Shannon Livick

Position: Dolores Star Editor

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Good news came to those in Rico late Tuesday when they learned that the Rico Post Office was no longer on the chopping block.Word came that after a months-long period in which the Rico Post Office...

DATE: Nov. 26, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Three businesses under one roof

Where do you go if you need a haircut, a custom paint job and a snowmobile?Well, in the past, you had to go to three very different, very far away places. But rest assured, that is no longer the...

DATE: Nov. 22, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business

McPhee changed everything

Legend has it that when President Teddy Roosevelt first saw the picturesque Dolores River Canyon just outside the town of Dolores while on a hunting trip in 1906, he proclaimed it a perfect spot...

DATE: Nov. 11, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Rico expects post office to close

Rico residents learned last week that their small post office likely will close.Residents will still get their mail delivered to Rico, and their addresses and zip code will remain the same. But no...

DATE: Nov. 8, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Incumbents win Dolores school board seats

Voters in the Dolores Re-4 School District overwhelmingly re-elected school board incumbents Jon Kelly and Vangi McCoy. Kelly received 650 votes, while McCoy received 513. Both will serve a...

DATE: Nov. 1, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez Farmers Market has many faces

‘Image Harvest’ show opens at Sideshow Gallery

DATE: Oct. 22, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Soaring with Pride

Ken Hazen will be the first to tell you that he isn’t a hero.“I am not a hero. The heroes are dead and buried,” he said in his Rico home, while looking at a photo of himself taken after enlisting...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2011 | CATEGORY: Living

Rico wants post office

Upstairs in the courthouse in Rico, about 50 Rico residents gathered to hear from representatives of the U.S. Postal Service about a discontinuance study of the Rico Post Office Wednesday night.To...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

A rose is a rose Desert Rose flower shop calls Karla’s Kitchen new home

Yvonne Lopez lights up when she talks about flowers.They have been her life for eight years. She owns Desert Rose Flowers. Her flowers now have a new location, Karla’s Kitchen.“I just love to make...

DATE: Sept. 27, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business

Going Pro Professional cyclist Lauren Hall calls Dolores home

They call her the bullet.Lauren Hall, a Mississippi native, who now calls Dolores home, is known as “the bullet” in the cycling world.As a professional cyclist, Hall said she couldn’t have a better...

DATE: Sept. 24, 2011 | CATEGORY: Living

Postal Service delivers bad news to Rico

When Rico residents wandered into the small post office in their town Monday, they received news that some of them didn’t like.Inside their post office boxes was a letter from the U.S. Postal...

DATE: Sept. 16, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bears cause double trouble

Two bears were trapped recently in different areas outside Dolores.The first bear was trapped near Dunton on Tuesday, said Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer Dave Harper.The bear had wandered into...

DATE: Aug. 13, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

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