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KVNF threw Montrose its first punk festival, with free tickets, eight bands and no idea whether anyone would come. The turnout was exceptional! Brody Wilson spent the afternoon at River Bottom Park asking the people who cam out what it felt like to be there. The answers were about belonging.
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GOP gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx has made frequent appearances at churches across Colorado, raising questions about whether some of those events crossed federal restrictions on political activity by tax-exempt organizations. The story examines the use of church resources in Marx’s campaign, including campaign-style videos and rallies, and whether the campaign properly paid churches for events.
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Last week, we began answering the question that I often get when teaching Mindfulness which is "Does this get easier?" We started by examining how it can make life easier, and said "Yes, it absolutely does". And today we're going to talk about how the practice of Mindfulness itself, gets easier.
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If you’ve ever stepped outside on a clear night here on the Western Slope, especially away from the lights of the town, you’ve probably noticed something so obvious we rarely question it; the sky is dark. Not just shadowed – but truly, deeply dark.It seems simple, but for astronomers, this idea leads to one of the most interesting questions in science, If the universe is full of stars, why isn’t the night sky bright everywhere you look?
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Former Montrose County School District administrator Brian Purnell, whose complaint prompted an investigation into district leadership, is threatening to sue the district unless it agrees to a settlement of nearly $570,000.
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Colorado's campaign season picked up a bit on Saturday at the Club 20 debates in Grand Junction, but Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx and U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper did no attend. Bente Birkeland from the Colorado Capitol News Alliance talked with Rocky Mountain Community Radio about who did show up, and what they said.
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Montrose County Commissioner Sean Pond posted a list of local Democrats and Republicans that he believes have formed a "cross-party establishment" in Montrose.
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Paonia farmer Laura Parker describes how an unseasonably warm March and subsequent summer drought disrupted her seed-growing operation.
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When I was 18 and first worked as a river guide, I assumed I had to be as tough — or even tougher — than the guys I worked with.It was the early 2000s, when few women were guiding. Though I loved being on the river, I often felt isolated, thinking I had to work harder than anyone else to be taken seriously. I believed that in part because I didn’t know the stories of women who had come before me.Little by little, I began to hear about Georgie White, the first female guide on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon. She started Georgie’s Royal River Rats in the early 1950s and made a name for herself running huge motorboats — stocked with Coors and manned exclusively by Los Angeles firemen. Her trips were known to be raucous and so were her outfits, leopard prints preferred. But the stories sometimes made her seem more like a caricature, a wild and outrageous woman.
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If you live in Ridgway you have seen Sue Husch everywhere: the Sherbino, the Second Chance thrift shop, Ridgway Rendezvous Arts & Craft Festival i. On Tuesday she was in Washington, D.C., receiving one of the National Park Service's highest partnership honors for a career most of her neighbors don't even know about.
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