MT - Columnists

I remember a brown Christmas and it didn’t snow until February 20. Nonetheless it was still a wet summer. In the early days of Mancos, doctors kept coming and going.Dr. R. G. Werner came in 1899...

The Mancos Valley Chamber of Commerce has lots of projects that come up in the fall. Most recently the mini-grant applications were due Nov. 1. Now the Citizen of the Year Nomination is due Dec. 1....

Did you know that reference librarians in the nation’s public and academic libraries answer nearly eight million questions weekly. Standing single file, the line of questioners would stretch from...

The Library has been transformed into a quilt museum! Stop by and view the many and varied, but all beautiful quilts. Why, you may ask, has this happened? Well, let me tell you it is not just...

While tourists are not coming into the Visitor Center in great numbers the VC is still a busy place. Denise Rentz of RE/MAX Mesa Verde Realty stopped by with applications for the Giving Tree. Folks...

What is SAID in the hot tub, STAYS in the hot tub!Five friends and I spent an afternoon in a natural hot springs nearby recently. The six of us have been friends for a while and know each other...

I owe an apology to Tom Weaver and Glen Humiston for saying the town paid for their water back in 2002 when we were experiencing an extra dry year. They gave the water to the town for six weeks and...

At the monthly Mesa Verde Country partners meeting this month, Lynn Dyer reported that the National Parks in Colorado reported a definite down-turn in the numbers for the summer season, and that...

Recently I had someone ask, “What happened to the early settlers if they got sick in Mancos?” It wasn’t until 1879 that a doctor arrived so people in the Mancos Valley relied on midwives or home...

BOOOOOOO! And Happy Halloween! Here are some fun facts about this day:The first Jack O’Lanterns were actually made from turnips.Halloween is the second highest grossing commercial holiday after...

The Romney campaign ad says Obama’s policies are a $4,000 tax hike on the middle class. But their evidence is a study from the American Enterprise Institute that looks at public debt. The campaign...