Position: Journal Staff Writer

Email: tbaker@the-journal.com

Phone Number: 970-564-6033

Municipal ‘lawn cop’ angers homeowner

With more rainfall come more weeds – and a “few more” city code violations. The number of code enforcement citations issued for overgrown weeds inside city limits wasn’t available, but one official...

DATE: June 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mancos artists open studio doors

Internationally acclaimed sculptor Veryl Goodnight will open her Mancos studio doors on Saturday. Visitors can get a sneak peak of her latest project, “The Bachelor Band.” A statute of three horses...

DATE: June 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Living

Dog-killing neighbor gets jail time

A judge recently made an example of a Cortez woman who pleaded guilty in an animal cruelty case. Appearing out of custody at an arraignment hearing earlier this month, Marie Sage, 43, agreed to a...

DATE: June 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ska Brewing Company: pioneers of summer stout

A summer cream stout will be toasted on Sunday, the day the northern hemisphere marks the summer solstice. What? “There is no seasonal stout category,” confirmed Colorado Brewers Guild spokesperson...

DATE: June 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Ska Brewing Co. turns 20

Dave Thibodeau admits he wasn’t a model student in high school. He liked to party. So did his friend Bill Graham. And after Thibodeau, at age 17, stumbled across his dad’s “Brew Book,” the duo...

DATE: June 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Mississippi blues man to play Telluride festival

Mississippi hill country bluesman Leo "Bud" Welch had literally played for a lifetime, some 65 years, with little fanfare before dropping his first record. Then, on Jan. 7, 2014, just weeks before...

DATE: June 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - Living

Local teen dies in auto crash

Two people were killed, and two others were seriously injured in a head-on collision along U.S. 160 in Costilla County. A Colorado State Patrol spokesperson said the collision occurred near mile...

DATE: June 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Attempted escape adds 3 years to killer's life sentence

Serving life behind bars, a convicted murderer had three years added to his sentence last week after he pleaded guilty to charges in a failed jailbreak. A public defense attorney had planned to...

DATE: June 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Mancos artists set to open studio doors

Internationally acclaimed sculptor Veryl Goodnight will open her Mancos studio doors on Saturday. Visitors can get a sneak peak of her latest project, "The Bachelor Band." A statute of three horses...

DATE: June 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Mississippi blues man to play Telluride

Mississippi hill country bluesman Leo “Bud” Welch had literally played for a lifetime, some 65 years, with little fanfare before dropping his first record. Then, on Jan. 7, 2014, just weeks before...

DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sexual violent predator freed

Freed from the Montezuma County jail on May 14, it took local authorities four weeks before announcing the release of a sexually violent predator. The Cortez Police Department made the required...

DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Three years added to life sentence after escape attempt

Serving life behind bars, a convicted murder had three years added to his sentence last week after he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a failed jailbreak. A public defense attorney had...

DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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