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Email: jmimiaga@the-journal.com

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Dolores board passes emergency plan

The Dolores Town Board has approved an ordinance to plan for an emergency situation. Paul Hollar, emergency planner for Montezuma County, helped draft the ordinance. He said having the plan in...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Volleyball coach’s decision upheld

Parents of a Dolores middle school volleyball player say they should have been contacted by school officials before their child was kicked off the team for unsportsmanlike conduct. During the...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ride the Ancients

Cyclists in the inaugural Ride the Ancients century ride Sunday enjoyed perfect weather with views of Canyons of the Ancients and Hovenweep National Monuments. Forty-eight riders participated, said...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Locked Up for a good cause

Debilitating diseases, like the 41 afflictions associated with muscular dystrophy, are overwhelming for the victim and their family. The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) works hard to ease the...

DATE: Oct. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Living

Phil’s World at heart of planning battle

On the Alien Trail in Aztec, N.M., mountain bikers ride through an oil field and pass a blaring pump jack that emits a haze of exhaust. Could that scene play out at Phil’s World biking park? The...

DATE: Oct. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ancient N. America connected to Mexico

Modern borders have skewed how ancient civilizations are interpreted, says Steve Leckson, a University of Colorado archaeologist. Great North American civilizations from 1,000 years ago, including...

DATE: Oct. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

County seeks master lease plan committee

Montezuma County commissioners plan to form a committee to advise the Bureau of Land Management on an oil-and-gas master lease plan.If its conditions are met, the county said the seven-member...

DATE: Oct. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Whitewater ahead?

To spill or not to spill? That is the question on the minds of local boaters anticipating a 2016 whitewater release from McPhee Dam into the Lower Dolores River. There have not been boatable flows...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Thieves of heart and soul

A big hit in France as well as Dolores, the bluesy Sugar Thieves return to the Dolores River Brewery on Friday, Oct. 9. The Phoenix Valley five-piece performs an original mix of gospel-infused...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

‘Ride for the Bern’

Mikel Carmon says the country needs Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to lead the way forward. To help get the word out on Sanders’ vision for Americans, she’s riding her horse from...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Are our headwaters at risk of a mine leak?

The headwaters of the Dolores River share space with century-old mines similar to the Gold King mine that spilled 3 million gallons of wastewater into the Animas River this August.But the...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Officials host NCA forum

Fifty interested citizens attended a forum Wednesday to learn whether the Lower Dolores River should be designated a National Conservation Area from Bradfield Bridge to Bedrock. The congressional...

DATE: Oct. 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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