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Looking Back

News Staff
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
20 years ago January 11, 2001 An irritated town board of trustees had a field trip to the new Kendall Mountain Community Center on Tuesday afternoon to inspect the progress, or lack thereof, with the construction. ...
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WAYBACK

News Staff
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
115 Years Ago From the September 30, 1905 edition of the Silverton Standard: WRECK ON THE RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN. On Tuesday afternoon of this week on the Rio Grande Southern railroad, near Glencoe, between Mancos and Dolores, there occurred the most serious wreck in the history of the line.

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IN BRIEF

News Staff
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Staged gunfights are back on Blair Street You can watch the cast of Old West characters as they chase each other with (fake) bullets this Thursday-Saturday. The performance will be on the corner of 12th and Blair Street starting at 5:30 p.m.

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MOUNTAIN HAPPENINGS

News Staff
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Monday, Aug. 24 • Silverton Town Board, 7 p.m., via Zoom conference. Wednesday, Aug. 26 • San Juan County Board of Commissioner, 6:30p.m., County Courthouse. Ongoing Silverton Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon Tuesdays, July-September, Columbine Park.

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Who should get tested?

Becky Joyce
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Who should get tested for COVID-19? People with COVID-19 symptoms and those notified of exposure by SJCPH or another public health agency.

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Town is circulating a quality-of-life survey

News Staff
Thursday, August 27, 2020
As the Town of Silverton works to set goals and lay plans for the community in the next decade and beyond, Town Hall is circulating a survey of Silverton residents about their needs, desires, and concerns.
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County Road 2 needs more dust control

News Staff
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Editor; Has any Town or County official been out on County Road 2 this summer? If not, you have been lucky. You don’t need to worry about COVID-19, there are much greater respiratory hazards there. Once upon a time, this road was treated each summer with Magnesium Chloride to mitigate the dust.

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The bears are back

Bill Macdougall
Thursday, August 20, 2020
The lack of moisture this summer means fewer natural food sources for our local bear population, and bear activity in town is on the rise. In fact, one Silvertonian recently found an unwelcome ursine visitor snacking in his kitchen mid-day!

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Way up yonder in the tundra ...

Fredie Canfield
Saturday, August 15, 2020
August 2020 got off to a definitely dry start. We had .01 on the2nd and only a trace on three occasions during our first full weather week. That’s the way it was Wednesday the 5th. We started out at 35.2 degrees then warmed up to 76.
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