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Turning tassels amid virus
Ridgway Class of 2020 graduate James “Rivers” Nunn stands during the ceremony Friday night at the Ouray County Fairgrounds. Ridgway’s graduates celebrated in a drive-thru graduation, with participants standing in decorated truck beds for the ceremony before driving through town in a parade.
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By Mike Wiggins, on June 4, 2020
Turning tassels amid virus

  • Ridgway Class of 2020 graduate James “Rivers” Nunn stands during the ceremony Friday night at the Ouray County Fairgrounds. Ridgway’s graduates celebrated in a drive-thru graduation, with participants standing in decorated truck beds for the ceremony before driving through town in a parade.

They came in Fords with green and white streamers tied to the door handles, in Dodges strung with flowers like entrants in the Rose Parade, in Jeeps festooned with gold foil balloon letters tha...

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