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Headline news: May 22, 2013


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Close council race unfolds
Four new members seated among slate of six hopefuls
Will Shoemaker
In a close Gunnison City Council race Tuesday, only 30 votes separated four of the top vote-getting candidates.

According to unofficial results, Richard Hagan, Stu Ferguson, Carolyn Riggs and Anne Steinbeck received the highest vote totals among the slate of six candidates
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Smiths carry tradition’s torch to state
Matt Smith
Maddie Smith got the point when she came home to a 13-foot pole bending from one corner of her bedroom to the other this past summer.  

Her coach had put it there
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More than a movie theater
Return of the Mountaineer Theatre to Lake City means more than something to do on a Saturday night
Matt Smith
The faded scribble marks on the wall behind the concession stand are a symbol for what the Mountaineer Theater means to the sleepy little community of Lake City.
Each penned line documents the height of one past employee or another, alongside their respective initials and the date
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RE1J budget a balance of bad and good news
Public presentation slated for June 3
Matt Smith
For as much good news that was delivered in the Gunnison Watershed School District’s draft budget for next school year, there was enough bad news to mean little relief from recent K-12 funding woes.

According to RE1J Finance Director Stephanie Juneau, who presented the draft budget to the School Board Monday, after weighing the good and the bad the district is still expecting to receive $2
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County moving to ban pot business
BOCC decides that ‘opting out’ is most prudent move
Will Shoemaker
After state lawmakers passed a trio of bills this year regulating recreational marijuana, Gunnison County leaders aren’t waiting to see what those measures could mean locally.

The Gunnison County Commissioners directed County Attorney David Baumgarten on Tuesday to begin drafting an ordinance that would ban that type of commercial activity in the unincorporated county
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