Position: Journal Staff Writer

Email: jgonzalez@the-journal.com

Phone Number: 970-564-6048

Local Relay for Life raises $29,000 Money to help fund cancer research

Cancer survivors, family, friends and total strangers braved the 95 degree heat on Saturday to kick off the 2015 Montezuma County Relay for Life. This year’s event was a record-breaker even before...

DATE: June 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Four Corners authors up for state book awards June 21

Three Four Corners area writers will know this Sunday if they were awarded top honors from the Colorado Book Awards, after the winners are announced at the 2015 awards ceremony in Aspen. The...

DATE: June 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Living

Organizers expect record attendance for rodeo in Cortez

Under a blue sky, nearly 100 vehicles, some bearing license plates from as far way as Oklahoma and South Dakota, lined up to get into the Montezuma County Fairgrounds on Saturday for the final...

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

Mancos getting sister city in France

Southwestern Colorado and northwestern France may seem like worlds apart, but the Mancos Town Board hopes to close the distance through a sister city program. Town Administrator Andrea Phillips...

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

Board wades into pot regs

On the heels of an extended moratorium on marijuana business licenses, the town continues to work through sticky points in regulations that govern the business. At its June 10 meeting, the Mancos...

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

Boyle Park going organic

Public parks and other "high-impact" public green spaces in Mancos are going organic after the Mancos Town Board last week passed an all-natural maintenance plan. The plan entails curbing the use...

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

City, CDOT look at improving U.S. 160

In Cortez, crossing U.S. Highway 160 on foot can be a harrowing experience, and the Colorado Department of Transportation and the city of Cortez are looking to make it safer for pedestrians and...

DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Organizers expect record attendance for rodeo in Cortez

Under a blue sky, nearly 100 vehicles, some bearing license plates from as far way as Oklahoma and South Dakota, lined up to get into the Montezuma County Fairgrounds on Saturday for the final...

DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

What’s driving the boomlet?

From Thai Restaurants to pawn shops, and skateboard shops to hair salons, this spring has seen a flurry of new small businesses open in Cortez. The growth emerged a few months after state economic...

DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Firm picked to rewrite Cortez Land Use Code

Originally written in 1978 and amended several times over the past few decades, the City of Cortez Land Use Code undergoing a makeover this year to make the code more user-friendly for businesses...

DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

New Beny’s Diner coming to Main Street

Plans for a new Beny’s Diner were approved by the Cortez City Council last week, allowing ownership of the popular South Broadway restaurant to expand an existing building on Main Street. According...

DATE: June 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Saturday’s rodeo sells out

Under a blue Saturday sky, a line of nearly 100 vehicles, some bearing license plates from as far way as Oklahoma and South Dakota, waited to get into the Montezuma County Fairgrounds for the final...

DATE: June 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Sports

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