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Last week, Mancos Elementary School students and staff celebrated two grants the school recently was awarded. The first award was a $110,000 Play Ground Initiative grant from Great Outdoors...

The first year of a new grant program designed to encourage more physical activity in Southwest Colorado schools has been a success, the program’s organizer said. Take 10 is an initiative of the...

Mancos senior Brittney Peacock has been awarded a full-ride scholarship to Duke University. The institution’s David M. Rubenstein merit scholarship is awarded to students who are the first in their...

DENVER – The Senate was thrown into chaos briefly Friday as rule books and copies of the Colorado Revised Statutes were thrown open to check procedures because of a ruling by a committee chairman....

Though Montezuma-Cortez High School counselors Carmen Maness and Tammi Slagle said the way the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” handles suicide is questionable, they said it might help generate...

After this school year, longtime Montezuma-Cortez High School band director Rodney Ritthaler will retire. Fresh out of college, Ritthaler started as assistant band director at M-CHS 28 years ago....

Mancos High School seniors Hannah Skinner and Axel Bonde will get full scholarships through the Daniels Foundation as they enter the next stage of their lives this fall. Bonde is headed to Fort...

DENVER – The annual decision on how much state funding school districts will get for each pupil is eagerly awaited as they prepare their budgets. But this year, an amendment to the School Finance...

Cortez Middle School students on Tuesday told school board members a new science program has helped them be more expressive and dedicated in school. Science Night in Towaoc started two years ago as...