Cortez
Education
Kiva starts school year in new downtown location
The Children’s Kiva Montessori School has rapidly transformed its space at 25 N. Beech St. from a warehouse into an open-floor plan schoolhouse, only months after gaining a conditional-use permit…
Education
State to re-examine Native mascots
Protesters at Buckley Park joined protesters in gatherings around the nation in November to speak out against the use of “Redskins” as a mascot by the NFL team in Washington,…
Local News
Copycat bears
Three bear cubs climb a tree Thursday evening at Nancy Horton’s River Ranch, north of Bayfield. A fourth bear cub on the left side of the tree is a sculpture…
Local News
Spill cost tribe at least $200K, Southern Utes say
Frost: EPA ‘never lifted a finger’ to alert tribe
High School Sports
The Archer
Jayden Karo, a seventh-grader at Dolores Middle School, is the 2015 Reserve Grand Champion in the Junior Compound Unlimited class at the 2015 Colorado State Fair after shooting a 185…
High School Sports
Montezuma-Cortez soccer team starts 1-2
‘Jitters were coming out for sure,’ coach says
For the record
Police blotter
Thursday, Aug. 27 8:12 a.m. A woman reported receiving threatening Facebook messages. A woman was ticketed for harassment and menacing. 1:15 p.m. Police responded to Walmart for a shoplifter. No…
Milestones
Wedding Kasey Bell and Taryn Susann Davis
Kasey Bell, son of Scott and Patti Bell of Cortez, married his soul mate Taryn Susann Davis, daughter of Braden and Melanie Davis of St. David, Ariz. Kasey and Taryn…
Community Calendar
Community Calendar
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Living
Gail in the Garden: The importance of trees
When we moved to Colorado in 1998, one of the first things we planted was a blue spruce tree because we have always had one in the yard of every…
Local News
Street sign wording a key to safety
Verbiage means safer commutes for cyclists, motorists