This week you should see on the school campus, around town and inside this paper, this year's first edition of "Paw Prints", a student newspaper production. We all know that putting together a newspaper isn't easy, but these students deserve kudos. This year, the newspaper only has two students on staff and yet they still put together a great issue. Way to go ,Kayla Garchar and Molly Cumpton! Also kudos go out to adviser Jessica Kuntz.

In this month's edition: a story about the school's construction project, a story about the Pony Expresso's two-year anniversary, a story about the adobe oven build near the school garden, sports stories and short profiles on the new teachers.

Don't miss your copy.

Sold out

We all know that Christmas is not too far away, and that it seems to creep into everyone's minds earlier and earlier. In fact, may retail stores already have Christmas trees on display and it isn't even Halloween. Well, it appears the Dolores annual Christmas Bazaar organized by Ruby Gonzales seems no different. The Bazaar, in its 31st year, has sold out of spaces for vendors. Gonzales said that is the earliest that has ever happened. In October? Gonzales caps the number of vendors at the Christmas Bazaar, held the first Saturday in December and at the Dolores Community Center, at 50 vendors. This year, she said, there will be vendors from Bayfield, Mancos, Cove Creek, Grand Junction and of course, Cortez and Dolores.

Two years

It will be two years on Halloween that the Pony Expresso Coffee shop opened its doors. The business will celebrate on Halloween with a pumpkin decorating contest. Owner Teresa Howell said that you have to decorate the pumpkins, you can't carve them.

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Shannon Livick