In the middle of the summer of 1988, a young band from Vermont drove a beat-up truck across the country to Telluride to play a string of shows here.

Last year, when Coloradans got a say in whether the Democrats would nominate their first black candidate or their first woman candidate for president, the caucuses were a very big deal.

As President Obama calls for more nuclear power, Colorado contemplates putting two uranium mills into operation.

Everyone knows Telluride doesn?t look like Vail or even its haughty cousin Aspen, with a downtown studded with concrete buildings.

He traveled from his home in Dolores County for work. He drilled holes and lit dynamite and hauled rocks up from underground ? rocks that not only powered a nation but paid his family?s bills. But when uranium mines near the Utah border closed this fall, Larry Kibel lost his job along with scores of other workers, and he found himself part of a very unfortunate statistic.

Telluride High School students Devin McCarthy (L) and Chancee Forestier (R) from Jeremy Voytko?s chemistry class instruct Telluride first graders, from left, Raven Snaedr, Margaret Byrom, Kyra Levan and Owen Distefeno in the science of making ice cream on Friday afternoon. Voytko?s students are studying chemical reactions and conducted experiments with the first graders. [Photo by Merrick Chase]

The Telluride Regional Airport will complete the crusade against its once-bowed runway, thanks to $17 million from the federal government.

In some countries, International Women?s Day on March 8 is a National Holiday where people honor all the women in their lives. In the United States, it?s a so-so affair that mostly passes unnoticed.

Former co-workers said that Theresa J. Powell was a nice person and good to work with. They said she was full of energy and always bouncing around. Freddy Enriquez, her co-worker at La Cocina de Luz, where she worked last year, called her ?Jiminy,? after Jiminy Cricket.?

Reilly Capps Telluride Marshal?s Department Feb. 23 CONFUSION: Oh, how she got quite a shock When she saw in her parking lot Her red car was gone But then she checked around And found it was in a new spot. Feb. 27 ELK EUTHANIZED: An elk apparently fell off the hillside onto the bike path and broke its snout, and it looked like the animal wasn?t going to be able to feed itself. Scared, the elk charged a couple deputies who came to check on it, and they had to scramble over a rail for protection. It seemed like the animal?s snout wasn?t going to heal right and it looked like it would starve, so a deputy used his Springfield XD service pistol and shot it, twice, in the head. Public works took care of the carcass.

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Snow showers. New snow accumulation 2 to 4 inches. Highs 25 to 35. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.

Snow likely. Snow accumulation 1 to 3 inches. Lows 15 to 25. Chance of snow 70 percent.