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Dolores Fire upgrades vehicles

Grants cover half the cost for truck, ambulance

Keeping warm

Dolores residents keep warm by the bonfire at the annual Christmas with Santa event.Sam Green/The Journal

80 years ago

Taken from the pages of the Dolores Star, Friday, Dec. 13, 1935

40 years ago

Taken from the pages of the Dolores Star, Friday, Dec. 19, 1975

Dolores Ranger District to burn slash piles later this week

The Journal The San Juan National Forest Dolores Ranger District plans to burn slash piles resulting from fuels-reduction efforts on 60 acres at McPhee Park, beginning Thursday, Dec. 17. McPhee…

Plant-a-Tree gift certificates are now on sale

Plant-A-Tree holiday gift certificates are now on sale at San Juan National Forest offices for the person on your Christmas list who has everything. “Each $20 donation to the Plant-a-Tree…

Water monitoring plans may bring Four Corners together

New Mexico, La Plata County discuss partnerships

Western states below historic snowpack averages

At the start of December, Nevada and Idaho are the only Western states above their historic averages for snowpack

To Our Customers: The Journal is moving

The Journal’s offices on North Roger Smith Avenue will permanently close on Christmas, Dec. 25. The Journal will reopen Monday, Dec. 28 in its new space, at 8 W. Main…

Christmas in Dolores

Dolores test scores fall below state average

Science is exception; improvement plan adjusts instruction to new standards

Hoofing it

The Koppenhafer family moves 250 head of cattle along Trinity Avenue, just off E. Main Street, on Monday. The herd left Mancos on Saturday. On Monday afternoon, the National Weather…

Storm warning canceled; Cortez and Dolores schools, buses delayed

The Montezuma-Cortez and Dolores school districts and Dove Creek schools announced that schools and buses would open and run two hours behind schedule Tuesday, Dec. 15. Mancos schools planned to…

Monticello’s $126 million wind farm nears startup

Massive project boosts local revenues, but power goes to the grid

Governor dedicates Colorado’s Gold Star Tree of Honor

Army Spc. George Raymond Geer of Cortez is one of more than 350 Colorado military service members lost in the global war on terror since Sept. 11, 2001. Gov. John…

Records disprove Cortez convict’s claim of combat duty

He was discharged, never served in Afghanistan

Search for missing snowmobiler turns into recovery effort

The snowmobile of Ronald Wallace Jr., who has been missing since Sunday, was discovered Thursday by a dive team in Groundhog Reservoir, according to the Dolores County Sheriff’s Office. “What…

Conman gets 6 months in education scam

Mariner The man convicted in an international scam that bilked Cortez-area residents and the Unlimited Learning Center out of $62,000 has been sentenced to six months in jail. After a…

Disagreement between Colorado and EPA over Gold King Mine spill lingers

Federal agency continues to insist that the state played a role

M-CHS winter concert set for Dec. 17

Montezuma-Cortez High School will host its winter concert on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. It will feature both instrumental and vocal music ensembles.