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• Norwood Death Under Investigation
• Telluride Talks Parking, Again
• Lawmakers Work on the Budget

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Norwood Death Under Investigation

Norwood lost a member of its community this weekend.

According to the San Miguel County Coroner’s Office, Timothy Workman died early Sunday morning from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. He was 55.

“Dispatch received a call around 1 a.m. on Sunday. Deputies responded the report of a deceased male,” said San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Susan Lilly.

The report was to a county road roughly 18 miles south of Norwood, past Miramonte Reservoir.

“Upon arrival, the deputies did locate the individual and his death was confirmed at the scene,” Lilly said.

Lilly said that, per Sheriff’s Office protocol, the scene is being treated as a crime scene. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is leading the ongoing investigation.

“We have a very good working relationship with the CBI. They have more forensic resources, so it makes sense for us to coordinate with them,” Lilly said.

An autopsy was performed Monday. A final determination is expected to take several weeks.

The Sheriff’s Office said there is no threat to the public.

According to the Coroner’s Office, Workman loved living in Norwood, his home for the past 10 years. As a younger man, Workman attended West Point, worked in Afghanistan and was a DEA agent.

Workman is survived by his mother, Betty; his brothers, Cory and Steven; his children, Harley, Tristan, Tanner and Cheyenne; and his wife, Joan.

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Telluride Talks Parking, Again

One of Telluride’s most talked-about topics came to a resolution — at least for this year: angled parking.

Last week, Telluride Town Council voted to eliminate angled parking for the summer.

“We had a parking study in 2024, and one of the key findings was to maximize supply of parking within existing right of way, before adding new infrastructure,” said Telluride Communications Manager Lindsey Mills.

Following that study, in 2025 Town Council initiated several changes to parking, including expanding metered parking zones, updating wayfinding and creating angled parking on two blocks of Main Street, from Aspen to Davis.

That shift was not welcomed by a number of community members, particularly those who live in the neighborhood.

The decision to eliminate angled parking came after a year of public comment and the most engaged public survey in the town’s history.

More than 700 members of the regional community weighed in. The overall sentiment was mixed.

“44% saying they don’t like it – as the majority. 41% saying they do like. 9% makes no difference for them. 6% aren’t sure, or they need more information and would like to learn more,” Mills said.

Mills said many who opposed angled parking cited safety concerns, saying it feels less safe than parallel parking.

She added that, according to the Telluride Marshal’s Department, there were no accidents as a result of the angled parking.

While survey results were split, those who spoke at Town Council last week were unanimously opposed.

“The one metric you haven’t talked about is that virtually everybody who lives in those two blocks, all the property owners, don’t want this. I think that should be a heavily weighted factor,” said Mark Frankmann.

Frankmann also raised concerns about safety, cost and underutilization of parking in the Silverjack garage.

“My home, and many other homes along block 400 and 500 are historical homes, who add to the historic residential district. You have in your packets how the parking obscures all of our homes so that the tourists coming into town can’t even see the beautiful homes we have along Colorado Avenue because of all the parking,” said Susan Dalton, who lives on one of the affected blocks.

With a relatively split town, Town Council members were also divided.

“Personally, I prefer the angled parking and how it helps the businesses. If we just did what people wanted in their neighborhood we’d get zero accomplished in this town because – whether you like it or not, we’re a NIMBY community, and we see it everywhere. But unfortunately, I’m going to eliminate. To lose diagonal parking,” said Mayor Teddy Errico.

Errico said his decision was based on what he described as a poor rollout last year and a lack of concrete data on how angled parking benefits the town.

In the end, three council members supported returning to parallel parking, two supported keeping angled parking and one expressed mixed views.

After about two hours of discussion, Town Council directed staff to keep parallel parking on Main Street between Aspen and Davis.

Angled parking will remain in other parts of town, and officials said they will continue to review parking in Telluride — meaning angled parking could return next year.

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Lawmakers Work on the Budget

Bills are heading to Governor Jerad Polis’ desk and lawmakers are trying to balance the budget. This week on Capitol Conversation, statehouse reporter Lucas Brady Woods shares the latest.

Story beings at 6:15.

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Coffee and Climate Conversation Highlights Forests Challenges

Forests are living, breathing systems. This week, local environmental organizations are paying homage to their importance.

EcoAction Partners, Sheep Mountain Alliance and the San Miguel Watershed Coalition are coming together to host a “Coffee and Climate Conversation: An Ode to our Forests” event.

The discussion will explore the challenges forests face from climate stress, wildfire risk, pests and drought. It will also highlight practical actions community members can take to help protect them.

Participants are encouraged to bring a favorite poem or literary passage to share.

The event will take place at the Wilkinson Public Library on Thursday, Feb. 26, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Tea and pastries will be provided.

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Film Series Concludes with ‘Earth to Michael’

The final film in the Telluride Film Festival’s “Global, Urgent Cinema” series will screen this week.

“Earth to Michael” is a 2025 documentary by Nico López-Alegría and ZZ.

When director Nico López-Alegría was a child, his father — astronaut Michael López-Alegría — left for space. Upon his return, the family struggled to reconnect. Years later, as his father prepared for another mission, Nico set out to reconcile the past and navigate their relationship.

The Telluride Film Festival said the documentary offers an intimate portrait of distance and return, ambition and absence, and connection.

The film series is a collaboration with the Wilkinson Public Library and showcases films that respond to urgent social and cultural realities.

The screening of “Earth to Michael” will take place at the Wilkinson Public Library on Thursday, March 26. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the film begins at 5:30 p.m.

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Bears Ears Resource Management Plan Could be Utah Lawmakers’ Next Target Using Congressional Review Act

Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah could be the next monument to have its resource management plan overturned by Congress using the Congressional Review Act.

Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s Caroline Llanes reports staffers from Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy’s office attended a public lands council meeting in Emery County on March 3 — the day before Utah lawmakers introduced a resolution to overturn Grand Staircase-Escalante’s plan under the act.

District Director HD Sanderson told council members that while a vote on Grand Staircase-Escalante’s plan had not yet taken place:

“The congressman is also in talks with San Juan County to do a similar CRA for Bear’s Ears. So potentially to roll back the size of the monument and, and shrink it down. Those are still in the early stages of those discussions, but it would be a similar process to what’s happening to Grand Staircase right now”, Sanderson said.

Another staffer told the council it would likely be difficult to “pull off” a similar effort for Bears Ears this year.

The Bears Ears resource management plan was finalized in 2025 as part of a co-stewardship agreement with the Bears Ears Commission, a group representing five tribal nations.

Traditional Indigenous knowledge guides much of the plan.

“That means tribal priorities are guiding how the monument is managed… it wasn’t about checking boxes, it was about setting the conditions for long-term tribal-informed care of the landscape,” said Anthony Sanchez Jr. of Zuni Pueblo, co-chair of the Bears Ears Commission, in a February interview.

It is unclear how overturning the plan would affect the intergovernmental agreement between the tribes and the U.S. government.

Kennedy’s office has not responded to a request for comment.