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Access to isolated BLM land is a tough road

During a lively back-and-forth discussion Monday, the Bureau of Land Management, Montezuma County Commission and residents continued to hash out public access to land south of Summit Lake. Quick...

DATE: Aug. 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma Housing Authority reports less turnover in affordable housing

Fewer people are moving out of Montezuma County’s public housing apartments than in past years, according to the Housing Authority of Montezuma’s latest occupancy report.The Housing Authority is a...

DATE: Aug. 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma-Cortez surpasses English SAT benchmark

Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 District students fell short of the state’s average English SAT score of 513.4, coming in at an average of 490.5. Students taking the PSAT left a slightly larger margin in...

DATE: Aug. 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

DC Rat Rod car show meets on Colorado borderland

On a sunny summer day in the plains of the Utah and Colorado border, people from near and far took their cars to the Stateline Bar and Grill for the fourth annual DC Rat Rod Nationalz Car Show. ...

DATE: Aug. 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Officials hope these three ideas will reverse Colorado's teacher shortage

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Nic Garcia on August 23, 2017Colorado education leaders are zeroing in on three broad ways to curb the state’s teacher shortage: increasing compensation,...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

Four-time drunken driving offender gets jail for hit-and-run

A Durango man with three previous drunken driving offenses was sentenced Friday to two years in jail and 10 years of probation for running over two pedestrians while driving drunk. Cruz Baca, 39,...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

A driverless carriage. The next big thing?

Tales of a headless horseman who prowls the forests at night in a horse-drawn carriage, looking for his decapitated head and taking victims along the way, have persisted and spooked people since...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado to Sessions: Pot industry working and can be better

DENVER — Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is working — and can work better with federal collaboration, the state’s governor and Republican attorney general told U.S. Attorney General Jeff...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Mancos approves contract for bridge design

On Wednesday the Mancos town board approved a contract with Russell Planning and Engineering to design a replacement for the Main Street Bridge. The bridge was built in 1912, and replacing it has...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

New cider and wine company starting in Mancos

Three entrepreneurs hope to put Mancos on the map in the hard cider industry this year. Earlier this year, Sam Perry, Neal Wight and Joe Buckel rented a space in the former La Plata Millworks...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Harvest Beer Festival to benefit Montezuma Land Conservancy

The Montezuma Land Conservancy will host the family-friendly 19th annual Harvest Beer Festival and Super Silent Auction at Parque de Vida on Sept. 9 “Each year, it is our only major fundraiser, and...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Photographer Chris Eaton hosts program and workshop at Mesa Verde

Artist-in-residence Christopher Eaton will conduct a free program and workshop at Mesa Verde National Park on Friday night, Sept. 15, at the Morefield Campground Amphitheater. Eaton, an...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

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