Fewer millennials are leaving the nest

WASHINGTON – Many of America’s young adults appear to be in no hurry to move out of their old bedrooms. For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for...

DATE: May 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

New York considers outlawing declawing of cats

ALBANY, N.Y. – For many decades, declawing cats has been a routine veterinary procedure, but this is no simple pedicure. There’s anesthesia, pain medication and the amputation of the cat’s toes...

DATE: May 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Book revives tale of 1998 Four Corners manhunt

This week will mark 18 years since three armed men shot multiple bullets into a Cortez police officer and then fled into the rugged scrub oak on the Utah-Colorado border, setting off what some call...

DATE: May 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Class of 1986 looking for classmates for June reunion

The Montezuma-Cortez High School Class of 1986 plans its 30-year reunion on June 17 and 18, and organizers are looking for all classmates, whether they graduated or not. Anyone who attended or...

DATE: May 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Community Calendar

Email announcements to news@the-journal.com and include “Community Calendar” in the subject field. Items submitted less than two weeks in advance will be less likely to be published. Entries and...

DATE: May 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Hikes are a great way to see the Southwest

Did you know that being outside improves your physical, as well as your psychological health in many ways? It helps everything from combatting depression to increasing your brain function, to...

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

FLC retrieves historic images from unstable negatives

Treasure comes in many forms. Husbands and wives. Children. And rare historic photographs not seen in 100 years. I paid my way through a Ph.D. by teaching photojournalism, American history and...

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

DAR asks for help in placing vets’ flags

For the past seven years, the members of the Sleeping Ute Mountain Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution have marked the graves of veterans in the rural cemeteries in Montezuma County before...

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Gail’s Garden Prepare perennials, and they’ll provide a big return

There’s a lot of confusion in the garden center each spring about which plants are perennials and which are annuals. A simple rule to remember is that the annuals have to be replanted annually each...

DATE: May 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Guide highlights Native American link to historic Route 66

ALBUQUERQUE– A new story is unfolding along historic Route 66 thanks to a yearlong project coordinated by a tourism group with help from the National Park Service and American Indian tribes along...

DATE: May 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Deadline nears to pre-register for birding festival

The Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival kicks off Wednesday, offering visitors the chance to experience cultural and scenic landscapes in the Four Corners area. Running through Sunday, May 15,...

DATE: May 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Complex surgeries go better when hospitals have experience

By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service If you need a risky, complicated surgery, would you go to a hospital or surgeon who had performed the procedure only a time or two before? Most people...

DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

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