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3B: Let’s raise a barn together

Editor:I have spent the past six years serving area college students in the physical manifestation of a community vision that came to fruition over 40 years ago.Back then, our community had no...

DATE: Oct. 6, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Let’s fire this community organizer

Editor:It seems obvious to me that our leader, Mr. Obama, has run, willy-nilly, smack-dab into the Peter Principle: “Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence.”Well, he did, and because...

DATE: Oct. 6, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Commissioners’ slobbering sycophantic words

Editor:Aug. 13, 2012 — a day of infamy.Remember that day fellow Montezuma County citizens. That is the day our county commissioners sold us down the river. Most of us expected this from the two...

DATE: Oct. 4, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Dolores Chamber supports school bonds

Editor:Dolores Chamber of Commerce has pased a resolution to support the Dolores and Cortez school BEST grant bond issues:The Dolores Chamber of Commerce Board unanimously supports both the Dolores...

DATE: Oct. 4, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

I must have seen those poor horses loaded

Editor:I was at the adoption, and must have seen these poor horses loaded. I think the mare in the photo is Ember, but I don’t know who the Williams family adopted with her.Those body scores are...

DATE: Oct. 4, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

3B: The Cortez Chamber’s full support

Editor:Strong schools and strong businesses go hand in hand in creating a flourishing community. Businesses look for communities that are supportive, progressive and provide excellence in...

DATE: Oct. 4, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

How could we not give our students the best?

Editor:I would like to respond to the letters in opposition to passing the 3B bond to build a new high school based on the results of our school report card. While accountability is an essential...

DATE: Oct. 2, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

South gateway is a festering eyesore

Editor:Thank you for the spot-on “Community Pride” editorial. The south gateway to Cortez is a festering eyesore that deserves the immediate attention of both our city and county planners. And if...

DATE: Oct. 2, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

3B: Not yet convinced

Editor:I have not decided if I am going to vote for the new high school or not. No one has convinced me that a new high school is really needed. I think the thing that I hate hearing the worst is...

DATE: Oct. 2, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Refs should display fairness, not favoritism

Editor:I was very ashamed to say I was from Cortez on Sept. 22. I went to watch a football game that my 9-year-old grandson had come from Farmington to play against Cortez. I could not believe how...

DATE: Oct. 2, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

3B: Actions speak louder than words

Editor:I am going to vote “yes” on 3B! I can’t think of any better investment in Cortez’s future than to say, yes, we want our children to have a safe place to attend school and a school that will...

DATE: Sept. 29, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

3B: Re-1 needs to find ways to save

Editor:The school district is back again wanting a tax increase. Apparently, they think we are all sitting on mattresses full of money, too greedy to share it. Unfortunately, that is not the...

DATE: Sept. 29, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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