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Monitoring well instillation at the BPMD Site – Photo taken on September 25, 2025. Photo by EPA

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EPA End of Summer Updates

Thursday, October 23, 2025

This summer, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Forest Service (USFS), and State agencies worked on several important cleanup and monitoring projects across the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund Site (BPMD).

Days are getting shorter and colder in Silverton as Fall moves along through October. This is 5:45pm on Tuesday and the sun has already set behind Sultan & Turk mountains casting a shadow over Kendall Mountain. Photo by DeAnne Gallegos

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Days are getting shorter and colder in Silverton as Fall moves along through October

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

SFLC Recieved many raffle items from Silverton Businesses. Photo by SFLC

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Silverton Family Learning Center Raises Record $13,000 at Annual Fall Fundraiser

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Silverton Family Learning Center (SFLC) celebrated its most successful fall fundraiser to date, raising over $13,000 during its annual event held Saturday, October 18th at the Lacey Rose Saloon.

Image showing wall replacement work at the Coal Bank Pass location Mile Point 56.9. Photo by CDOT

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CDOT Highway 550 Rockfall Mitigation & Wall Project

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Since starting work on the US 550 Rockfall Mitigation and Wall replacement project in May, crews have conducted slope excavation, and rock removal work at the Deer Creek location (Mile Point 59.3).

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SAN JUAN COUNTY, CO

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

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Wondering what the big white boxes are just South of Anvil Mountain neighborhood along Highway 550? They are the delivered townhomes waiting to be installed for the Silverton Housing Authority’s Anvil Townhome project Photo by DeAnne Gallegos

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Wondering what the big white boxes are just South of Anvil Mountain neighborhood along Highway 550

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

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SAN JUAN COUNTY, CO

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

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Silverton Special Encore of the Ouray International Film Festival

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Silverton Special Encore of the Ouray International Film Festival

Julian Hood

Thursday, October 23, 2025

This weekend, the Grand Imperial Hotel will host a special encore of the Ouray International Film Festival on Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m., with food and drinks catered by Dera Deli. These films are fun, funny, and deeply human—each offering a real look into the human experience.

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Looking Back!

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

25 Years Ago October 19, 2000 Vern Stankewitz, the only sheriff’s candidate on the ballot, and Sue Kurtz, the incumbent and write-in hopeful, expressed their viewpoints last week in a forum ... Both times after she spoke, Kurtz received a loud and sustained applause from the 90...

The Gold King Mine and boarding house in 1906. San Juan County Historical Society photo

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Gold King Mine, 1906

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

135 years ago From the October 25, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard: STANDARD’S BIRTHDAY. Today is the Silverton Standard’s birthday. The Standard is fifty-two weeks old today. It sounds better to say fifty-two weeks than to say a year old, and that is why we make the remark.

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