Breezy Obletz has opened Main Street Emporium in Cortez. The shop is offering gifts, clothing, jewelry, home decor and other items. Obletz primarily stocks items that are locally or organically...

Doug Walker was retained as judge of the 22nd Judicial District by a vote of 6,812 to 4,369, or 61 percent of the vote. Walker had received a unanimous recommendation from the nine-member 22nd...

Voters on Tuesday approved a Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 school district request for permission to spend up to $1.8 million toward demolition of the old high school on W. Seventh Street. The vote was...

Mancos on Tuesday approved a levy to help fund library costs. The vote on Mancos 4A was 1,207 to 630, with 65.7 percent of voters approving the levy. Library Director Lee Hallberg said he...

After four attempts, the Mancos Common Press has finally been awarded a grant to restore the building that houses its prized Cranston Press. The $89,000 grant from the Colorado State Historical...

Audiences will be transported back in time and to outer space with Montezuma-Cortez High School drama department’s production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” this month. The M-CHS version of the...

Montezuma-Cortez High School nurse Sue Ciccia has been given a top award from the Colorado Association of School Nurses. Ciccia was awarded the group’s School Nurse Administrator of the Year honor,...

Midas Auto Service has opened at 244 E. Main St. in Cortez. The business is a full-service auto maintenance shop, offering everything from oil changes to tire installations, owner Cody Dennison...

Fourteen Mancos elementary schoolers are helping design a new playground on the school’s campus. The Re-6 District will pursue a $110,000 Great Outdoors Colorado grant in hopes of building the...

Mancos Re-6 Superintendent Brian Hanson said the district is having trouble finding substitute teachers. “We are struggling to fill classrooms with subs,” he told school board members at an Oct. 24...

Spectators at can expect an uplifting and funny underdog story during Cortez Middle School’s production of the musical “Adventures of a Comic Book Artist” this weekend. Performances are Friday,...