Way Back

145 Years Ago From the May 14, 1875 edition of the (Pueblo) Colorado Daily Chieftain: SILVERTON TO GET A NEWSPAPER. We have received a copy of the prospectus of a paper to be called the La Plata Miner, to be published at Silverton, La Plata county, Colorado.

Looking Back

10 Years Ago May 13, 2010 Over on Blair Street, Mike Geryak has been tinkering with a demonstration model of a solar-powered street lamp with an old-fashioned look. He put much of it together from materials scavenged from the dump, and it looks pretty good.

VIDEO: The Silverton Standard rides again!

The Silverton Standard has been the subject of a number of recent videos highlighting the historic newspaper’s importance to the community and its struggle to survive as a nonprofit – “Silverton Public Newspaper.

Destination: Silverton

This summer's magazine includes feature stories on the many Old Western movies filmed in Silverton, and the Legend of the Highland Mary Mine. Was a speculator from New York guided by a psychic in his quest for a "Lake of Gold"?   Destination: Silverton is distributed free throughout the region.

'The Mountains Were Angry'

A fierce storm was just getting started in the high San Juans and it was snowing pretty hard at about noon on Friday, Dec. 16, when Alex Lewis, 29, of Denver and his friend Matt Koch, 32, of Gypsum started skiing up the Ophir Road from U.S.