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Phone Number: (970) 564-6034

Deluge extends irrigation, boating season

Recent rains have bumped up the region to 104 percent of normal precipitation for the year, recharging the Dolores and extending the irrigation and boating season. But the area has a long way to go...

DATE: Sept. 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Deluxe tourism website planned

Mesa Verde Country, the region’s prominent visitor marketing service, has secured $60,000 in funding to revamp its web site, and the budget may reach up to $85,000 pending a grant application. On...

DATE: Sept. 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Uranium mill may be done in 2017

In October 2015, downstream the Dolores River into Montrose County, construction is expected to begin on the country’s first new uranium mill in 30 years. The Pinon Ridge Mill has cleared several...

DATE: Sept. 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

TDRs preserve water and agricultural land

Residents and Montezuma County commissioners currently are debating setbacks, but another part of the Dolores Valley Plan is commercial and residential density controls managed under a transferable...

DATE: Aug. 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

County considers relocating courts

Montezuma County and the 22nd Judicial District courts are trying to negotiate the best way forward for a temporary remodel of the county courthouse, with an eventual goal of a new justice center....

DATE: Aug. 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Virus returns to county

The Montezuma County Health Department has confirmed that at least one person in the county has contracted the West Nile virus this season. Director Lori Cooper reported that a state lab verified...

DATE: Aug. 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

TDRs preserve water, ag land

Residents and Montezuma County commissioners currently are debating setbacks, but another part of the Dolores Valley Plan is commercial and residential density controls managed under a transferable...

DATE: Aug. 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Dolores takes a hard look upstream

Dolores is drawing up a emergency action plan to handle potential pollution sources into the Dolores River. The watershed protection plan is a non-binding education effort designed to prevent risks...

DATE: Aug. 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Montezuma County has jurisdiction over toxic site

An illegal gold milling site near Mancos has raised the ire of Montezuma County officials who recently found out it falls within county jurisdiction. The Red Arrow Gold Corporation, operated by...

DATE: Aug. 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

County has jurisdiction over toxic site

An illegal gold milling site near Mancos has raised the ire of Montezuma County officials who recently found out it falls within county jurisdiction. The Red Arrow Gold Corporation, operated by...

DATE: Aug. 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Drowning in mud

SLICKROCK, Colo. — A flash flood on the Lower Dolores last week has biologists with Colorado Parks and wildlife concerned because unusually high levels of silt in the water caused a die-off of...

DATE: Aug. 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Vaccines required

An increase in whooping cough cases in Colorado and Arizona has local health officials on alert. “It hasn’t happened here, but we want to prevent any outbreaks, so immunizations are important as...

DATE: Aug. 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

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