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June Head
Position: Staff reporter

DAR’s lap robes go to State Veterans Home

Members and friends of Sleeping Ute Mountain Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution chapter have given lap robes for the past three years for use in the 120-bed, long-term facility for...

The Old West: Cowboys at Beaver Creek and Indians at Meadows Trading Post

Part 2: Continued from The Cortez Journal, Jan. 3, 2014 In her interview, Allie Meadows Baer talked about an interesting visitor to her father Billy Meadows’ trading post in the s...

Looking Back Which came first: the chicken or the chicken ordinance?

From the Cortez Sentinel, March 21, 1929 CHICKEN OWNERS Notice is hereby given that henceforth chickens must be kept on the premises of the owner. Allowing chickens to ...

Fire at highway barn threatens county records

From the Cortez Herald June 11, 1931 Damage estimated at $3,500 when the highway shop and tools were destroyed by a most spectacular blaze in Cortez of recent years. Luckily most ...

Mesa Verde’s early park visitors

PAST HISTORY OF EVENTS AT MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK Making Camp for the Night, July 1909. Prof. Ed Levy was a teacher in Cortez in 1909/10. This...

German Settlement 'just like Germany'

Many residents had known one another before settling southwest of Big Bend