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Pump the brakes! CDOT changed some speed limits in Cortez

In an effort to enhance safety and slow down traffic, the Colorado Department of Transportation lowered speed limits on U.S. Highways 491 and 160. The changes are concentrated near Montezuma-Cortez M...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

Aztec Restaurant closes after 50 years of down-home cooking

The beloved Aztec Restaurant, which has served up down-home cooking for decades, has closed amid mounting safety concerns and structural issues with the building, leaving 20 employees without a job. O...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Tri-Cities

Cortez prioritized fiber internet years ago. Where is the city at now?

The city of Cortez first leased its fiber operations to Montrose-based Clearnetworx in 2023, and it’s installing lines to more than 4,500 addresses within city limits. So far, over 1,100 people in Cor...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

Traffic opens after U.S. Highway 550 crash south of Purgatory Resort

A head-on crash on U.S. Highway 550 near Electra Lake, 4 miles south of Purgatory Resort, shut down all lanes of travel shortly after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Both lanes of traffic reopened at 2:15 p.m. ...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

From Morocco to Cortez: Abdel Berrada publishes novel inspired by his heritage

Inspired by his upbringing in Morocco, longtime Cortez resident Abdel Berrada recently published his first novel. To talk through some of its Moroccan cultural elements – and to sign books and mingle ...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

More endangered Mexican gray wolves are roaming the southwestern U.S., annual survey shows

ALBUQUERQUE – It is a ritual that takes place every winter – federal and state wildlife managers use remote cameras, scat collection, radio telemetry devices and helicopters to count Mexican gray wolv...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

Our view: Celebrating and defending public media

The Journal’s editorial board would like to call readers’ attention to tomorrow’s “Protect My Public Media Day,” (visit protectmypublicmedia.org), a day our public media colleagues are working to put ...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Opinion

We all want to feel safe again

Who feels safe right now? I don’t. I’m worried about my new business, kids, neighbors and country, and the Ukrainian people. This week, I wondered if others in Southwest Colorado also feel unsafe? I d...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Opinion

Federal spending freeze forces layoffs at La Plata County compost business

Table to Farm Compost, a La Plata County business that picks up household food scraps and turns them into carbon-sequestering soil for local farmers, announced Monday that it would eliminate two full-...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

Government of, by and for the people

When I was in high school, I had a friend named Mabel whose parents had escaped from communist China. When her mother died, Mabel became close to my mother. One day she asked my mother, “Mrs. Fox, wha...
DATE: Mar 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Opinion

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