All incoming freshmen and their families may attend an orientation at Montezuma-Cortez High School on Tuesday, March 24, 6–8 p.m. The program is designed to provide information and assistan...

Road work on U.S. 491 south of Towaoc to the New Mexico state line is slated to resume starting Monday. The $13.7 million Colorado Department of Transportation project to rehabilitate and ...

In recent years, standardized educational testing has loomed large and often monstrous in the American psyche. Few people argue that there’s no valid need for objective assessments of student achieve...

Yes, it is insulting when The Cortez Journal is being used by unqualified individuals to peddle the reprobate politics of Obama and the Democratic party. This act of political subterfuge to use a form...

WASHINGTON – She burned the tapes. Had Richard Nixon burned his tapes, he would have survived Watergate. Sure, there would have been a major firestorm, but no smoking gun. Hillary Rodham wa...

I have been noticing the inclusion of one national columnist repeatedly being featured in your letters to the editor section. My assumption has always been that readers of your paper should be the one...

When I read the story in the Feb. 4 Journal titled, “Urban Blight Discussed,” I had to laugh. Dick Rudolph asked, “Are we that complacent that we don’t see what this looks like?” Well, it isn’t compla...

Montelores Baptist Church will again host the band “WestWind Connection” for a concert on Saturday, April 18 beginning at 5:30 p.m. The “WestWind Connection” is a Country Gospel band from N...

For The Cortez Journal All incoming freshmen and their families may attend an orientation at Montezuma-Cortez High School on Tuesday, March 24, 6–8 p.m. The program is designed t...

The large-scale debut of new online state tests at one of Colorado’s largest school districts was marked Monday by technical problems and a large number of students who chose not to take them. ...