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After 47 years of coaching the Dove Creek Bulldogs, Ken Soper can still be surprised.When the Bulldogs baseball season started, Soper was looking at a team that looked little to the previous...
DATE: May 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: High School Sports
THE HAT MAKER In a vanishing craft, Mancos man still specializes in making cowboy hats.
DATE: April 27, 2012 | CATEGORY: Living
Devin Fox gobbles up the sizzling groundball with unmerciful ease and whips the throw to first for the out.The senior shortstop is as polished as porcelain on the diamond. When hes not cleaning up...
DATE: March 31, 2012 | COLUMN: Dale Shrull
Diane Fox watched as the chemical concoction seeped into her body. Clinched and terrified, she waited and braced for the worse.What could be worse than what she’d already endured? After an...
DATE: March 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: Living
Its a sound as distinct as a doorbell.Its color is its trademark.Its name is legendary.Winn Westcott sat comfortably on the metal seat of his 1952 John Deere tractor as the recognizable...
DATE: March 20, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News
It’s quite a tree.Big, sprawling and robust — the magnificent tree at the Cortez Library is an impressive landmark.Officially, it’s a Globe Navajo Willow. With it’s sloped truck, it literally begs...
DATE: March 3, 2012 | CATEGORY: Living
DENVER Chance Randolph admitted he was nervous before his third-place match. The nerves may have bothered him early in the match, but by the end, the determined Dove Creek freshman had himself a...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: High School Sports
DENVER It was a struggle. But Wyatt Wade still brought home a fourth-place medal from the Class 2A State Wrestling Tournament.After his final match on Saturday at the Pepsi Center, Wade echoed a...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: High School Sports
DENVER — The clock can be an evil conspirator in wrestling.The clock has no heart.Ryan Daves has heart.It came down to 10 seconds — 10 seconds to fourth or 10 seconds to third.Fourth place at the...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: High School Sports
GRAND JUNCTION — Cole Baughman was called for stalling. And he didn’t like it.The one point in the 120-pound regional final cut the Dove Creek junior’s lead to 4-1. It was the only point he’d give...
DATE: Feb. 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: High School Sports
The faces, the eyes, the words all tell stories of sadness, desperation, gloom, melancholy, some drifting into despair, while others beam with hope.Its obvious that hope is an empty tank for...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2012 | COLUMN: Dale Shrull
A torrent of brilliant sunshine floods the park as a yellow Labrador bounds after a tennis ball. The rambunctious retriever hones in on his prey and snatches it up with his mouth, gleefully...
DATE: Jan. 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News
