Escalante Days and Nights kicks off Friday

The 40th annual Escalante Days Celebration kicks off this weekend in Dolores. Activities run from Friday, Aug. 12 to Sunday, Aug. 14, when the softball tournament finishes. The main events –...

DATE: Aug. 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dolores starts school August 16

Dolores seemingly will fill up again with students and teachers as the school year starts on Tuesday, Aug. 16. An open house on campus will take place for students and teachers on Monday, Aug. 15...

DATE: Aug. 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dolores proposes extending ban on pot stores

The Dolores Town Board voted 4-2 Monday on a proposed ordinance that would extend a ban on retail marijuana businesses for an additional two years. The proposed ordinance must still go through a...

DATE: Aug. 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Abert’s squirrel thriving in San Juan National Forest

An adorable gray and white squirrel with distinct ear tufts has become the wildlife mascot of the Ponderosa pine forests above Dolores. Hikers and bikers in the Boggy Draw area are more and more...

DATE: Aug. 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Fire restrictions lifted on San Juan National Forest

Fire restrictions on the San Juan National Forest will be lifted today, Aug. 8, thanks to widespread monsoonal moisture. This year’s Stage 1 fire restrictions, which went into effect on July 1,...

DATE: Aug. 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Community Calendar

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DATE: Aug. 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Community Calendar

Shawn Gregory wins at Telluride 100

Shawn Gregory brought home a first-place finish at the third annual Telluride 100 Mountain Bike Race. Riding in the 40-and-over men’s division on Saturday, July 23, the Dolores resident finished...

DATE: Aug. 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: More Sports

The times were lively, and life was grand in 1909

Editor’s note: S. H. Phlegar, Dolores, wrote this story in 1934 about events in Montezuma Valley in 1909. Twenty-five years ago at Lebanon in the Montezuma Valley – well, those were the best days...

DATE: Aug. 3, 2016 | COLUMN: Looking back

New yoga studio lifts off in Dolores

The Journal Alana Connelly, owner of The Yoga House in Dolores, wants to bring yoga back to its traditional roots as an everyday therapy for regular people. “Yoga has become very commercialized,...

DATE: Aug. 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dolores librarian retires, but starts a ranch nature center

Twelve years ago, Dolores local Kathie Butler retired from a 31-year career as an elementary school teacher, mostly spent in the Mancos school district. But that was not satisfying enough, so she...

DATE: Aug. 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

The 406 Project wraps up baseball camp

Joe Rowell Park was swarming with action last Thursday evening, as over 50 local youths were put through drills and later scrimmaged to conclude The 406 Project’s summer baseball camp, which was...

DATE: July 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: More Sports

Bri Suckla, Stormi Pitman and Kody Gregory return from the National High School Rodeo Finals

Bri Suckla, Stormi Pitman and Kody Gregory have returned from the National High School Rodeo Finals in Gillette, Wyoming. The NHSFR, which claims to be the world’s largest rodeo featuring...

DATE: July 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: More Sports

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