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Fall season brings Harvest Fest

Lee-Ann Hill displays some of her organic produce from Laughing Wolf Farm at the Dolores Harvest Festival on Saturday.Sam Green/The Journal

Faces in the Crowd: The Servers

Grace Heman and Kerrington Higginbotham hollow out a bread bowl as Bailey Boyd watches at the Dolores Harvest Festival. The Dolores cheerleaders served chili and potato soup at the festival…

80 Years Ago

Taken from the pages of the Dolores Star, Friday, Oct. 18, 1935.

40 Years Ago

Taken from the pages of the Dolores Star, Friday, Oct. 17, 1975

Group submits ideas for parcel

Trails, parking, funding are on shopping list

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Mancos Elementary recruiting dads for service

Town Talk On tap for the Mancos Valley

Common Press hosts speaker, open house Mancos Common Press this Saturday is hosting a lecture and open house, featuring Matt Neff of the Common Press at the University of Pennsylvania.…

Lewis-Arriola fire seeks department volunteers

Volunteers are needed for the Lewis-Arriola Volunteer Fire Department. Founded in 1975 as a volunteer district, the department serves northwest Montezuma County and assists districts in Dolores, Mancos, Cortez and…

How to apply for master lease plan committee

Montezuma County commissioners are seeking members for a committee to provide local input on a proposed BLM master lease plan for oil and gas development. Group members will include one…

One airlifted after crash on highway

One person was airlifted for medical treatment after a traffic accident Sunday morning on Colorado Highway 145. According to a Colorado State Patrol spokesperson, the unnamed victim was airlifted to…

Utes plan to build 10 units for homeless

Project funded by HUD, tribal match

County housing market picks up

Home sales, median price rise

Sleeping Ute flower rebounds

The Sleeping Ute milkvetch was recently removed from the endangered species list.J. Anderson/Colorado State University A reassessment of threats to a wildflower found only on Ute Mountain Ute land has…

CU ticket flap precedes GOP debate

Only 100 seats available to students

New EPA spill stirs attacks

DENVER – News Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency was responsible for another mine spill, this time near Crested Butte, came with a quick political punch. But the Standard Mine…

Orchard Restoration Project A bite of Montezuma County

Phil’s World at heart of planning battle

On the Alien Trail in Aztec, N.M., mountain bikers ride through an oil field and pass a blaring pump jack that emits a haze of exhaust. Could that scene play…

Ancient N. America connected to Mexico

Chaco, Cahokia were outliers of great empire, archaeologist says

Paradise Village behind schedule

Repaving likely coming in spring

Box, Plentyholes elected to UMU tribal council

Marissa Box, left, and Juantita Plentyholes won their campaigns for the Ute Mountain Ute tribal council on Friday.Tobie Baker/The Journal TOWAOC – After her fifth campaign attempt, Marissa Box has…