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Colorado Parks and Wildlife offers grant

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering a one-time grant opportunity to agency partners that engage in hunting and angling outreach and education. The Partners in Outdoors Grants ...

Local weather readings

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Dolores Elementary surges forward in fall

Dolores Elementary School is off to a great start this year. Our students continue to grow academically and socially. The fall NWEA testing cycle is complete, and our results exce...

Dolores gears up for month of celebration

It's that time of year when you can shop local and win big money in Dolores Dollars for Christmas. Participating merchants are: Dolores Furniture and Gifts, The Depot, the Moose,...

Community Calendar

People are encouraged to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to news@cortezjournal.com. Items submitted less than two weeks in advan...

Cronk trial set for April

Ex-undersheriff faces 17 charges

Art show features Dolores middle, high school students

Students from Dolores Schools are showing off their artwork at the Dolores Public Library until the end of November. The creative expressions range from the abstract watercolor po...

Dolores 80 years ago

Taken from the Nov. 24, 1933 files of the Dolores Star Big County Relief Program On Tap Montezuma County's employment program was mapped out this week and work will beg...

Dolores 40 years ago

Taken from the November 30, 1073 files of the Dolores Star An Old-Fashioned Christmas In Dolores This Year An old-fashioned Christmas in Dolores will be launched Monday...

Arsonist pleads guilty to Roatcap fire, avoids jail

A Dolores man facing more than four decades in prison opted to plead guilty today to escape any jail time in connection to the 2012 Roatcap Fire. Accepted by District Court Judge ...

Forest Service calls truce in spat over ski-area water

The U.S. Forest Service surrendered last week in a fight about water rights. The agency told Congress that it no longer plans to force ski areas to turn over their water rights as...

A new roadside draw

Dolores is sporting some new agricultural yard art, courtesy of Mayor Val Truelsen. An early 20th century International Harvester Hay Press has found a new home next to the old Do...