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Cortez students are able to fly-fish, lift weights, light up the theater stage and get some extra learning help via an ongoing grant through the Colorado Department of Education. Four public...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
You've seen them. The collapsing warehouses. The debris-strewn fields. The empty M&M Truck Stop straight out of some apocalyptic Stephen King novel.The city outskirts are marred by a handful of...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Mesa Verde National Park could see more than $300,000 cut from the rest of its 2012-13 fiscal year budget if Congress doesn't reach a deficit reduction compromise by March 1. According to a memo...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe caused a stir last Wednesday when he announced, at a press conference, that the U.S. Postal Service would stop Saturday delivery of letters, bills and...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
The evening was full of pomp and circumstance, but the morning hours of the Southwestern Colorado Livestock Association's annual gathering on Saturday were marked by some serious agriculture policy...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
When Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 announced it was putting $1.89 million in general obligation bonds up for sale last week, officials hoped some of them would go to locals. As it turns...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
The seven-member board that oversees schools in Dolores County voted to allow the Dove Creek High School principal and district superintendent to carry firearms onto school grounds at a Wednesday...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
If you have a bone to pick, a problem to raise or a question to ask, county government wants to hear it. The Montezuma County Board of Commissioners, as of this week, is setting aside a 15-minute...
DATE: Feb. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
One out of every three students at Montezuma-Cortez High School did not graduate on time last year, according to the Colorado Department of Education. Sixty-five percent of the Class of 2012 -...
DATE: Feb. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Agriculture is king in Montezuma County. And the people making a living doing it are getting a bad deal. That's the assessment of Ken Meter, a food systems analyst and president of Crossroads...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Colorado continues to lag behind the national average in per pupil education funding, according to updated figures released last month.The numbers aren't current - they are based on 2009-10 data -...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Luxury condominiums? Nowhere to be seen. A five-star restaurant? Missing in action. Boisterous tourist hoards calling to one another in foreign tongues or a southern twang? Unlikely to find them...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Living
