Position: Reporter

Email: [email protected]

Phone Number: 970-564-6033

About: Luke Groskopf joined the Cortez Journal in November 2012 as a reporter covering the county and education beats. Luke grew up in Wisconsin and migrated to Southwest Colorado with his family in 2001. He graduated from Wheaton College in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in International Relations, envisioning a career at diplomatic posts overseas. Instead, he ended up back home in Durango, where he interned at the Durango Herald for six months before transferring to Cortez. He likes telling the stories of a town and its people via journalism. Luke is a travel bug who doesn't mind wandering aimlessly; if he can't physically go places he settles for reading about them. In his spare time he enjoys soccer, skiing, documentaries, cooking with mixed results and exploring the mountain bike trails around Cortez. Read More

Mountain lion on the prowl?

The Cortez Police Department is warning city residents to be cautious and watchful after finding evidence of a possible mountain lion attack in the city limits. An half-eaten deer carcass was...

DATE: March 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tourism seeks cash infusion

As Oliver Twist once put it, "Please, sir, I want some more." Tourism officials came, cap-in-hand, before the Board of County Commissioners on Monday. Only instead of gruel, they were petitioning...

DATE: March 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

New resale shop comes to town

From wedding dresses and veils to sinks and cabinetry, the blue corrugated building that once housed Bridal Mart, near the intersection of Highway 491/160 and Road G, is poised to reopen as Habitat...

DATE: March 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Very busy week for Re-1 students

Standardized tests. The words are enough to make most students' eyes glaze over. But, like death and taxes, standardized tests are now an unavoidable part of life - an obligatory nuisance to...

DATE: March 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Water levels remain low

When a wildfire suddenly broke out last Friday in Lory State Park, west of Fort Collins, Coloradans breathed an anxious, collective sigh: not again.The early season blaze stirred unpleasant...

DATE: March 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

That's a wrap for 2013 Ag Expo

Against a colorful backdrop of farm machinery - orange Kubotas, blue New Hollands, yellow Caterpillars and green John Deeres - thousands of visitors ambled about the Montezuma County Fairgrounds...

DATE: March 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Water levels remain low

When a wildfire suddenly broke out last Friday in Lory State Park, west of Fort Collins, Coloradans breathed an anxious, collective sigh: not again.The early season blaze stirred unpleasant...

DATE: March 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Disaster drill prepares responders

None of it was real - there was no pipeline explosion, no gaping crater in the ground, no casualties. But they did their best to act like it was. Law enforcement, fire districts, oil and gas...

DATE: March 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Boggy-Glade appeals denied

They marched in protest, leveled accusations of impropriety, lamented the loss of long-held recreational hobbies and, as a last resort, they filed letters of appeal. But it was all for naught....

DATE: March 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Don't waste the waste

The Montezuma County Board of Commissioners and Cortez Sanitation District struck an intergovernmental agreement this week to let the county landfill handle and process biosolids into compost,...

DATE: March 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Boggy-Glade appeals denied

They marched in protest, leveled accusations of impropriety, lamented the loss of long-held recreational hobbies and, as a last resort, they filed letters of appeal. But it was all for naught....

DATE: March 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Good time for gifts

Cortez is replete with stores selling handcrafted wares that tell the story of the Four Corners and its inhabitants.The grandeur of Mesa Verde National Park is normally the hook that lures tourists...

DATE: March 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

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