Cameron Arthur and Gillian Kelley enjoy the new $50,000 playground, donated by Bill Lunn, that will be dedicated today at the Lake City Community School.

Rick Spitzer is the author of "Colorado Mountain Passes: the States Most Accessible High Country Roadways," which is for sale at The Bookworm of Edwards for $21.95. Parts of the book will be serialized in the Vail Daily every Sunday this summer.

Cogswell Gallery in Vail, Colorado will host Salt Lake City-based painter Allen K. Lund at the gallery beginning Tuesday.

A Novel Idea bookstore at the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch, 530 Grand Ave., will have a book sale Aug.

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Origin Of Name: Slumgullion is the muddy sediment in the bottom of a sluice box.

" Acclaimed by The New Yorker Magazine in April 2009, "Trio Solisti - " the most exciting piano trio in America" is returning to Ouray County for their seventh consecutive year on Friday, June 26 at the 4H Event Center in Ridgway at 7 p.m. Trio Solisti has made critically-acclaimed debut performances at Washington's Kennedy Center, New York's ...

Grand Junction, died May 13, 2009, at St. Mary's Hospital. A private family service is planned.

Colorado's mountain snowpack is melting rapidly. Why? A long stretch of warmer than normal temperatures and sunny days.

" Western Hardrock Watershed Team VISTA volunteers took over the steps of the Ouray County Courthouse earlier this week.

The National Weather Service says a fast-moving storm will sweep into the northern and central mountains Saturday, bringing from 4 to 8 inches of snow.