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Gone digital: The Arts Council now has a website! URL is www.mancosarts.org. I will be updating it frequently, plus, the ArtBeat column will be published on our site. The site features all the news...
DATE: Sept. 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
Monthly report: Visitors: 324 in August, compared with 656 in July and 698 in August last year. Phone calls: 144 in August, compared with 152 in July and 128 last August. Emails: 565 in August, 433...
DATE: Sept. 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
At one time there were 18 Ellises in Mancos Valley. Now there are just Rovilla and me. The Deans suffered the same fate except that there are no Deans in the valley any more. Henry Royal Dean was...
DATE: Sept. 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
Anne Henrietta Martin, daughter of a very traditional Bavarian mother and an exceptionally open-minded Irish father, was born Sept. 30, 1875, in Empire City, Nev. She graduated with a B.A. from the...
DATE: Sept. 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), individuals and families may purchase private insurance coverage through new state-based exchanges (or "marketplaces"), which are set to open in October of this...
DATE: Sept. 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
The Sugar Pine Ranch Rally usually signals the start of our fall season. There are beautiful sunny days for riding, late-afternoon thunder showers and cooler temperatures. We say farewell to the...
DATE: Sept. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
Knowing and doing what is expected of me. A responsible person does not wait for a "to do" list. Responsibility is knowing within one's self what needs to be done and carrying these duties out....
DATE: Sept. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
One of the earliest midwives in the Mancos Valley was Hannah Perkins Ellis, who was known far and wide as Aunt Hannah. One of her sons was my grandfather, and a daughter, Mary Jane, married James...
DATE: Sept. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
If you were asked what percentage of the word's population was involved in agriculture 500 years ago, would you know the answer? For me, those kinds of facts are harder to hold onto than a greased...
DATE: Sept. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
The fire restrictions are suspended, but residents should still exercise caution with fires. Recent rains have penetrated the soil and increased the fuel moisture, but it only takes a few dry days...
DATE: Sept. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
A climate contrarian named Alec Rawls claimed, on the basis of a single sentence in a leaked draft of the Fifth Assessment Report (FAR), the entire edifice of climate science is about to collapse....
DATE: Aug. 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
Everyone in town has been busy doing what they can to improve Mancos. We've had people busy landscaping on the highway, folks downtown hanging flowers and distributing potted plants, a mural being...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists
