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December 20 to 27, 2012    Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Saturn  Evening: Jupiter, Mars Well, here we are. The end of the world. Apocalypse, End Times, Armageddon, the Rapture…    I’m writing these words on Thursday, Dec. 20th and by the time you read them, the exact...

Editor’s note: Almost all of us have been following the aftermath of the massacre in a Connecticut school. Newtown is our town. Their kids, our kids. The following is a response from our favorite Wordwoman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, whose poetry, including her latest book, #13,...

Did you draw the hand to buy for a family member in this year's Secret Santa and now you are looking for a unique gift that will truly inspire? Let the Ah Haa School for the Arts help you with your gift list. Completed your...

The Telluride Foundation and other local nonprofit organizations united for a three- day online giving campaign, Telluride Gives, to benefit local charities. Donors were able to search for the nonprofit of their choice and make an unexpected, end-of-year gift. The online giving campaign, which engaged...

[caption id="attachment_25919" align="alignleft" width="150"] Scott, Zudnick, k26[/caption] Trawling the Internet for words about winners, these from a guy named Damon Hill popped up. "Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog." Especially if that dog is Zudnick. Only...

Editor’s note: In his doctoral dissertation, Pastor Pat Bailey of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church is claiming the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission, the need for a more natural, integrative theology and for an earth-focused, contextual approach...

December 13 to 20, 2012     Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Saturn   Evening: Mars, Jupiter  When I think about the odds of my birth – or the birth of anything or anyone – I know they are just about as good as winning last month’s...

A show of new works by painter Susan Sales opens at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art on Thursday, December 20 and runs through Sunday, January 20, 2013. The artist's opening reception is 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. For the most part, "new" rhymes with "recent." Though...

[caption id="attachment_25797" align="alignright" width="300"] Verano by river with Squash Blossoms, by his wife Nancy Branyas[/caption] How does gnocchi with braised short ribs sauce sound? Does a roasted chicken limone appeal? Want to know how to make a bona fide Caesar salad? Ask a lawyer. Not just any lawyer. Ask...

Editor’s note:  Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And it just earned its fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...