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Hi and hello! Cassie here with your daily newsletter. Halloween is this weekend and I'm personally pretty excited. It's probably my favorite holiday of the year (barring Día de los Muertos). I love the spooky season and everything that comes with it: the movies (both scary movies and classics like Practical Magic and Addams Family), the food and drinks, the weather and the décor are just the perfect mashup to me! Did you know "guising" was first recorded in North America in 1911? A Canadian newspaper reported on American children disguising in costume as they roamed their neighborhoods for coins and foods. The practice didn't really pick up steam until 1930, though. Are you dressing up this year? Share a photo with us and it may be featured in next weeks' newsletters! The Ute Museum is featuring Gregg Deal: The Ute Museum recently opened a new art exhibit featuring the work of Gregg Deal, from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe). Deal is a contemporary artist and activist focused on indigenous identity through a pop culture lens. Deal's new exhibit, "Merciless Indian Savages," is an Indigenous exploration of what American democracy means for Indian Country and will be up through January 2022. The COVID situation in Montrose is only getting worse: Montrose Regional Hospital is busier than ever, reaching capacity almost daily now. The county's positivity rate has jumped drastically from the September 27 COVID roundup we published in which the positivity rate was 6.09%. At the time, that was a 24.79% increase from the week prior. The significant increase reflects the spike in weekly COVID positive cases as well. As of today, Montrose County has 237 new confirmed cases in the past week. Today in history: In 1904, the New York subway opened! "At 7 p.m. that evening, the subway opened to the general public, and more than 100,000 people paid a nickel each to take their first ride under Manhattan. IRT service expanded to the Bronx in 1905, to Brooklyn in 1908 and to Queens in 1915. Since 1968, the subway has been controlled by the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA). The system now has 26 lines and 472 stations in operation. The longest line, the 8th Avenue "A" Express train, stretches more than 32 miles, from the northern tip of Manhattan to the far southeast corner of Queens." QUICK LINKS Listen to our podcast Montrose Fresh, it's available everywhere podcasts are found including Apple, Pandora, Spotify and Amazon Music Remember those we've lost in our obituaries section View the letter to the editor. If you would like to submit a letter please email: editor@montrosepress.com Get today's weather forecast Check out our classifieds and explore the MDP e-editions Already a subscriber, but need to activate your digital account? Click here to create an account or call our office at 970-249-3444 and we'll get you all set u

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