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Logging, thinning plan for Dolores District is released

The San Juan National Forest is seeking public comment on a proposed logging and forest restoration project northwest of Dolores and east of Dove Creek. The draft environmental assessment for the...

DATE: Feb. 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dolores Public Library gets new assistant, children’s librarian

The Dolores Library has some new staff and new programs. Cheyenne Baber is the new children’s librarian. She is also an artist and offers free painting classes. Bryan Kyle is the new library...

DATE: Feb. 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Upcoming river season bolstered by snow

As the snow piles up, boaters start dreaming about spring melt water that will fill local rivers. But depending on the river, a permit may be required – triggering a bureaucratic lottery that...

DATE: Feb. 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

BLM releases report on special management areas

The Bureau of Land Management seeks comment on a preliminary environmental assessment of 17 areas of public lands in Southwest Colorado proposed for designation as areas of critical environmental...

DATE: Feb. 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Small earthquakes rattle central Utah

A magnitude 3.7 earthquake struck the densely populated Bluffdale, Utah, area on Feb. 15, and a magnitude 4.0 hit farther south on Wednesday, according to the University of Utah Seismograph...

DATE: Feb. 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

City, county and state plow crews stand ready for storm

State, city and county plow crews are bracing for a mega-snowstorm arriving in the Four Corners area. The storm is expected to last for three days and could dump up to a foot of fresh snow in...

DATE: Feb. 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Unlimited Learning Center offers CDL training

The Unlimited Learning Center in Cortez is offering a commercial driving license course for Class A and B licenses. The next 8-week course begins March 11 on the ULC campus, at 640 E. Second St....

DATE: Feb. 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

County braces for Sand Canyon parking problems

This winter’s snowpack likely will bring an extended mud season, and that could mean a problematic influx of visitors to the Sand Canyon trailhead this spring, Montezuma County commissioners said...

DATE: Feb. 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

BLM advisory group to meet in Dolores

The Bureau of Land Management will hold a meeting of the Southwest Resource Advisory Council in Dolores on March 8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Dolores Public Lands Center, 29211 Colorado Highway...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Public invited to homecoming party for recovering Joey Whited

Jerry and Kristie Whited, of Dolores, invite the community to a homecoming party for their son, Joey, who was injured in a motorcycle accident in September. The event will be March 2 from 1 p.m. to...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Texas bluegrass band to perform in Dolores

Austin-based bluegrass band Wood & Wire will play the Dolores River Brewery on March 3. The band’s recent album “North of Despair” was nominated for a 2018 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Record. Their...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Annual Dolores Spring Banquet is March 30

Bust up the snow-shoveling winter blues at the Dolores Chamber Annual Spring Banquet and Community Celebration Awards Ceremony March 30. The locals’ favorite costume party is held at the Dolores...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

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