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Brody WilsonThe Montrose County School Board has announced that Superintendent Dr. Carrie Stephenson resigned, at their request. -
Marty DurlinLocal playwright and director Marty Durlin is bringing a new musical theater experiment, “Outspoken,” to the Blue Sage Center for the Arts in Paonia. The piece explores nearly 200 years of activism through the stories and words of five women: Lucy Stone, Kate Richards O’Hare, Emma Goldman, Judi Bari and Greta Thunberg.
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An interview with Buffy Witt, the former director Hinsdale County EMS, about the difficulties of running a volunteer dependent agency in the most remote county in the lower 48 states. -
Sara Rinne spent nearly 18 years with the Montrose library. Now she's deputy director of the Western Colorado Alliance for Community Action. She talks with KVNF about grassroots organizing on the Western Slope — and the Alliance's Power Forward conference, coming to Grand Junction on August 29. -
Bear encounters are becoming increasingly common in Paonia, and the situation took a deadly turn last week when a resident shot and killed a bear in his backyard. -
Artist Karen Floyd is turning old unused newspaper boxes into free art exchanges. The first News to Muse box is up at Gambles Hardware in Hotchkiss, and Floyd wants them in every town in Colorado. -
If you’ve noticed more bear sightings lately, you’re not imagining it. Colorado Parks & Wildlife is reporting a major spike in bear activity statewide. Several Western Slope communities are scrambling to reduce human caused attractants before the situation becomes even more intense. -
Some living trees in the Uncompahgre measured 9% moisture this summer — drier than the legal limit for kiln-dried lumber. So why did the Gold Mountain Fire leave some whole hillsides untouched? KVNF news rode up Owl Creek Pass to find out, and the answer turns out to be a tree. -
The Montrose County School Board continued Superintendent Dr. Carrie Stephenson’s paid leave and dismissed a grievance she filed against the board during its meeting Tuesday night. -
The Montrose County School Board continued Superintendent Dr. Carrie Stephenson’s paid leave and dismissed a grievance she filed against the board during its meeting Tuesday night. -
Jenny Williams spent nearly nine years inside Google and Microsoft before leaving for New Zealand. Her new thriller strands six writers on an island competing for a publishing prize. One of them is an AI. She talks with Brody Wilson about temptation, theft and transparency. -
The Gold Mountain Fire has grown by a single acre in ten days, and evacuation zones are slowly standing down. But crews are still on the mountain undoing their own fire lines — and the burn scar will be a dangerous place to walk for months.
