December 2014

 The Telluride Mountain Club (TMtC)'s Trail Committee celebrates its third year serving the Telluride area's trail access and creation with a push to educate the community on its current initiatives and projects. Throughout 2014, the Committee has increased collaborative efforts with trail and land-related entities including the United...

Written by Sasha Sullivan in collaboration with the cast. Original music by Ethan Hale. Featuring: Sam Burgess, Cat Lee Covert, Gin Eborn, Sarah Gluckstern, Mitch Mishky, Jacqui Power, Pamela Roth Sante, Colin Sullivan & Colleen Thompson. December 17 -21, 2014, Wednesday – Saturday at 7 p.m.; Sunday matinee, 4...

We simply could not overlook the coincidence. Timing is everything: this week’s Second Chance column is all about “Pet Parenting for More Meaningful Living” and talks about the profound, often life-changing, life-enhancing bond between humans and their pets. Between soldiers and strays formed during war? That’s the...

Pets make us more human. That is the simple reason why we include them in our lives. It is not a practical or a tangible reason and in fact  it defies logic. When you think about the commitment, the responsibility, the financial costs, etc. of...

 Oleh Lysiak talked with old-time Telluride local Johnnie Stevens for a story originally published February 21, 1996 in The San Miguel Post. The interview is an eye-opener: there was a Telluride before there was a ski resort and pre-1972, there was a community of mixed ages, professions, religions, everyone...

Telluride Foundation hosts 4th annual Telluride Gives Day. $15,000 in match money possible   On December 13, 2014 or 12.13.14, the Telluride Foundation and local nonprofit organizations want to prove that giving is local. Telluride Give’s goal: every full-time, part-time resident or visitor of the region will log-on...

BOOKSnBEERS is a collaboration between Between the Covers Bookstore with Smuggler's Brewpub  that takes place at Between the Covers on Sunday, December 14, 6 p.m. The event features a tasting of their brand new Chanterelle Ale, a locally sourced mushroom brew, plus a visit from Denver-based author Mark...

It used to be Susan and Steven. Now, well, pop culture dictates. According to an article in the Huff Post by Caroline Bologna, programs such as "Orange is the New Black," "House of Cards,” and “Frozen” are influencing the name game.     As the end of 2014...

The very thought of it make some people shiver in anticipation; others shiver with angst and cold. Whichever your camp, in America you still own it: whatever its origins – pagan, connected with the winter solstice or Christian, based on the birth stories about Christ...

T’is the season and Mountain Village is joining in the celebration. For this year’s Holiday Prelude the weekend of December 12-14, 2014, “uptown” is being transformed into the North Pole. Holiday Prelude, previously known as Winter Fest, is a collaborative effort between TMVOA, Town of...