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Dr. Seuss’s March 2 birthday has become widely celebrated as “Read Across America Day” at schools across the nation – and Mancos joined in on Thursday. The day kicked off with a parade at 8:30...

The Cortez City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a conditional use permit allowing the Children’s Kiva Montessori School to move into two buildings as the struggling charter school faces the...

The Dolores Library has some new staff and new programs. Cheyenne Baber is the new children’s librarian. She is also an artist and offers free painting classes. Bryan Kyle is the new library...

Young Mancos artists are invited to apply for a new scholarship established by the Mancos Creative District. The Create 81328 Scholarship fund aims to support local college-bound, arts-focused...

For the past semester, students in Lori Fisher’s 10th-grade Animas High School humanities class studied a complex and dark subject in history: genocides. What they learned is a mixture of stresses,...

After a year of trimester scheduling, the Montezuma-Cortez High School is returning to a semester system. Superintendent Lori Haukeness announced the change at the Feb. 19 board meeting. She...

Cortez schools will soon have a new emblem, as the school board unanimously approved a logo to represent the Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 at its Tuesday night meeting. Board members were...

Reading scores came in for Dolores elementary and secondary students, with overall expected results. At a regular board meeting for the Dolores School District RE-4A on Feb. 14, elementary and...

The Montezuma-Cortez school board has decided to grant the Children’s Kiva Montessori School a few months to get on its feet before possibly losing its charter. Kiva has not met the enrollment and...

By Erika Alvero Journal Staff Writer School health and wellness organizations joined together at Montezuma-Cortez High School on Thursday at noon for the school’s first We Care Fair. The fair aimed...

The Mancos school board considered shortening school breaks and changing graduation dates during a work session before its regular meeting Tuesday night. The debates came up while board members...