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Cortez finalizes permit for temporary winter homeless shelter

The Cortez homeless population will still be able to find refuge this winter while the Bridge Emergency Shelter builds a new permanent home, but there will be changes this season. The Cortez City...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

El Niño could bring some drought relief to the Southwest

OKLAHOMA CITY – Climatologists said Wednesday that conditions are right for an El Niño weather pattern to develop that could bring wetter-than-normal conditions this winter in drought-stricken...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado offering free sign-language interpretation services

People in need of sign-language interpretation services can request them for free under a pilot program being offered by the state of Colorado. Rural residents who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Update: Teen faces charge after collision on Main Street

Two vehicles were involved in a collision Friday evening at the intersection of East Main and State streets in Cortez. Police Lt. Andy Brock said a 16-year-old female driver of a red Honda CRV was...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez finance director: Halt construction on fiber project

Less than two months before the city of Cortez is expected to adopt a balanced 2019 budget, the proposed budget is running in the red, and the fiber-optic internet installation program is draining...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

CDOT explains upcoming transportation ballot initiatives

Colorado voters on Nov. 6 will determine the fate of two ballot initiatives that would provide different levels of funding for transportation projects throughout the state. Mike McVaugh, Region 5...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Silverton’s skijoring race likely to return this winter

The annual skijoring race in Silverton is expected to return this winter. Pete Maisel, event organizer, said all insurance issues that arose out of the 2017 skijoring race – where three people were...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hunter mistakenly kills moose in Silverton

A hunter from Farmington shot a moose that he mistook for a bull elk last weekend outside of Silverton. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Thursday that the hunter, Bruce Black, self-reported the...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Staff shakeup, low test scores hit Kiva Montessori School

At 8:08 a.m. on Sept. 17, a person claiming to be a Children’s Kiva Montessori School staffer emailed CKMS board members an account of alleged mismanagement and neglect by a superior at the school....

DATE: Oct. 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mesa Verde acquires Rockefeller’s Native American art collection

A trove of Native American art kept locked in a Rockefeller family home in Seal Harbor, Maine, for nearly 100 years has found a new home at Mesa Verde National Park. The Estate of David Rockefeller...

DATE: Oct. 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Shortage of coal leaves some without heat source

Hay Gulch Coal – one of the only suppliers of coal for home-heating purposes in the Four Corners – has been forced to all but close this fall because of a lack of available coal to sell. “I’m...

DATE: Oct. 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business

Kyra Allen, of Cortez, to compete in Miss Colorado Teen USA contest

The Journal Kyra Allen, of Cortez, will compete in the Miss Colorado Teen USA pageant Sunday in Greeley. Allen, a freshman studying equine science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins,...

DATE: Oct. 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Living

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