Missy Votel

2 weeks ago | durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best |Missy Votel

This week, Jonathan Thompson brings us a story (p.8-9) about Ol’ Big Foot, the last known wolf to roam southeastern Utah in the 1910s. But Sarah Melotte, writing for the Daily Yonder, has a story on the Bigfoot, as in the hairy, mysterious, man-beast said to roam the wilderness and haunt our days and nights. Over the last couple years, Melotte said she has been, “omnivorously consuming content” about encounters with strange creatures whose existence scientists can’t prove.

3 weeks ago | durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel

Where else could an alley drifter be mistaken for a bike shop employee by a UPS driver and entrusted with $6,500 in goods, only to abscond with said goods? But wait, it gets better. The alley absconder left a trail of clues in his misdeeds – including a cameo on a surveillance video. Within 24 hours, the case is blown wide open by the small-town sleuthing grapevine, as were the cardboard boxes containing the goods, which, unfortunately, were not all that good at that point.

3 weeks ago | durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best |Missy Votel

Seems like the next great thing in ski town real estate is not a place to park your butt for the night, but a place to park your wheels. That’s right: we’re talking parking spaces. “If you don’t own a condo in the central core of town, it can be very convenient to have a parking spot close to everything,” Hank Carter, an Aspen realtor told The Denver Post. “During the Fourth of July here, it is so crowded.

1 month ago | durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel |Molly Cruse |Allen Best

The return of trails season to area BLM lands came a few weeks early this year. On Tues., April 15, the BLM, in coordination with CPW, announced it was lifting winter wildlife closures on trails on Grandview Ridge and Animas City Mountain. This was a full two weeks earlier than the anticipated opening May 1. “This year, there isn’t much snow at low to mid-elevations.

1 month ago | durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel |Molly Cruse |Allen Best

Now for something from the shameless self-promotion department: our very own longtime columnist, poet and Montezuma County friend David Feela has published his fifth book. Titled “Feelasophy,” it is a collection of 70 short, wry and often-sublime essays on life’s absurdities and blessings – many of which have appeared in these pages (and others) over the last 10 years.