Headline news: March 10, 2010
New sign, new name
Hospital, other health services undergo marketing makeover
Chris Dickey
Everybody, more or less, in this community knows about Gunnison Valley Hospital. Most have heard of the Willows Assisted Living Center and the nursing home, which is called the Gunnison Living Community
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Gunnison Gallery Crawl this week
The First Friday Gunnison Gallery Crawl and Music takes place tomorrow night, March 5, from 5 to 7 p.m
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Mook-Fiddler guest directs Western play
Western State College’s upcoming theater production, “Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls” by Naomi Iizuka, promises to be the most entertaining event of the semester. It is a delightful play about relationships, love and friends as their different lives collide in New York, Alaska and Hawaii
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Alpin Hong returns to Crested Butte
Classical pianist Alpin Hong will be back at the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte on Friday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m
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WSC wrestlers defend RMAC title
Matt Smith
WSC Wrestling — A battalion of Mountaineer wrestling fans entered hostile territory on Saturday in Alamosa and it was their boys who dropped the final bomb.
Eleventh ranked Western State (WSC) claimed individual titles in the final three matches of the tournament to put an exclamation point on their title-defending run at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC)/Region Four Championships on the campus of Adams State
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Upset upended in Durango
Skyhawks clip WSC women in final seconds
WSC Women’s Basketball — It was the perfect upset in the making, until a 3-point bank-shot with 5.5 seconds left took all of that away
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Blades take tourney title
For the second consecutive season, the Gunnison Blades midget hockey squad is headed to the Colorado Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) Cup in Denver.
Coming off a regular season championship run, the Blades added to their resume by dominating competition at the Rocky Mountain Youth Hockey League (RMYHL) tournament, held in Durango this past weekend
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Coal mines get roadless reprieve
Gunnison County companies can pursue ‘venting’ of underground expansions
Will Shoemaker
Under apparent pressure from Colorado leaders, the U.S
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Tuition 'flexibility' gains support
Will Shoemaker
Flexibility in setting tuition rates has been pushed in recent months by Western State College President Jay Helman and other higher education leaders as a means of averting financial disaster.
They may get their wish
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The 'states' of floating rights
HB 1188 prompts a look outside Colorado’s borders
Will Shoemaker
A legislative attempt in Colorado at protecting commercial rafters from lawsuit has led proponents to point beyond the state’s borders in support of the bill.
Colorado is just one of a few states in the West that, many believe, hasn’t settled the question of whether the public’s right to float rivers and streams through private property exists
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