Western celebration

Cowboy poets and musicians are coming to the county fair in force for the first Cowboy Gathering of the Four Corners and two longtime performers will be stopping in Mancos. Singer and songwriter...

DATE: July 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Gilkyson brings acclaimed music to Mancos

By Jaime Becktel For The Mancos Times Listening to Grammy-nominated Eliza Gilkyson's Beautiful World, a reverence for life fills the heart. The song is a spellbinding lullaby - a sonnet to Mother...

DATE: July 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Farm Bureau honors state Sen. Ellen Roberts

The Colorado Farm Bureau on Tuesday honored state legislators who have supported issues favored by the agency at its annual mid-summer meeting in Pagosa Springs. Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango,...

DATE: July 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Diving into Mancos

Boyle Park filled with music and laughter during Mancos Days this weekend as participates dove face-first into pie-eating contests, competed fiercely at softball and wrangled rubber ducks in the...

DATE: July 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Board OKs zones for pot shops

After a unanimous vote by the town board on July 23, recreational marijuana shops will be able to apply for a business license from the town at the end of August. After months of discussion, the...

DATE: July 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Hemp struggles in county test plots

A week after the summer solstice, a Mancos farmer planted an acre of hemp, outlawed in Colorado until 2014. Under ideal conditions, an acre of industrial hemp could equal paper production from two...

DATE: July 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

County fair invests in long-term growth

The Montezuma County Fair Board is investing more in this year's event to draw bigger crowds and begin building the fair into more than just a 4-H event. "It should be a community-wide showcase,"...

DATE: July 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Town board will discuss Boyle survey

The Mancos Town Board will discuss the need to have a Boyle Park surveyed at its meeting on Wednesday, July 23. While the original deed includes a legal description of the boundaries of the park,...

DATE: July 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Institute will show 'Once Upon a Forest'

For The Cortez Journal Mountain Studies Institute hosts a showing of Once Upon a Forest as a kickoff for the Southwest Old Growth Forests Conference at the Smiley Building on Sunday, Aug. 3. Doors...

DATE: July 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Budget adds principal, 4 percent in expenses

The Mancos school board approved a budget 2014-15 budget in June that factors in more building projects and an additional principal. The budget passed on a vote of 4-1. Beverly Scott, formerly...

DATE: July 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Fire restrictions in Mesa Verde National Park

Recent hot, dry, and breezy weather has resulted in extremely dry vegetation fuels throughout the park. Because of the very high fire danger, the following fire restrictions will take effect on...

DATE: July 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Mesa Verde visitors add $45.1 million to local economy

A new National Park Service report shows that 460,237 visitors to Mesa Verde in 2013 spent about $45.1 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 617 jobs in the local area....

DATE: July 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

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