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Good afternoon, Montrose! One of today's biggest pop stars, Harry Styles, just released a new album today. I found about it when I logged onto Twitter this morning and saw a link to this wholesome interview from NPR.
As I was bopping along to the album while putting together this newsletter, I started thinking about how our consumption of music has radically changed just in my lifetime — and I'm in my early 20s.
I'm old enough to remember burning CDs into iTunes and transferring songs to my iPod Shuffle, but I've been a subscriber to Spotify since early in high school. I have a Dolly Parton CD in my car that I turn on whenever I don't feel like dealing with the bluetooth setup, but I stream 99 percent of the music I listen to.
With Spotify, we (the consumers) pay the price to rent millions of songs whenever we want, but we don't actually own any of the music we're listening to like all of those Coldplay albums on my iPod.
It's crazy to think about how over the past few hundred years, our music consumption has transformed from localized tunes often sung/listened to with others to an exponentially growing collection that we more often listen to by ourselves. And people are still writing new songs every day!
What's going to be the soundtrack to your weekend? I'll make a playlist if I get enough responses!
The latest on the Simms Fire: My colleague Katharhynn Heidelberg has been keeping tabs on the fire burning near the boarder between Montrose and Ouray County. Hopefully, the chilly weather and rain we've been getting all afternoon helps out the firefighters!
As far as we know, 3 structures have been destroyed in the fire but we haven't heard of any injuries or deaths. Check montrosepress.com for the latest news.
Summer projects at school: Students and teachers throughout Montrose County School District are probably looking forward to the last day of school next Friday. But so is the district's facilities director because big projects — as well as routine maintenance — can finally get going when everybody else is out of the building!
What's going on at Colorado Outdoors? Speaking of major construction projects, my colleague Josue Perez penned this update on progress — and delays — at one of the biggest new developments in town.
There's just one business so far that's inside the Flex Buildings (Montrose Anglers) but Trattoria di Sofia is expected to open at their new location soon. Secret Creek, formerly known as Colorado Yurt Company, will probably be done moving into the new 30,000 square foot manufacturing and office space in a little over a month.
I don't want to give everything away, so check out Josue's story here. And keep an eye out for other stories about the development coming soon!
Heart-warming story going into the weekend: 32 years and 62 million stitches later, over 150 volunteers have finished most of the needlepoint pew cushions for a church in Oregon.
This is beautiful to me for so many reasons: I like to do needlework myself — I started right before the pandemic after my grandma gifted me a hand-stitched Christmas tree skirt — so I know how much work and effort goes into every single stitch. But I feel like most needlework projects, at least all of the ones that I've worked on so far, have been individual, so it's really cool to see so many people contribute to a single goal.
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