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There’s more to life than self-survival

Two men were sitting at the table behind us having a rather loud, but friendly, conversation. It wasn’t difficult to hear them and we weren’t focused on listening to the conversation, until I heard...

DATE: Oct. 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Please support me for school board

I am a candidate for the Dolores Re-4A School District Board. My family has lived in Dolores for four generations. My husband and I have four grown children and five grandchildren. My background...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Come out for our trails (and a burger)

As most everyone knows, there are amazing outdoor recreational opportunities that exist out our back doors, for hunting, fishing, and thousands of acres of public lands that include hundreds of...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Trump’s the hardest-working president

Once again, Democrats are wasting taxpayer dollars with yet another pointless witch hunt against President Trump. Congress gets paid good money to work on legislation like new immigration laws and...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Please, please heed the highway signs

Highway 491 has several areas that have “No Passing On Shoulder” signs and yet I have seen this happen many times. I travel back and forth both north and south on this highway and have personally...

DATE: Sept. 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This is no time to bring more wolves

In the last several weeks, there have at least two wild animal-human confrontations in Colorado, resulting in serious injuries to a 9-year-old boy in one case. In May this year, a story coming out...

DATE: Sept. 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Open carry was not ‘well regulated’

Congratulations to the national retailers that will no longer welcome into their stores folks who openly brandish guns. Three of our local stores are affected by this decision and I welcome it....

DATE: Sept. 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Firearm training must include firearms

As a nation unique to the human experience, the United States was blessed with men who were gifted with a knowledge of the classics and the history of nations to that point; a history which, sadly,...

DATE: Sept. 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

232 years ago this week, it happened

They are only 52 words, but I actually get chills when I read them: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,...

DATE: Sept. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

We need a clean-up at Cascade Creek

A tractor-trailer overturned and burned on the evening of Aug. 22nd on Highway 550 at the hairpin turn over Cascade Creek. The fire department and hazmat teams responded quickly to put out the fire...

DATE: Sept. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Need to publicly support conservatives

Why is the left (“the bastion of tolerance”!) so intolerant of opinions that differ from theirs, and so afraid to let other opinions be heard? It seems to me that if you’re afraid to let different...

DATE: Sept. 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Why won’t county share its elevator?

I went to our Montezuma County courthouse last Tuesday, to attend the commissioners meeting. When I entered the building, I saw a sign indicating where the stairs are for the second floor. I am...

DATE: Sept. 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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