Tobie Baker
Position: Staff reporter

Students dig Farm to School Project

During X-block, Mancos Middle School seventh-grader Scotty Sword was the first to volunteer Monday afternoon. It then took him about 10 minutes to harvest two heads of cabbage. In his defens...

Access to public defender challenged

Undersheriff Cronk earned $6,041/month

Public hearing on pot sales ban

Moratorium<br/>would have sales <br/>tax consequences

At last, a good dose of rain

Tropical Storm Ivo<br/>delivers moisture

Hernandez sentenced to 90 days

Mother pleads for leniency after<br/>embezzlement conviction

Fire chief asks for tax hike Cortez fire district

wants to increase<br/>levy by 2.5 mills

Re-1 considers elementary big change

The first day of classes could be different starting in 2014 if officials opt to reconfigure the district’s elementary schools. Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 superintenden...

Sparsely financed

AHC depends on varied funding sources

First day of school, 20 years later

It's been a long time since Todd Sehnert attended the first day of classes, but the 43-year-old was wearing new school clothes yesterday in Mancos. A first-year teacher, Sehnert l...

Board honors best yards

Mancos officials have recognized a Grand Avenue home for its aesthetically pleasing exterior. The board of trustees launched its new "Citizen Recognition" program last week, besto...

Town stalls on solar proposal

A plan to treat drinking water using the sun was met with silence last week by Mancos officials. After town officials were presented with a proposal to install a 60-kilowatt DC ph...

For ‘Mr. Dan,’ the first day of school, one last time

Noel Daniel Imel will walk the hallways at Kemper Elementary on the first day of classes tomorrow, but it will be his last first day of school. “I’ve learned a lot from this job,...