Dolores Star

Distillery hosts the Porchlights

The Mancos Valley Distillery will host the Porchlights Friday, May 15. The doors open at 5 p.m., and music starts 8 p.m. The cover charge is $3. It all started on the Porch in 199...

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - Living

Reader spots funnel cloud in La Plata County

By Ann Butler Herald Staff Writer While it wasn't "Sharknado," a sighting of a funnel cloud did take place Tuesday morning in La Plata County. Herald reader ...

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

County plans fire ban update

Restriction on burn barrels would end

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

May the Texan influx ... begin

Southwest lifestyle publication is company's latest venture

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - Living

Federal-lands bill dies

Fears that measure would have led to closing public lands

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Fetal-homicide bill sinks in Colorado

DENVER - Democrats on a Colorado House committee Monday ended an effort to define an unborn child as a "person," which would have allowed prosecutors to file murder charges in attacks agains...

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Dove Creek man charged with girlfriend's murder

Autopsy reveals woman was strangled

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Community Calendar, May 7

Email announcements to news@cortezjournal.com and include "Community Calendar" in the subject field. Items submitted less than two weeks in advance will be less likely to be published. Entri...

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - Living

Briefs

Mother's Day Plant Sale scheduled for May 7 The Mother's Day Plant Sale will take place on Thursday, May 7 from 3-4:30 p.m. in front of the Dolores Elementary School. ...

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

College ranks high based on success of alumni

Pueblo Community College, which includes Southwest Colorado Community College, located between Mancos and Cortez, was recently ranked No. 3 in the nation after an analysis of two- and four-y...

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - Education

School News Good things happening at preschool

Teddy Bear Preschool and the Dolores Elementary kindergartens are aligning curriculums so that the preschoolers are better prepared to transition into the kindergarten in the fall. The presc...

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - Education

County posting Share the Road signs

The county road department will install 12 Share the Road signs accommodating OHV use on county roads. An ordinance passed in March allows OHVs to legally travel on all green-sign...

DATE: May 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

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