It’s the BS that makes my head explode. One thing I’ve always appreciated about this place is that people can speak …
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Omelets, patience and a super bloom in the valley
There’s the old saying that to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs. With our office over by …
Read More »Holiday weekend celebrations, and Mark Walter’s downtown movement
It used to be that the normal start to a Crested Butte summer would believe it or not, be the Fourth …
Read More »May observations
Some quick observations in the middle of May as the snow keeps melting and the tourists are still just a trickle: …
Read More »Focusing on the positive with local housing, trash and communication
During an off-season happy hour last week, a long-time resident of Crested Butte who has always a rented a place in …
Read More »Little things
Sometimes it’s the little things that matter, especially in the slow season. And what might be little to some can be …
Read More »The hope of spring color
I’m not saying my heart skipped a beat when I spotted the butterscotch-colored flowers by Totem Pole Park on Monday, but …
Read More »Off-season is peaking but there is still stuff happening
Just because the April school break is the slowest week of the year for Crested Butte doesn’t mean nothing is happening. …
Read More »This snowpack helps but the feds are right — it’s time for real action
The deck at the office has more than five feet of compressed snow on it so it might be a while …
Read More »End of the season weirdness collides with poor communication. Not a great combo.
There are more than a few weird things with the end of this season, and I’ve noticed that some communication failures …
Read More »Letter: Watko letters full of misinformation
Dear editor, Neil Watko’s latest letter in the March 24th issue of the CB News was signed as representing the ‘Gunnison …
Read More »Ahhh, spring in the high country
It’s not always easy living at 9,000 feet at the end of the road in a ski town. Heck, the official …
Read More »Skaters demonstrate the power of local democracy …and how to frame housing discussion
What’s not to love when small town democracy works – and it can still happen here often. It happened Monday night …
Read More »Navigating the atmospheric river
By Mark Reaman Three years ago this week we were in lockdown mode. My editorial then cited one of the incident …
Read More »March forth….
By Mark Reaman It doesn’t seem possible, but we are hitting the homestretch of the ski season. It is hard to …
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