Tobie Baker
Position: Staff reporter

2 candidates vie for Cortez school board

Only one Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School Board post is contested in the upcoming election. The two candidates running for the District C post are Sherri Wright and Bob Waggoner. A ca...

College honors Mancos native

Humiston leads rural development for ag department

Farmers urged to voice hemp concerns

Crop could revitalize bioenergy plant in Dove Creek, man says

Students as dog whisperers

When life’s traumas set in, Miles and Oscar are kids’ best friends

Hemp tour plans to stop in Cortez

The ancestral Puebloans once roamed the area wearing sandals made from hemp, and area farmers can now grow the same ancient crop. Hemp was outlawed in the United States nearly 50...

Machete-wielding assailant pleads guilty to menacing

A man accused of terrorizing a neighborhood with a machete has pled guilty to three counts of menacing. Dressed in a black-and-white striped inmate uniform, Walter Marquez, 36, of...

Cortez gives approval to historical sites

Two East North Street, three East Montezuma Avenue and one North Washington Street structures are now listed as historical places with the city of Cortez. Since 2010, the city has...

Mancos to weigh ’14 budget

Next year’s general-fund expenditures to top $1M

Ute Mountain Utes share concerns about education

Outgoing tribal chairman urges schools to work with tribe

Requests surpass budget

Final funding figures for agencies will come in January

Leaner Mesa Verde reopens to visitors

Because of the recent government shutdown, the Baileys from Salt Lake City considered cancelling their family vacation to Mesa Verde National Park. A seven-hour drive from Utah to...

Some parents fail school road rules

Front of building should be clear for buses