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03 Jun Telluride Foundation: $53k in Scholarships to Graduating Seniors
Ouray high school senior Julia Vann named Neil Armstrong Scholarship Recipient The end of the school year highlights a generous number of scholarships awarded by the Telluride Foundation to Telluride, Norwood, Nucla and Ouray high school students. Scholarships this year included a $20,000 Neil Armstrong...
24 Apr ALACAZEM 2015.04.23
April 23 to 30, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter The Taurus zodiac month lasts from approximately April 19th to May 20th of every year, but due to the fact that the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution around...
06 Apr Outlaw Reflection: Paddle Moon
The end of ski season marks the official start of Telluride’s anodyne off season, when many locals hit the road in search of adventure near and far. This story by former Telluride local Oleh Lysiak is about one perfect solo fishing expedition in a kayak on Lake Powell. Read...
11 Feb Zach Deputy for Mardi Gras
Sheridan Arts Foundation & Steve Gumble’s SBG Productions presents a Mardi Gras celebration with Zach Deputy. Zach Deputy is live at the historic Sheridan Opera House on Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Tickets are $20 GA floor and $30 reserved balcony and on sale at SheridanOperaHouse.com. Zach...
24 Jan Snow Sunday: Climbing Mountain Quail with Teenagers
To be honest, at the start, there wasn’t very much enthusiasm about hiking up Mountain Quail, a ski run perched at the outer edge of Telluride’s Black Iron Bowl. It sits at roughly 12,500 feet and is only reached after a 30 to 45 minute...
03 Jan ALACAZEM 2015.01.01
January 1 to 8, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars It is New Year’s Day morning and I’m sitting at our dining room table watching the snow fall, trying to come up with appropriate words for the first Alacazem column of 2015....
10 Dec Outlaw Reflections: Youngest of the Old Timers
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...
07 Oct In Telluride’s Backyard: Exploring the Four Corners
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it, Edmund Burke. Here’s the dirt on dirt. Dirt (or soil) isn’t just a mix of clay, sand and humus that lies over bedrock. It isn’t simply dust, grime or filth either. For archaeologists Mark Varien...