Mancos High School’s small Class of 2018 spent its commencement on Friday reminiscing about the good times they’d had in school and looking to the future. Twenty-four graduates, many of whom had...

A new yarn and fabric collective will hold its grand opening in Cortez on Thursday. Southwest Farm to Yarn is made up of 31 sheep and alpaca owners, spinners, weavers, dyers and other craftspeople...

The Dolores School District Re-4A Board of Education voted to raise district teachers’ salaries for the 2018-2019 school year during a special meeting on May 24. Many of the district’s teachers,...

The Sleeping Ute Mountain Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution spent the days leading up to Memorial Day placing flags on the graves of veterans around Montezuma County. For about a...

The results are in from a fiber-to-the-home feasibility study that the city of Cortez has conducted since January. On Tuesday, Doug Dawson of CCG Consulting and Chris Konechne of Finley...

The city of Cortez has narrowed down its list of candidates for city manager to five, including the current Public Works director. On Wednesday, the city released the names of four finalists: John...

On Tuesday, the Cortez City Council gave Public Works Director Phil Johnson permission to seek a civil engineering consultant to oversee parts of the Main Street median project. In his presentation...

Cortez’s celebration of Historic Preservation Day on Saturday drew a bigger crowd than usual, as historians took people for a walk down memory lane. For the city’s ninth Preservation Day event,...

Kathie Butler, owner of the Nature Center at Butler Corner, plans to open a visitors center and weaving shop to make her property more guest-friendly. Butler has operated the Nature Center on her...

Five people were arrested last week on suspicion of drug trafficking in Cortez after a monthslong investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies. Cortez residents Lyndel and Sherri Clark, 64...