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Critics of Section 753 of the budget bill claimed that it "requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as...

DATE: April 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Ah, springtime! Lots of art to enjoy!

6th ANNUAL FOUR CORNERS INDIAN MARKETCelebrate the artistic traditions of the native cultures of our area. Meet artists representing over a dozen Southwest tribes and Pueblo nations. Master...

DATE: April 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Good fortune finds Mancos library

Local residents Patsy and Kenny Smith recently turned their good luck into fortune at the Monsanto Annual Consultant Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 6-8, 2013. Entered into a drawing...

DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Railroad in Mancos has rich, smelly history

When the Rio Grande Southern Railroad was completed through Mancos in 1891, the section house was the lone building still sitting in the Noland pasture. The depot was a revamped barn just to the...

DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Virtue vs. impurity

The moral excellence evident in my life as I consistently do what is right. The nineteenth-century writer J. G. Holland once said, "Reputation and character are widely different things. Character...

DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Happy to be here

Hello Mancos. My name is Shannon Livick and I will be the editor of the Mancos Times, starting this week. Some of you may know me, some of you may not. I grew up in the area, going to school in...

DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

A sad start to a busy legislative week

Last week brought life in the legislature face to face with the real world on a couple of different fronts. We began the week with two funerals, one for Tom Clements, the head of Colorado's...

DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Herstory - Addie Melvina Billings

Billings was born in Pecotonica, Ill. on Jan. 4, 1858, and began teaching school at sixteen while still taking classes at Iowa State Normal School. In 1880, she married Elmore M. Billings,...

DATE: Jan. 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Herstory - Ellis Reynolds Shipp

"I do not wish to make too many resolutions lest I shall not be enabled to execute them, but I believe it is better to make them and break them than do nothing."Shipp was born Jan. 20, 1872, in...

DATE: Jan. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Taking care of our own backyard

We live in a magical place in a not-so-magical time. Those who are born and live their lives under western skies accept the wide open expanses of land as the norm. Those who travel here from...

DATE: Dec. 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Orderliness vs. Confusion

Orderliness - arranging myself and my surroundings to achieve greater efficiency.Orderliness is analyzing a situation to identify its guiding purpose, organizing all relevant elements according to...

DATE: Dec. 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

Sign your name!

For those of you who don’t want to put a name to your letter, either to the Mancos Times post office box or to the Mancos Times office at 135 Grand Ave., please know that anonymous letters don’t...

DATE: Dec. 3, 2012 | CATEGORY: MT - Opinion

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