Position: Journal Staff Writer

Email: jgonzalez@the-journal.com

Phone Number: 970-564-6048

New tower to improve police, fire radio signal

Police and fire radio signal should get a bit stronger thanks to a multi-jurisdictional effort to place a new radio tower on top of Caviness Mountain near Mancos. The city of Cortez, on behalf of...

DATE: Oct. 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mancos marijuana regulations clarified

New marijuana regulations are on the books for the town of Mancos. The moratorium on new marijuana business licenses that the town has had in place since February will officially be lifted Nov. 19....

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

Authorities discover homemade bomb

Charges are pending for a Mancos man who, after authorities responded to his home for a call of a suicidal person, is being accused of making a bomb from a coffeemaker. Mancos Marshal John Cox said...

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

Kiva seeks GOCO grant for Montezuma Park playground

The Children’s Kiva Montessori Charter School is seeking a Great Outdoors Colorado grant to add a playground to Montezuma Park in Cortez. The school hopes to enhance the pocket park with a play...

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

Group submits ideas for parcel

The volunteer-led Mancos Trails Group is submitting an official proposal to the Bureau of Land Management this week that suggests a framework for how hikers, horseback riders, hunters, and mountain...

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

Watch D.O.G.S.

Mancos Elementary is starting a new program that seeks to bring dads and other positive male role models in for a day to volunteer around the campus. The program, called Watch D.O.G.S., is an...

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

County housing market picks up

Montezuma County’s housing market continues to strengthen, according to the latest figures from the Colorado Real Estate Network. Countywide, there were 39 home sales during August, up 69 percent...

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

Paradise Village behind schedule

The roughly $2.3 million water, sewer and road overhaul of the Paradise Village neighborhood is trucking along, but the project continues to depend on the weather. “Our contract went through Nov....

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

Skate competition casts light on mentoring program

The Piñon Project has teamed up with Colorado Skate Collective to put on the inaugural Youth Mentor Skate Jam, a kid-friendly skate competition at Parque de Vida scheduled for Saturday. The free...

DATE: Oct. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Living

Skate competition casts light on mentoring program

The Piñon Project has teamed up with Colorado Skate Collective to put on the inaugural Youth Mentor Skate Jam, a kid-friendly skate competition at Parque de Vida scheduled for Saturday. The free...

DATE: Oct. 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Living

‘True colors’

Almost 400 people packed into the brand-new Ralph E. Vavak auditorium at Montezuma-Cortez High School to see the San Juan Symphony Orchestra and its special guests, guest conductor Blake Richardson...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Living

Balloon Fest nets nearly $6,000 for nonprofits

Two nonprofits will be splitting the nearly $6,000 in proceeds brought in from this year’s Mancos Valley Balloon Fest & Street Fair. This year’s beneficiaries are Medicine Horse Center and...

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

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