Jim Duncan is enjoying his retirement from stressful city policing as the new part-time deputy marshal in Ridgway after a nearly 40-year career in law enforcement.

He and his wife moved to Montrose to retire two and a half years ago, but as someone who had grown accustomed to the fast pace of policing in the Denver metro area, he soon found himself bored in retirement.

“I worked as a law enforcement officer somewhere in the state of Colorado for just short of 40 years, got bored in retirement a...