KOTO Community Radio News

San Miguel County Public Health Director, Grace Franklin, provides local update on the coronavirus pandemic. Claudia Garcia Curzio provides Spanish interpretation.

- Telluride School District considers remote learning during holidays

- RVs impact local campsites

- One Book, One Canyon celebrates unsung suffrage heroes

What does the future of the gondola hold? The iconic piece of free public transportation faces an uncertain future with necessary maintenance, funding, and operating decisions looming. Telluride Mountain Village Owner's Association Executive Director, Anton Benitez, and Mountain Village Town Council member, Dan Caton, join to discuss what has and will happen with the system. Both are members of the intergovernmental committee planning for the future of the gondola.

- First responders rescue hiker on Wilson Peak

- Ski prices increase for 2020

- Preparing for a winter of COVID

- LIV urges “fearless conversations” around suicide

- A Day in the Life of a Miner

- Telluride Horror Show announces initial lineup

- Local medical groups prepare for flu plus COVID

- County hires new COVID-19 Long-Term Recovery Manager

- Telluride Historical Museum uses poetry to dig into the past

Dr. Diana Koelliker, Medical Director of Emergency and Trauma Services at the Telluride Medical Center and Telluride EMS Director, discusses how TMC is preparing for the onset of flu season in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Jacey Depriest provides spanish interpretation.

- Six months of COVID

- Lodging capacity to increase

- Art Goodtimes receives lifetime achievement award for poetry

The 3rd annual Original Thinkers Festival is October 1-11. Festival organizers David Holbrooke and Laura Shaunette discuss putting together the ideas festival in the historic year that is 2020. We talk to a few of the festival guests: journalist Joe Richman, designer and engineer Lee Kim, and Telluride Postal Worker Emeritus Jim Looney.

- Mountain Village decides against raising rent for Village Court Apartments

- TMVOA partners with Mountain Village for outdoor winter dining

- Telluride honors Ruth Bader Ginsburg