55-year-old Ned Overend’s victory capping off a truly classic Iron Horse Bicycle Classic and making for a memorable 40th edition of the race

Durango schools getting a $200,000 scholarship from the Marc and Jane Katz Family Fund to help maintain academic excellence in the current budget crunch
The recent completion of Florida Road construction marking the end of a long and bumpy road for many local residents
The dam masters at McPhee Reservoir serving up an abridged Dolores River season – less than two weeks – in spite of the best spring snowpack in recent memory  
A massive wildfire season taking shape south of the Colorado border with more than a dozen large blazes currently raging in Arizona and New Mexico
The Western Caucus, led by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introducing legislation that would remove wilderness and roadless protection from nearly 43 million acres of public lands