine Wright Stuff Block Party
Editor: Norwood’s Wright Stuff Community Foundation would like to thank the following organizations for helping us put on our third annual Community Block Party and Parking Lot Sale last Saturday ...
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Elks Hosts Successful Wounded Warriors Visit
Editor: August 12-15 the Telluride Elks Lodge was proud to host our first group of Wounded Warriors for a weekend of outdoor activity. We received funding for this project from the Elks Veterans S...
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Top Chef a Huge Success
Editor: Along with all of the board members of the One to One San Miguel Mentoring Program, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all of you who came together to make last week’s Top Chef C...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
‘Dismantle the Joint Tourism Organization’

The recent Mountain Village survey findings of second homeowner attitudes toward the environment, climate change and affordable housing signal, more clearly than ever before, it is way past time T...
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Mushroom Festival Thanks
Editor:
The Telluride Institute would like to thank the entire Telluride community for making this year’s Telluride Mushroom Festival “one of the best-ever,” as founder Dr. Emanuel
Salzman c...
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Hailstorm (Courtesy photo) ‘Frightening’ Hailstorm Topples Irreplaceable ‘Eagle Tree’
Editor: The beautiful ponderosa that leaned toward the east over the Uncompaghre River was felled by the wind during the intense hailstorm on Monday, Aug. 16, that hit a narrow swatch of land from...
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‘Small, Working-Class’ Ophir Should Be Exempt SMPA Surcharge
Editor: I recently read in your newspaper the statement from a San Miguel Power Association communications executive that the new 7.474 percent electric power line undergrounding surcharge was a “...
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County Clerk Candidate Thanks
by Kathleen Erie
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Editor: This is from Kathleen Erie, now officially the Democratic candidate for San Miguel County Clerk and Recorder. Today all I want to do is thank people.     Firstly, I do want to thank Rube ...
'Somewhere the Founding Fathers Are Weeping'
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Editor: Gus Jarvis wrote a series of Ridgway briefs (in The Watch , July 29). The one against issues 60, 61, and 101 contained several errors. Of course, we're all anxious to find out if a group ...
Please Don't Pick the Wildflowers
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Editor: Over the years, many of us who love our native plants have observed an increasing number of people walking trails with handfuls of wildflowers they have just picked. I hope you will publi...
‘Small, Working-Class’ Ophir Should Be Exemp From Power-Line Undergrounding Surcharge
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Editor: I recently read in your newspaper the statement from a San Miguel Power Association communications executive that the new 7.474 percent electric power line undergrounding surcharge was a “...
Climb to Conquer Cancer Thanks
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Editor: I would like to thank everyone who helped in the American Cancer Society’s Climb to Conquer Cancer event that took place on Aug.7. Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped with this e...
More Severe Mudslide Impacts If Ballot Initiatives Pass
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Editor: In talking with several citizens throughout the last two weeks, it seems the mud slides and delays on Norwood Hill are on everyone’s mind. Even though the rain is making everything green ...
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Jim Allen, a member of the Vice Lords speaks at a news conference, joined by several current and former gang members Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Chicago. The 32-year-old describes his gang as devoted to social support, and he says police can't hold the group responsible for the criminal acts of individuals. He calls the superintendent's so-called 'gang summit' initiative to crack down on crime 'a joke' that won't stem violence. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Calling the Chicago police chief's ultimatum to stop resorting to violence a waste of time, current and former members of some of the city's most notorious street gangs held an unlikely news conference on Thursday to send their own message to police: You're not playing fair.


Thu Sep 02 18:06:23 -0500 2010

God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking, seen here, has said in extracts published from a new book.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)Reuters - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.


Thu Sep 02 08:08:52 -0500 2010

Supporters of same-sex marriage hold signs and cheer after a stay was lifted that allows same-sex couples to marry in California in San Francisco, California. California Supreme court Judge Vaughn Walker lifted a stay on same-sex marriages in California just over one week after his ruling that Prop 8 was unconstitutional. Marriages will be allowed to resume on August 18.(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)AP - A California court has refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage ban.


Thu Sep 02 15:04:06 -0500 2010
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