
Last week, the NBC television network featured important stories from Montrose, Colo., and Half Moon Bay, Calif. OK, it featured an important story from Montrose. Actually, the network smashed our annual big-pumpkin winner with a monster truck. I’ll leave it to you, the impartial viewer, to decide which was cooler.
Montrose Daily Press Publisher Steve Woody alerted me to the Today show broadcast that included a three-minute segment from Montrose. It’s part of a recurring series called “In Search of the American Character” that sends Tom Brokaw up and down U.S. Highway 50, which he calls “the backbone of America.” Montrose turns out to be Mile 2,107 on the way west to California.
The Daily Press responded wonderfully to the exposure and the interest it was sure to inspire locally. Staff produced a video for the newspaper Web site, showing Brokaw talking with local farmer Jeff Downs. Staff writer Katharhynn Heidelberg wrote a story about the encounter, including the fact that the television project will turn into a one-hour feature in January…

