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Home price gains slow in June

Experts are expecting housing prices to slow down for another few months.Standard & Poor’s S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for…

Don’t look back

For 4 stylists who left Walmart, Shear Shack has been ‘best decision’

Durango Natural Foods members want new board after merger talks

Members of Durango Natural Foods, upset about a move to merge the cooperative with a larger New Mexico purveyor of…

Hesperus farmers highlight Denver luncheon

DENVER – Max Fields and James Plate were born to bring delicious homegrown Colorado produce from the farm to the…

Bikers descend on Four Corners for holiday

Motorcycle rally brings some fun and open wallets

Family fun

Donors step up after boys’ dad dies

Two boys hospitalized after U.S. 160 crash

Piñon takes prevention to peer level

Talking with kids about preventing suicide among their peers can be the difference between life and death. The Piñon Project…

Gettin’ muddy

Prescribed burn planned near Dove Creek

The Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office plans a prescribed burn in the West Rim Pines fuels treatment…

Cortez council adopts pot regulations

Ordinance to monitor marijuana storefronts and cultivation facilities is approved 5-2

Montezuma-Cortez school district hires 37 teachers

After weeks of discrepancies, Montezuma-Cortez School Superintendent Alex Carter has settled the issue, stating that the district hired 37 teachers…

DA cleared of outrageous misconduct

Alleged pimp remains jailed under $100K bond

Briefs

Glacial geology field seminar planned Join San Juan Mountains Association and certified interpretive guide MK Thompson on a hike to…

Williams’ death raises awareness of public health problem

Colorado’s suicide rate consistently tops national average

Peaches, corn, tomatoes

Dolores couple sets up stand on Main Street

Briefs

Deadline nears to apply for a spot on fair board The deadline is nearing for anyone interested in becoming a…

Hops harvest

Research plot at Old Fort Lewis examines crop’s vitality

Cronk restitution hearing suspended

DA Furse admonished for ‘wasted’ court time

Hispanics become focus in election

Advocates blast Gardner

2014 MONTEZUMA COUNTY FAIR RESULTS, 4-H DIVISIONS

4-H projects are divided in to junior (8-10 years old), intermediate (11-13), and senior (14-18). There are a few contests…

Sheriff announces sexually violent predator

Spruell warns community not to harass Dolores man

Dancing up a storm

The dance team performs at the Montezuma-Cortez High School football game Friday, Aug. 22 in Cortez.Sam Green/Cortez Journal

Reservoir would destroy habitat of 2 rare plants

Two species thought to exist only in Lone Mesa State Park