TROOPER TIPS According to the meteorologists it is now officially summer. So that means there will be a lot more motorcycles on our roadways. So that is this month’s topic. I was a motor officer for t...

“The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears”. These are the w...

Shh ... Have you visited your local library lately? If you haven’t, you may want to check out some of the many things you can do there. Besides great books, movies, music, internet, and computer acces...

FROM THE PUBLISHER As new publishers, we find folks want to know where we stand on things. What’s your plan for the newspaper? Are you going to print stories or letters about this or that? Will you wr...

By Karen Risch It’s amazing to observe what grows in Ouray, a city of just a thousand people, living and working at an elevation of 7,500 - 8,400 feet. This hardy town lies in a sloping mountain bowl ...

by Mike Wiggins Lamar Wiggins hated risk. His aversion to it — coupled with his fear of an array of things — defined his life and, by extension, that of his family. A fear of heights meant when we tra...