Position: Reporter

Email: michaelm@cortezjournal.com

Phone Number: 970-564-6034

About: Michael Maresh is the education, county and public lands reporter for the Journal. Maresh grew up in Phoenix Ariz., and graduated with a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in the late 1990s and has been a reporter for various newspapers for the last 15 years, most recently with the Rio Grande SUN in Española, N.M. which is 23 miles north of Santa Fe.
When not working, Maresh likes to run, hike, barbecue and is a sports fanatic to the fullest when it comes to football, basketball and baseball.
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Graduates ready to soar

Montezuma-Cortez High Schoolbid farewell to 110 graduates on Thursday night during its 2012 commencement ceremonies.With the stands at Panther Stadium filled to capacity, Senior Class President...

DATE: June 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez Farmers Market to open Saturday

Close to 50 vendors to start season at Market and Elm streets

DATE: May 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Making the trip easier

Montezuma-Cortez High School students wanting to take classes at the west campus of Southwest Colorado Community College have one more way to get there.The Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 is...

DATE: May 28, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

BEST needs to see proof

Even before the Building Excellent Schools Today Board decides which school districts it will fund on requests, it wants proof that the school districts will be able to manage the funds in a...

DATE: May 25, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez Middle School students spend time in the field

For the last month Lisa Gatzke’s eighth-grade class has been studying the Civil War and the people who fought in it.Gatzke took her students to the Cortez Cemetery Thursday morning so they could...

DATE: May 25, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

There will be racing in Cortez this season

The Montezuma County Fairgrounds Speedway will have racing this season after all.A Farmington, N.M., man, who has raced at the speedway for the past 13 years, decided to take over the operations...

DATE: May 23, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Just one FFA high school teacher?

The Montezuma-Cortez School Board Re-1 and Interim Superintendent Mary Rubadeau were urged by numerous parents and students Tuesday night to find the funding for an FFA and agriculture teacher for...

DATE: May 23, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Passion leads to Battle Rock

Michael Canzona is coming full circle.Canzona, chief of operations for the Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1, is leaving his position and his last day will be sometime next month.Following his...

DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Marketing the Mesa

Mesa Verde National Park is well known in some segments of the nation partly because the park uses electronic and print advertisements to entice people to visit.Thelma Dena, director of sales and...

DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: News

Former volunteers tell stories

Stories from local residents who formerly served as Peace Corps volunteers follow:BILL SOUTHWORTHBill Southworth joined the Peace Corps in 1962 and spent two years in Nigeria to teach a variety of...

DATE: May 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Living

Peace Time

Ernie Zaremba is on a mission to tell the stories of every National Peace Corps Association member who has ever served.Zaremba is traveling the country to talk to former volunteers and record...

DATE: May 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Living

BEST official tours M-CHS

In hopes that the Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 will receive a little more than $21 million from the 2012-13 Building Excellent Schools Today grant funds, a district administrator showed a...

DATE: May 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

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