In Brief
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Bear With Us Here at The Silverton Standard and the Miner Newspaper We are putting THE back into the name!
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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Monday October 20th train was full of passengers. Photo by DeAnne Gallegos
The Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Train Back on the Tracks
Deanne Gallegos
Saturday, October 11th, after torrential rains in Silverton and the Southwest Colorado region, the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Train turned around two out of the three daily scheduled trains at Cascade.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Retaining wall structure at the Coal Bank Pass location Mile Point 56.9. Photo by CDOT
Retaining wall structure at the Coal Bank Pass location Mile Point 56
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
Saturation In The San Juans
Saturation In The San Juans
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After the most intensely dry summer, how does it feel to be so completely saturated! After all, we are very much part of the realm that surrounds us, so let me know!
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Mountain Happenings
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Ongoing
• Move Yoga Schedule
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 pm Gym Hours: 5:30 am- 9pm, 7 days a week (closed during yoga class).Please reach out to move. silverton@gmail.com. if you would like to join the Silverton’s community gym space.
• Free...
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Large rocks fall in middle of Red Mountain Pass on Saturday. Photo by CDOT
Flooding, Torrential Rains, Rescues, and Evacuations Regionally
Deanne Gallegos
This past week brought much needed rain to the Four Corners area, filling up reservoirs, lakes, rivers, and roads with flash floods and days on end of downpours.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
What to Expect on Public Lands During the Shutdown
What to Expect on Public Lands During the Shutdown
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Article by Stephanie Weber San Juan Mountain Association
'The report of my death was an exaggeration,' is a well-known - and often mis-quoted - remark by Mark Twain. Recently, the San Juan Mountains Association was the subject of a similar misunderstanding.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Shak Powers is thw new Region 9 Deputy Director
Shak Powers named Region 9 Economic Development Deputy Director
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Shak Powers, Regional Projects Manager for the Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado (Region 9 EDD) has been promoted to the Deputy Director Position.
Powers has been with Region 9 EDD for three years and previously served as the Administrator of Montezuma County.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Terri and Dr Bob Brokering enjoy traveling during their retirement
Saying Goodbye to the Silverton Clinic: One chapter closes while another Begins
Submitted By San Juan
In 2005, “Dr. Bob” and Terri Brokering started seeing patients in Silverton as an extension of Dr. Bob’s Glenwood Springs Clinic practice on weekends and whenever they were in town renovating the Eureka Lodge that they had purchased in 1998.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Anvil Townhome units were staged at Purgatory for delivery to Silverton . Photo courtesy of Carrie Cline
Over the passes and through the rain, affordable housing units arrive in Silverton
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By Scout Edmondson Durango Herald Staff Writer (Originally ran in the Durango Herald Monday, Oct 13, 2025 edition)
Anne Chase didn’t get much sleep Thursday night.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
