We are half way through the winter season. Days are longer. Temperatures warmer. January (as mellow as it was) is behind …
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The good, the bad and the ugly…
The Good:* More than three feet of snow fell on the resort over seven days last week. More than that accumulated …
Read More »Keeping our friends in the valley
“I have to leave to live here…” —Long-time local preparing to leave for the summer for a decent paying job. Like …
Read More »What if?
What if it never snows? What will draw people here then? Just kidding. But in that vein, what can we do …
Read More »A lesson learned from AT&T and the BLM
It is the Tuesday after Christmas. I’m still all “Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men” …but on the final Tuesday …
Read More »Don’t dismiss all the options so quickly
It was good to see politics in action at Monday night’s Crested Butte work session. The topic was affordable housing fees. …
Read More »Spend the extra money for the “on-season”
So here’s what we know. It snowed so much during this time 20 years ago that every single lift was turning, …
Read More »It’s ultimately about the fun
It might not have been the most typical of opening weekends for a ski resort. But then again, with global weirding, …
Read More »Thanksgiving smiles…
*Crested Butte’s Jingles the cat made Denver’s 9News as the coolest cat in Colorado this past weekend. Just the idea of …
Read More »Opportunity for new life and energy
For those of us in a ski town, this weekend marks the start of a new year. We don’t have to …
Read More »There’s a new playbook in the Crested Butte council chambers
Getting a new Town Council is sort of like fielding a new football team at the start of a season. That …
Read More »Congratulations to a few of the 7,000,000,000
There are apparently now more than 7 billion people on this planet. We’d like to thank four of them. Leah Williams, …
Read More »Mixing election metaphors… baseball, cooking and candidates
This is going to be a close election in Crested Butte. Three of the four council candidates will end up sitting …
Read More »It’s your turn to ask the Fantastic Four (plus Huck) some questions
You should have your 2011 election ballot by now. If you live outside of Crested Butte, there aren’t many things to …
Read More »Mad as hell…
Monday was a holiday (Columbus Day) so with town hall, the banks and post office closed, I spent some time on …
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