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Way Back!

Way Back!

Way Back!

140 YEARS AGO From the May 30, 1884 edition of the (Ouray) Solid Muldoon: POLAR BEAR HUNT PLANNED FOR 4TH IN SILVERTON. Silverton is agitating a 4th of July blow-out. Snoshoe races, rowing matches, coasting and a polar bear hunt will perhaps be the principal attractions.
Iron Horse podium- 1st Cooper Wells, 2nd Griff Pinto, 3rd Ethan Bates 4th Patrick Matlock, 5th Dashen Prigge. Photo credit Cliff Pinto

Iron Horse podium- 1st Cooper Wells, 2nd Griff Pinto, 3rd Ethan Bates 4th Patrick Matlock, 5th Dashen Prigge. Photo credit Cliff Pinto

Silverton’s Griff Pinto on Iron Horse Podium

Griff Pinto, a local Silverton 12-year-old youth athlete, finished second place in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Race in his division this last Saturday, coming in at 3 hours and 19 minutes, beating the train from Durango to Silverton.

In Brief

Call for Summer Sounds Volunteers You can help make the magic happen! Silverton Creative District is seeking fun loving, reliable, and energetic volunteers to assist with the Summer Sounds Concert Series. For more information or to sign up for a volunteer shift, visit https://tinyurl.
Another Roller Coaster!

Another Roller Coaster!

Another Roller Coaster!

Tuesday: Another roller coaster day! Clear with an early high temp. Grey then cleared. Late afternoon rain. High gray overcast before dark. 60.9° high. Wednesday: 30.2° low. Still with small cumulus out of the west. Faint cirrus downstream.

Mountain Happenings

Ongoing • Silverton Creative District Meetings held the 1st Monday of the month from 4 - 6 pm Email info@ silvertoncreativedistrict.org for more information.
Joint town and county meeting Monday night at Kendall. Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos

Joint town and county meeting Monday night at Kendall. Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos

Tri-State and SMPA Start Work on Cement Creek Substation

San Miguel Power Association’s CEO & General Manager Brad Zaporski, SMPA’s COO Jeremy Fox, SMPA’s Communications Executive Alex Shelly, and Tri-State’s Senior Manager Doug Dean met with the Town of Silverton Trustees and the San Juan County Commissioners at their joint meeting Monday night May...

Medicare Fraud Prevention Week Teaches Everyone How to Prevent Fraud

■ Caryn Hill, SHIP Medicare and Senior Medicare Patrol Counselor, San Juan Basin Area Agency on Aging (Silverton, CO) – Fraud costs Medicare an estimated $60 billion per year. It costs Medicare beneficiaries in time, stress, their medical identities, and potentially their health.

Looking Back!

25 Years Ago May 20, 1999 Thanks to the recent donations from the Ghost Town Club of Colorado, the unmarked graves of six local pioneers will receive granite markers this sum- mer.