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Email: tbaker@the-journal.com

Phone Number: 970-564-6033

Texas sex offender arrested in Dolores

A convicted sex offender from Texas was arrested last week in Dolores after failing to notify officials of his new address. During a cooperative investigation with La Plata County authorities, a...

DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Skate and bike competition on Saturday

A family-friendly bike and skate competition is held Saturday as part of a multi-year suicide awareness campaign. “This competition has grown in leaps and bounds every year,” said event organizer...

DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ag grants awarded to local agencies

Three local organizations have received grants totaling nearly $30,000 from the Colorado Department of Agriculture. The “Enrich Colorado Ag Grant Program” aims to help companies conduct research...

DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

City OKs $760,000 water meter bid

With a bid price now approved, new digital water meters could be in place across Cortez by the end of the summer. At a city council meeting on Tuesday, May 26, Cortez leaders unanimously approved a...

DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Teachers air views in survey

Across the Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 school district, about 4 in 5 teachers believe that their respective schools were a good place to work and learn last year. The findings were revealed in a...

DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Trees torn, uprooted at Cortez Middle School orchard

Vandals recently struck the Cortez Middle School heritage orchard, ripping trees out of the ground and breaking others in half.Montezuma School to Farm officials are asking the community to help...

DATE: May 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bond reduced for murder suspect

DOVE CREEK - Charged with second-degree murder, a local man had a $1 million lowered to $200,000 this week. After a 45-minute hearing on Tuesday, May 26, District Court Judge Todd Plewe granted a...

DATE: May 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Jazz fused with Native chants

The first two phrases of the melody from "Oh! Susana," is based on the major pentatonic scale, or musical mode, which contains five notes per octave. So are a majority of Native American pow wow...

DATE: May 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - Living

Sex offender nabbed in Dolores

A convicted sex offender from Texas was arrested last week in Dolores after failing to notify officials of his new address. During a cooperative investigation with La Plata County authorities, a...

DATE: May 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

'George was one of many'

For Harold Geer, dedicating an outdoor recreational area in honor of his son is misrepresentative, because countless others have also died while defending our nation's freedoms. "A lot of soldiers...

DATE: May 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Bond reduced for murder suspect

DOVE CREEK – Charged with second-degree murder, a local man had a $1 million lowered to $200,000 this week. After a 45-minute hearing on Tuesday, May 26, District Court Judge Todd Plewe granted a...

DATE: May 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Valedictorian, teacher encourage M-CHS grads to improve humanity

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,...

DATE: May 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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