It's official: The Black Goat is no more

Editor: We have been speaking in low voices around the town of Dolores, about our friend, our watchman, the Black Goat. He has been absent, silent from the rocks above our small t...

Sequester hinders defense, harms morale

The Defense Department announced furloughs for around 680,000 of its civilian employees for 11 days through the end of this fiscal year, according to The Associated Press. Civilia...

Thanks for supporting the Chamber, graduating seniors

On behalf of the Dolores Chamber and Dolores High School, we want to thank these merchants and individuals for helping make our 2013 Spring Banquet a success. The proceeds go to scholarships...

Voters will still get what they asked for

On April 18, it was reported that the Dolores School District's BEST grant construction project is $2 million off the mark. Here are facts and what the school board and district have already...

SPC simply a group of concerned parents

Dear Editor: Within the 90-odd years that my family has been involved with school, many changes have come about some good and some not so good. And through those years, administra...

The true cost of rebuilding school facilities

The Dolores School District's facilities improvement project will cost more than expected. Last week, we faced the reality of the true cost of our building project. We needed to redesign the...

Have a fun, safe prom

New policy brings mixed emotions

Let's put an end to distracted driving

Dear Editor: Did you know that "distracted driving" was the 2009 word of the year according to Webster's Dictionary? But unfortunately, this is no passing fad. Distracted driving ...

Virtue vs. impurity

The moral excellence evident in my life as I consistently do what is right. The nineteenth-century writer J. G. Holland once said, "Reputation and character are widely different ...