Mancos volleyball coach Brittany Lang is excited for the 2015 season. Although the Blue Jays lost five players to graduation, they return six. Seniors Jessica Gutierrez, Taryn Gordanier, Ha...

The Tomlynns play at the distillery The Mancos Valley Distillery presents the Cortez band The Tomlynns, Friday, Aug. 28. Doors open at 5 p.m., and music starts at 8 p.m. There's ...

Local artist Jan Wright is holding a free workshop on Thursday that utilizes her ?"Hands of the Ancients" medicine cards. The 28-card deck features Wright's watercolor paintings of rock art...

Greetings, stargazers. The late afternoon monsoon clouds finally parted and made for a few good observing evenings recently. Unfortunately for me, a couple of those nights were interrupte...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used graphics, hashtags and cheeky banter to debate a legitimate policy issue: the cost of higher education. Polit...

As I continue with the alphabet, I see some familiar families. Lawson Bowling was born on September 28, 1894. He worked in sawmills and even owned one until he became employed as the Montez...

Classes at Southwest Colorado Community College start Aug. 24, and new student orientations will be on the West Campus between Mancos and Cortez, 33057 U.S. 160, on Tuesday, Aug. 25 from 2 to 5 p.m. ...

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Montezuma County will host a seminar for military veterans with PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, this weekend. Held at the County Annex on Chestnut Street from 10 a.m. to noon on Sa...

The BLM's Tres Rios Field Office is accepting public comments on a proposal to lease six parcels totaling 5,632 acres of public mineral estate in Dolores and Montezuma counties for the upcoming Feb. 1...