Author: Todd Michaels, Staff Writer
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School House Museum Open
Built in 1915 to replace the log school house which served the community from 1896 until it was destroyed by fire in 1914, the Little Red School has not always been red. It was white when the Red River Women’s Club decided it should be painted red in 1962. Red was a traditional color for…
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Sitzmark’s 1st Winter Ski Athlete Award
Meet 9-year old Gibson Smith, Sitzmark Sports & Lodging’s first recipient of their new “Sitzmark Sports Winter Ski Athlete Award!” Gibson started skiing on rentals from Sitzmark when he was just 2-years old, a full year before getting on his first bicycle! When he was a baby, his parents, Michael and Melissa Smith, noticed he…
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Edelweiss Accolades Well Deserved
Jonathan Howard is the Operations Director at Edelweiss Condominiums located at the corner of High Street and Mallette Road. He and his wife Shyloh have been the smiling faces at the front desk since 2017. Their time at the helm of the 24-unit complex has produced some interesting results worthy of note. Tripadvisor, which defines…
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Community Spirit: It’s About Caring
“We are so thankful that the Red River Brewing Company & Distillery has such a strong community outreach,” say Kimberly Ritterhouse, Administrator of the Red River Valley Charter School, “and always includes the Charter School when they pick an organization to give back to the community.” Ritterhouse is referring to the Hops For Happiness February…
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Coalition Plans For More Cleanup
The Red River Off-Road Coalition recently met, their first gathering since early 2020. The organization, which was formed in June 2018, has been granted status as a 501c3 not-for-profit organization. “We were resuming our normal meeting after COVID. We had postponed everything until things calmed down because we knew we couldn’t get a lot of…
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GEORGE WOERNDLE: SKIING WAY OF LIFE A FAMILY TRADITION
George Woerndle was living in Aspen, his birthplace, in 1955 when he began skiing at the age of two. His teacher was his father, Toni, an instructor at the Colorado resort and a member of the pre-war German Olympic ski team. To say that George learned the lessons of the day would be an understatement.…
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SARA NORA: SUNDANCE RESTAURANT A HOAG FAMILY TRADITION
For Sara Nora, the Sundance Mexican Restaurant, located just east of the corner of High Street and Copper King Trail, has been a part of her life as long as she can remember. Born in the high country that has been her home for the past 42 years, she is the daughter of restaurant founders…
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ALBERT FULLER: AT A&B AUTOMOTIVE
For Albert Fuller, his 50th year of earning a living as an automotive mechanic is cause for low key celebration. To commemorate the occasion, Al is looking at retirement and has considered putting a For Sale sign on the building that he’s occupied since 1988. “I like it here so I don’t think I’ll leave,”…
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ALYCE LINDBERG DENSOW: ALL I EVER WANTED TO DO WAS WRITE
Alyce Lindberg Densow finds it amusing that she lived the first 46 years of her life in Wisconsin. “As of August, I will have lived 46 years in Red River!” She also enjoys the fact that, in Sweden, the Lindberg name is pronounced Lindberry which means “A Tree On A Mountain.” “I’m Red River’s professional…
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MICHAEL CALHOUN: RED RIVER NEVER STOPPED BEING HOME
He was born at the original Holy Cross Hospital in Taos in 1967, and moved to Red River when he was two days old with his parents Ted and Beth Calhoun. “Does that still count,” Michael Calhoun asks, “as being born in Red River?” It does. The Calhoun name, as Michael likes to tell it,…