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[click "Play" to listen to Joan May speaking with Susan]

IMGP0907 The premise is simple: if we want a sustainable future, if Telluride wants a future at all, the region needs to be prepared. Ready, fire, aim is not an acceptable strategy.

Telluride's Regional Economic Futures Task Force is the offspring of two meetings held in 2008 and 2009: The Regional Sustainability Visioning Process and Thinking Outside the Box Canyon. Its purpose: under the banner of The New Community Coalition, REFTF is meant to help our extended community identify the best – read elegant, efficient and effective – ways to support and enhance our environment and our economy, which are joined at the hip. There is a clear need to leverage existing businesses, while identifying gap opportunities that allow people to remain part of a community that becomes multigenerational.
13 January, 2010 /

At Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library, program coordinator Scott Doser hits the ground running in the New Year.

Trying to come to terms with death and dying? Navel gazing is a start. Reading classic Yoga or Buddhist texts would definitely help. Or visit the Program Room of the Wilkinson Public Library, tonight, Monday, January 11, 6 p.m.

The Library is screening the cult classic about a very rich, very suicidal young man named Harold, age 20, who falls in love with a very poor, life-loving woman – she grieves for a small tree, suffocating in the city's pollution – named Maude, who is 79 3/4. "Harold and Maude" is the mommy of pop TV series such as "Six Feet Under" and all ensuring existential meditations, "Dexter" included, on the fragility of life and black humor that surrounds death.

11 January, 2010 /

Come one. Come all.Many Telluriders/Mountain Villagers are feeling the pain of the economic downturn. Our governments are intimately aware of how dependent we have all become on real estate and retail sales. Some businesses are closing up shop; others have had to lay off long-time...

10 January, 2010 /

by Kris Holstrom 

Editor's note: TNCC's Kris Holstrom took the adage about "out with the old" literally. The culmination of her holiday trifecta was a purge. ps: Kris says to tell you the picture isn't of her house.

Fresh face on old walls

Claybrights The new year is a great time for a fresh start. At Tomtem Farm, we've been in our house for 20+ years and its age was showing. However, a bit of research, some time,  a little money and helping hands are doing wonders to restore our little house on the mesa.

First stop was EcoSpaces in Lawson Hill to pick up the eco-friendly products we  had ordered, but it turned out UPS had taken some time off and our shipment wasn't going to make it until after my helper Kirk had gone back to college. Necessity being the mother of invention, we changed course in midstream, choosing American Clay plasters, a product EcoSpaces had in stock, but a whole different scenario than painting.
06 January, 2010 /

The Telluride AIDS Benefit Fashion Show is a glam slam with a mission: raise funds to support adults and children living with HIV/AIDS locally and throughout the state. The insider's Sneak Peek is Thursday, February 25, at the Telluride Conference Center. Tickets for the...

03 January, 2010 /


It snowed in Telluride the night of December 30, but New Year's Eve dawned under crystalline skies. Blue skies and new powder snow- does it get any better than that?

We took Gina the Dog for a snowshoe hike in the hills behind our house, had a quick breakfast, then I met a friend at Giuseppe's to take a few runs. By then it was time to head down the mountain to meet my student at the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program for an afternoon lesson.

Skiing over, time to rush home, clean up, dress "Telluride formal" and head out for the evening. 

03 January, 2010 /


As Telluride Inside... and Out completes its first full year, we thought it might be appropriate to take a look back at 2009. We traveled outside Telluride from time to time, and covered some of those trips, but this article is just about one memorable year in the San Miguel Valley.

This is probably a good time to provide a "road map" to those of you who may be new to Telluride Inside... and Out. "How do I navigate this website?"

31 December, 2009 /
[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with George Gray]


Wednesday, December 30, 7 p.m., Telluride's Michael D. Palm Theatre holds its end-of-year fundraiser. Sharing the stage for the fun and games will be members of the Telluride Choral Society and Mark Galbo's Rock and Roll Academy, not to mention the star of the show, George Gray –  rather, George's alter ego resplendent in a sequined jumpsuit, paying tribute to none other than The King.

28 December, 2009 /