Dolores district votes to officially combine middle and high schools

The Dolores Re-4A School District voted Jan. 11 to officially consolidate the Dolores Middle School and Dolores High School into a Dolores Secondary School. The Colorado Department of Education...

DATE: Jan. 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Best-selling outdoors author will speak in Dolores

On Jan. 19, best-selling author Kevin Fedarko will share his experiences hiking 800 miles through the Grand Canyon during the River Permit Party, sponsored by the Dolores River Boating Advocates ....

DATE: Jan. 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Catlin brings ‘momentum’ to House 58 seat

Republican Marc Catlin is running to keep his 58th District House of Representative seat in the Colorado Legislature. The district includes Montezuma, Dolores, San Miguel and Montrose counties....

DATE: Jan. 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Lady Bears impressive in victory over Mancos

Fresh off a week of practices dominated by shooting drills, the Dolores High School girls basketball team’s shots consistently found the bottom of the net throughout a 51-30 road victory over...

DATE: Jan. 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Bears beat Bluejays in overtime classic

Fifteen minutes after his team defeated Mancos 73-66 in overtime on Jan. 9, Dolores High School head coach Larry Schwartz was still dripping with sweat and out of breath. Attempting to put into...

DATE: Jan. 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Dolores Town Board gets OK to remove playground structure

The Town of Dolores has received final approval from Great Outdoors Colorado to remove playground equipment in Joe Rowell Park. The organization helped pay for the structure through a $100,000...

DATE: Jan. 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Watters chosen to serve on Dolores Town Board

Melissa Watters was appointed to the Dolores Town Board on Monday. She fills a seat vacated by Trever Ince, who recently resigned. Watters has lived in Dolores for 6½ years and has been a teacher...

DATE: Jan. 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

McPhee managers plan to open lake early

McPhee Reservoir and San Juan National Forest officials are proposing to open the McPhee boat ramp two weeks earlier in mid-April for the 2018 motorized boating season. But in order to do so, the...

DATE: Jan. 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

San Juan Forest plans to close gates in Dolores, Mancos areas

The Journal The San Juan National Forest announced Tuesday that with snowfall in the forecast, the forest will close some gates soon in the Dolores District, including the Boggy Draw, Haycamp Mesa,...

DATE: Jan. 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

River permit party Jan. 19

The fifth annual Dolores River Boating Advocates permit party will be on Jan 19 at the Dolores Community Center from 6-10 p.m. Kevin Fedarko, bestselling author of the “Emerald Mile,” will be the...

DATE: Jan. 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Update: Victim in Haycamp slaying is identified

The body of a man believed to have been murdered was found Thursday morning in the Haycamp Mesa area of the San Juan National Forest, according to Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin. The victim...

DATE: Jan. 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Life in Big Bend and the young Cortez in 1885

I was born in Kansas in the Indian Territory in 1870. About five years of age, I came with my family to Colorado, where we lived for a short time. When I was fifteen years, old Dad got his wagon...

DATE: Jan. 2, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back

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