Position: Reporter

Email: [email protected]

Phone Number: 970-564-6034

About: Michael Maresh is the education, county and public lands reporter for the Journal. Maresh grew up in Phoenix Ariz., and graduated with a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in the late 1990s and has been a reporter for various newspapers for the last 15 years, most recently with the Rio Grande SUN in Española, N.M. which is 23 miles north of Santa Fe.
When not working, Maresh likes to run, hike, barbecue and is a sports fanatic to the fullest when it comes to football, basketball and baseball.
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Consignment shop opens doors

Two sisters are trying to fulfill a lifelong dream by operating a consignment business that the two opened on March 13.Kathy Wells and Roxanna Herrmann named their business Kwailty Konsignment and...

DATE: May 8, 2012 | CATEGORY: Business

Re-1 looking at cost-saving alternatives

Many families wanting to send their children to full-day kindergarten or having kids take college-level courses in the Montezuma-Cortez School District may have to pay extra money for these...

DATE: May 8, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

More than 300 come out for annual Native American walk

More than 300 people on Friday donned their walking shoes for the 11th annual Four Corners Walking Together For Healthier Nations in which Native American tribes converged onto the Four Corners...

DATE: May 8, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Re-1 has an extra year to improve

The Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 received some good news on Thursday from the Colorado Department of Education.Administrators, teachers, parents and the community were under the impression...

DATE: May 5, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hoping for the BEST grant

Not knowing if the Montezuma County School District Re-1 is going to receive more than $21 million from the 2012-13 Building Excellent Schools Today grant funds, its school board Tuesday night...

DATE: May 3, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

High gas prices impacting budgets

With gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon, local governments and school districts are also feeling the crunch caused by the high prices.The price of fuel resulted in the city of Cortez increasing...

DATE: May 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Teen Maze provides valuable lessons

Cortez Middle School students were among the hundreds of students in Southwestern Colorado who were told the importance of making the right choices and decisions as part of the 2012 Teen Maze held...

DATE: May 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Giving up the keys isn’t an easy decision

Age and health are factors for elderly drivers

DATE: April 28, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Accident victim speaks to M-CHS students

Drawing from his own personal experience, motivational speaker Tyler Presnell Monday afternoon offered a stark testimonial to Montezuma-Cortez High School students about the perils of driving...

DATE: April 26, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Keeping an eye out for alternative careers

Non-traditional job options open to female students

DATE: April 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

No plans for Calkins facility

The Calkins School Building at First and Beech Streets remains vacant and will probably remain unoccupied for some time, Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 officials are saying.The Calkins...

DATE: April 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

No obstacle (course) too big for students

Teen Challenge class creating project for the community

DATE: April 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

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