Please join us for the next Executive Director Breakfast with Marc Nager, speaking about how to craft and tell a compelling story. Thursday, July 2, 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. at the Telluride Historical Museum. One of the most undervalued, yet valuable skills within an organization is the ability to craft and...
June 25 to July 2, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Mercury Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn If you haven’t noticed the celestial event happening in the western twilight sky for the entire month of June, perhaps it’s time to take a look. Our solar system’s two most brilliant and...
If the red rock canyons of the Telluride region remind you of a Martian landscape, come meet a man whose lifelong work as a rocket scientist is one of the reasons we’re so familiar with the crags and cracks of that dusty, red planet. [caption id="attachment_51794"...
Dear Pet Column, I have been watching a feral cat living in my neighborhood. He doesn’t seem to bother anyone, but I would rather he was being taken care of it. Can I trap the cat and bring it to the Second Chance shelter? Sincerely, Feral Friend [caption id="attachment_51724" align="aligncenter" width="600"]...
Mountain Munchkins Child Care & Preschool hosts the eighth annual Touch-A-Truck, a kid-centric fundraising event at which children can touch, climb, explore, and sit in the driver’s seat of a variety of vehicles: service vehicles, work equipment, fire trucks, and police cars. Open to the public and organized...
Say cheese! And if you are clued in, your next words would be “Max McCalman.” The man is a Really Big Cheese in the international world of Food & Beverages. [caption id="attachment_51599" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Max McCalman[/caption] In fact, McCalman and cheese go together like, well, wine and cheese...
He walks in the door, exhausted. He’s been working for more than nine hours on the construction site, lifting heavy things, and he’s covered in a layer of fine wood dust. He slumps into a chair and bends over slowly to unlace his work boots. “Daddy!...
The Telluride Medical Center and Fire Protection District simulate a mass casualty incident [caption id="attachment_20970" align="aligncenter" width="156"] Dr. Diana Koelliker, Medical Director of Emergency Services & Telluride EMS Director[/caption] Dr. Diana Koelliker, medical director of Emergency and Trauma Services of the Telluride Medical Center (TMC) hangs up...
During the dot.com 1990s, Telluride was on fire, its tie-dyed personality shifting to J. Crewish as real estate sales boomed. Back in the days when it seemed the music would never stop, Telluride Arts (then TCAH) threw a big community party, the infamous Beaux Arts Ball, a...
“Wine is the only thing that makes us happy as adults for no reason,” cartoonist Saul Steinberg In vino, some split decisions about the veritas? Used to be if you knew wines you knew about the turf issue. The grape world seemed to be divided between terroirists...
