Telluride Daily Planet

The Telluride Daily Planet is a community newspaper located in Telluride, Colorado, focusing on local news and happenings. It is released three times a week on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. As noted in its masthead, the paper has been in circulation since 1898 and has merged with two other publications, the Telluride Times and the Telluride Journal.

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'You'll be waking up to snow'

6 days ago | telluridenews.com | Leslie Vreeland

“Mother Nature doesn’t care what time of year it is” when it comes to delivering a whomp of San Juans weather — and challenging driving conditions, Susan Lilly said. “We have to be smart out there,” added Lilly, public information officer for the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office. “If the roads are slick, drive slower and allow for extra distance between cars.”Slick roads are highly likely this weekend, according to Kris Sanders.
Former Telluride residents open primate rescue center

6 days ago | telluridenews.com | Amy Peters

Earth Day, this Tuesday, April 25, honors the world’s flora and fauna, a cause that former Telluride residents Cari and Ryan Mackey have embraced at Morrillo Beach Eco Resort — which they have owned and operated along the shores of the Azuero Peninsula of Panama since 2018.
Colorado senate passes bill to protect public lands

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Sophie Stuber

Colorado lawmakers unanimously passed a bill in late March to protect public lands in a rare display of bipartisan support. Colorado Senate Joint Resolution 25-009 focuses on preventing actions that would privatize public lands. The bill reiterates the state’s commitment to continue to keep public lands under federal stewardship.
Jigsaw 'chilling,' creative writing, staying safe at home

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Leslie Vreeland

Just like kids on Spring Break, local library programming for Telluride youth pretty much chilled out these past couple of weeks. That changes this coming Monday, April 21, when school resumes, and entertaining, enriching programming for teens and tweens heats up at the Wilkinson.
Spring is looking dry and hot for the local watershed

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Sophie Stuber

With temperatures warming up and local mountains starting to melt out, hydrologists, meteorologists and environmental groups are starting to look toward spring runoff and what these conditions will mean for the watershed in the coming months. Local snowpack is sitting well below normal. While statewide snowpack is at 83% of normal, in the San Miguel Basin, snowpack is sitting at about 69% of median. With spring approaching, the San Miguel is exiting the season of snowpack accumulation.
One foot in tradition, another in 'fresh songwriting'

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Leslie Vreeland

No Depression has said they make “rousing, old-time-style music fueled by acerbic, modern-day wit.”“We have a mutual admiration for old-time, and blues, and folk music,” Amy Alvey allowed of herself and Mark Kilianski, better known as the guitar-and-fiddle duo Golden Shoals.
Native Plant Master courses in May

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Ellen Metrick

Spring is opening flowers and leaf buds, pulling grass out of its hat, and for many, it’s time to open plant books and put Latin names and floral lore to use. Jacqueline Hudson at San Miguel Basin Colorado State University (CSU) Extension office (in the Glockson building in Norwood) is ready to help with advice, information and a package of classes for those curious or learned about native plants and their uses. Since 2007, the extension office has offered native plant classes.
Mock crash will show students the dangers of driving impaired

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Mia Rupani

It’s an up close and personal look at the dangers of drunk driving.
Water brings Wright’s Mesa together

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Ellen Metrick

In a historic meeting on April 2, with help from a grant from the Colorado Water Conservation Board, leaders of Wright’s Mesa water stakeholder groups met to discuss priorities and begin work with an engineering consultant firm to plan for the future of water in the region. “There is light,” said co-founder of Wright’s Mesa Water Commission (WMWC) and Norwood Mayor Candy Meehan.
Two candidates vie for sheriff’s seat

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Mia Rupani

Two candidates tossed their hats into the ring for the position of San Miguel County sheriff. San Miguel County Undersheriff Dan Covault and Operations Sergeant Lane Masters were the only applicants for the position.Picking someone to fill the shoes of retiring sheriff William ‘Bill’ Masters is no easy decision. Bill Masters, whose retirement is effective June 2, 2025, is Colorado’s longest-serving sheriff. His career in law enforcement started in Telluride and spanned five decades.