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Swearing in of our County Commissioner. Photo Credit - Casie Lashley.

Ongoing • Monthly “Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Northern San Juans Group” Zoom meeting. Date: 12/07/20 Time: 1-3 PM Subject: Inside BLM Planning - Join guest Bruce Krickbaum, veteran BLM planner, for a presentation and discussion focussing on BLM’s NEPA process, grazing permitting, and recent e-bike decisions.

Photo Credit - Caleb Leland.

Independence brought me to this land where I could work with heavy hand and I could rely on my own self reliant not on communal help “Self-made” is my battle cry when criticized by freedoms’ lies if I, too, could get to where I am it’s not my fault their “can’t” replaced my “can” Success is how you play the game an achievement that affords no blame this recipe of hard work cannot be bought when mixed with a childhood of “have-not” Progress is where we are today trial and tribulation sit at bay comfort and ease we can now sell So what if we act like a cancer cell? Independence and Self-made stride along Success and Progress’s side Four Horsemen off into the smoke Of all the world’s burning hope..

A horse drawn cart makes it way over the Bear Creek Falls Bridge and Toll House on the Silverton-Ouray road in 1907. Courtesy of San Juan County Historical Society.

From the January 11, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard: THE DEVIL IN SILVERTON. Rev.

20 years ago January 11, 2001 An irritated town board of trustees had a field trip to the new Kendall Mountain Community Center on Tuesday afternoon to inspect the progress, or lack thereof, with the construction. ...

115 Years Ago From the September 30, 1905 edition of the Silverton Standard: WRECK ON THE RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN. On Tuesday afternoon of this week on the Rio Grande Southern railroad, near Glencoe, between Mancos and Dolores, there occurred the most serious wreck in the history of the line.

Staged gunfights are back on Blair Street You can watch the cast of Old West characters as they chase each other with (fake) bullets this Thursday-Saturday. The performance will be on the corner of 12th and Blair Street starting at 5:30 p.m.