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Jaquelin Acosta, $3000 Colorado Mesa University

Jaquelin Acosta, $3000 Colorado Mesa University

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The 2025 Joel Zucker Memorial Scholarship Awards

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Press Release from the Joel Zucker Memorial Scholarship Awards We are proud to announce this year’s Joel Zucker Memorial Scholarships to six graduating High School seniors and 10 Continuing Education students for a total of $47,000.
Bill Simon’s memorial last Thursday at Kendall Mountain Community Center was packed with about 100 people in attendance. Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos

Bill Simon’s memorial last Thursday at Kendall Mountain Community Center was packed with about 100 people in attendance. Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos

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Bill Simon's memorial

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
The Silverton Volunteer fire team spent this past weekend in Ridgeway training on car extraction. Photo credit SSJCVFD

The Silverton Volunteer fire team spent this past weekend in Ridgeway training on car extraction. Photo credit SSJCVFD

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The Silverton Volunteer

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

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Looking Back!

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
30 Years Ago June 1, 1995 My wife and I, along with countless other people, took great pleasure over the last few summers in watching the beavers in Cunningham Gulch systematically build their dams and intricate waterways and raise their young ... But ...
Eureka School in 1904, taken from Animas Street, looking east showing the front of the building San Juan County Historical Society photo

Eureka School in 1904, taken from Animas Street, looking east showing the front of the building San Juan County Historical Society photo

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Eureka School, 1904

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Way Back!

Way Back!

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Way Back!

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
135 years ago From the June 7, 1890 edition of the Silverton Standard:MINER EDITOR FINED $10 FOR FIGHTING. On looking over the police docket, we regret to see that our esteemed contemporary, Alf. Iles.

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In Brief

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Clean Up Day Thursday, June 5th at 10 AM, Kingfisher Wild Land Trust of Silverton will be doing trash pickup around the dump. Come join us, as the more hands the merrier!
Michael Crockett proprietor of Anthrocene Contracting is removing timber and creating trail stairs out of it. Photo credit Anthrocene Contracting

Michael Crockett proprietor of Anthrocene Contracting is removing timber and creating trail stairs out of it. Photo credit Anthrocene Contracting

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Two Silverton Locals Are Professional Trail Builders

Deanne Gallegos
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Two Silverton locals are professional trail builders who have both started their own trail building businesses and are working right here in the San Juan Mountains.
Aspens Are Leafing Out!

Aspens Are Leafing Out!

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Aspens Are Leafing Out!

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Willows leafed out on the eleventh, and aspens began on the twentieth, with plenty more appearing on the valley floor and on slopes surrounding Silverton. It's so incredible to be up here in the high San Juans this time of the year! After .
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