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It's safe to say Cortez is heavily invested in the new high school. Thousands of voters cast ballots for it last fall, hundreds lobbied for it, and countless others threw their goodwill behind the...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
For Michela Alire, secretary for Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Gary Hayes, the last week can best be described as a whirlwind. Alire, 47, left the humble confines of Towaoc - population 1,087 - and...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
The chance to build a school building from scratch doesn't come around often. With the design phase for the new Montezuma-Cortez High School looming, requests for desired amenities are pouring in....
DATE: Jan. 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Montezuma County Board of Commissioners filed an official appeal Thursday against the U.S. Forest Service's travel management plan for the Boggy-Glade landscape.Concerned that the plan would...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Stereotypes work in a vicious cycle. They discourage people from speaking thoughtfully to one another - if you know everything about somebody already, why bother? But when they don't speak, they...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Living
They've burnt the midnight oil studying, awakened early to run and lift weights, and volunteered free time to various causes. The hard work is done. Now comes the waiting game. Last month, Rep....
DATE: Jan. 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - Education
They've burnt the midnight oil studying, awakened early to run and lift weights, and volunteered free time to various causes. The hard work is done. Now comes the waiting game. Last month, Rep....
DATE: Jan. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
The deep freeze that engulfed Southwest Colorado in recent weeks was cold, no doubt. Whether it's enough to make a dent in bark beetle populations remains to be seen. "I think it will. Some years...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
It's a new year, but the impassioned debate over motorized access to public lands isn't going away. In early December, Dolores District Ranger Derek Padilla released a final decision - Modified...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Jason Wayman, first-year principal at Montezuma-Cortez High School, hoped it wouldn't come to this. But he, and other administrators, saw no other recourse. Citing widespread truancy and periodic...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Long accustomed to looking eastward for representation in the Colorado General Assembly, Cortezians now turn north. As usual, the most recent U.S. Census in 2010 prompted redrawing of district...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
When serendipity strikes, it can seem too good to be true. And sometimes it is. At December's school board meeting, Doug Sparks, member services manager for Empire Electric Association, delivered...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
