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Business owner deported to Honduras

Edin Ramos, a Bayfield business owner who has been held in an Immigration and Custom Enforcement detention center in Aurora since February, has been deported to his home country, Honduras. Ramos,...

DATE: May 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Voters approve mill levy for Mancos Conservation District

Voters in the Mancos Conservation District approved a half-mill tax in Tuesday’s special district election. Conservation District manager Gretchen Rank said 315 voted in favor of the tax and 199...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez Fire Protection District elects three board members

In Tuesday’s election, voters chose Les Rogers, Brad Ray and Jan Nelson to serve on the Cortez Fire Protection District board of directors. In unofficial results, Rogers garnered the most votes,...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma County sheriff suspects arson in series of fires

The Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a series of fires suspected to be caused by arson, and it’s seeking the public’s help. Deputies responded to five small fires in the county...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mount Lookout Grange plans annual Mancos Bloom fundraiser

The Mount Lookout Grange will welcome spring to Montezuma County with its annual Mancos Bloom fundraiser on May 20. One of two regular fundraisers for the Grange, the Bloom has become a Mancos...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dolores River Festival will kick off summer with full slate of music

The Dolores River Festival has lined up seven bands to perform all day at Joe Rowell Park on June 2. “It should be a really fun day,” said festival promoter Ryan Robison. “The lineup has a lot of...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Marijuana taxes aren’t a silver bullet for school funding

Tax revenue generated by legal recreational marijuana is nice to have for some noneducational building costs, but it’s not going to turn around the tight school funding situation in Colorado any...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Indigenous food sovereignty helps generation connect with tradition

In a white ceramic bowl, Mariah Gladstone mixes canned salmon, corn meal and chia – creating the kind of nourishing meal anyone can fix at home in minutes. While it’s not exactly what her Blackfeet...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Living

A unique, historic orchard returns to life at Old Fort Lewis

In just a few years, a century-old apple orchard that had been neglected and fallen into disrepair has been made whole again at the Old Fort Lewis campus near Hesperus. “It’s honestly the most...

DATE: May 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Morley Ballantine inducted into Hall of Fame

COLORADO SPRINGS – Morley Ballantine, former chairman, publisher and editor of The Durango Herald, has been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame. Ballantine was recognized for...

DATE: May 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Missing man found dead near Vallecito

A 21-year-old man from Gallup, New Mexico, who had been missing for several weeks, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Sunday near Vallecito Lake, northeast of Durango,...

DATE: May 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

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