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Should Durango High School close its campus?

Closing Durango High School’s campus, a debate that springs up about once a decade, has been rekindled – returning this year after a rash of shootings at schools across the country, including in...

DATE: March 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

School board discusses trimester system, mill levy

The Montezuma-Cortez school board on Tuesday decided to consider a mill levy for the November ballot and discussed replacing the semester system with a trimester system in the high school and...

DATE: March 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dolores student is awarded coveted Boettcher Scholarship

Dolores High School senior Cameron Elder has been awarded the Colorado Boettcher Scholarship, which provides a full scholarship to any in-state school. Elder, a Dolores student since kindergarten...

DATE: March 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez Middle School Honor Roll, 2017-2018, Q3

Grade 8: 4.0 Adezdiin Boeckman, Erin Brown, Mikah Burris, Roan House, Koral Jackson, Duncan Martin, Ellen McAlpin, Trinidad McDonell, Ashlynn Romine, Rachel Romine, Sasha Serna, Alexcia Sharp,...

DATE: March 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

Fort Lewis College names three finalists for presidency

Fort Lewis College has named three finalists for the school’s presidency – two are currently higher-education administrators teaching abroad and one works for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....

DATE: March 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

Parents, school officials cross wires on school-safety meeting

Parents concerned about school safety crossed wires with Durango School District officials, with both taking leadership roles in organizing the same panel. A passionate desire to move quickly to...

DATE: March 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

Annika Lewis at the United Nations

DATE: March 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mancos school board discusses safety, calendar and walkout

Mancos School District Re-6 covered a lot of ground in its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday: security measures, test opt-outs, its four-day calendar, its walkout, and its response to a recent...

DATE: March 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Deadline for Dean Hanson scholarship is April 15

The Journal Applications are now being accepted for the Four Corners Board of Realtors Dean Hanson Memorial Scholarship. “This scholarship can be awarded to traditional and nontraditional students...

DATE: March 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

University of Colorado to honor 1st black female graduate

BOULDER – The University of Colorado has decided to honor its first black female graduate, who wasn’t allowed to walk across the stage in 1918. The Daily Camera reports that Polly McLean, a CU...

DATE: March 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Family of student killed on north Main starts tutoring fund

After Fort Lewis College student Allen Duke was killed by a driver last year while walking to work along north Main Avenue, his family learned he was tutoring students during his already busy...

DATE: March 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Shundiin Kauffman makes dean’s list at Johnson Wales University in Denver

The Journal Shundiin Kauffman, a 2016 graduate of the Goal Academy High School in Cortez, made the dean’s list as a sophomore for the winter semester at Johnson Wales University in Denver. She...

DATE: March 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

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