The Conquistador Women's Golf Association will have its annual season kick-off dinner Tuesday, April 16, at the Cortez Elks Lodge. A social hour kicks things off at 6:30 p.m. and dinner st...

Ute Mtn. Rec. high school basketball tourney The Ute Mountain Recreation Center in Towaoc is hosting its high school boys and girls basketball tournament the weekend of April 20-21. It's do...

The Ute Mountain Rodeo team started its spring season with their first rodeo in Cortez on March 30-31. On April 6-7, the team traveled to Kiowa for competition. Day one results...

Editor: So many letters about this law, or that law, being unconstitutional. It goes back 200-plus years, and the fact remains, any law is constitutional until and unless the courts - ultim...

Editor: It's an ill wind blowing up McElmo Canyon, spreading a sickness like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Perhaps we can all recover from the rants from the canyon if we were provid...

Editor: Sheriff Spruell has publicly stated his personal opinion regarding gun legislation that recently became Colorado law. I have no disagreement with his right to his opinion that this ...

Editor: While Allen Crandell may have read Jim Skvorc's article on Bradley Manning with approval, I read Mr. Crandell's letter with dismay. During my years working in the aerospace business...

Editor: Interviewers are expressing amazement over the actions of the young men who pursued and took down the slasher on that Texas university. They want to know why those men ran toward th...

Editor: I want to thank Sheriff Spruell for his integrity and for honoring his oath of office. And I would like to share this quote from Benjamin Franklin, who said, "Democracy i...

Editor: Take time to go online and read the March 2013 issue of National Geographic, titled, "America Strikes Oil." Then ask yourself, is this the direction in which I want to support my co...