History

State accepting nominations for Centennial Farm award

Families who have owned and operated their Colorado farm or ranch for 100 years or more are encouraged to submit a nomination to receive a Colorado Centennial Farms award. Selecte...

DATE: Mar 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Agriculture

County OKs grant request for flume

Montezuma County commissioners sanctioned a McElmo Flume grant application Monday. If approved, all of the required financing would be available to start renovating the dilapidated waterway....

DATE: Mar 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mancos Melt revises its schedule

The Fifth Annual Mancos Melt is looking to help even more people shake off the winter blues with kid-friendly events including the introduction of carnival and an old time movie night. ...

DATE: Mar 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Come Back to My Valley: I've been working on the railroad

All of us know there was a railroad that went through Mancos, but we're fuzzy when it comes to the details. The Denver & Rio Grand Southern started in Ridgway and went to Telluri...

DATE: Mar 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Governor honors Ute architecture

Ute Mountain Utes among the groups honored by historic preservation award

DATE: Feb 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Historical Fund hosts roundtable

RSVP for the 2014 Winter roundtable in Dolores at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the Anasazi Heritage Center, 27501 Colorado 184. History Colorado State Historical Fund (SHF) s...

DATE: Jan 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: DS - News

History takes us back a simpler, often harsher time

Mary Ann Ott comments on a column that I wrote a few weeks ago about the library. She says: "When I was on the library board, Mattie Holston and her daughter, along with Edith Ell...

DATE: Jan 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Ancestral Puebloans may have an environmental lesson for us

Is demise of the ancients a caution to today's world?

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Ancestral Puebloans may have an environmental lesson for us

Is demise of the ancients a caution to today's world?

DATE: Dec 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Looking back at a family man, a family newspaper

A true newsman, Larry Pleasant ran the Dolores Star from 1960 to 1977, and the Dove Creek Press between 1961 and 1968. He died Nov. 2 at age 92. His son Andrew spoke to...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - Living

Dolores 40 years ago

Taken from the Dec. 7, 1973 pages of the Dolores Star New Sheriff In County Montezuma County has a new Sheriff selected from among eight applicants at Monday's applican...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - Living

Dolores 80 years ago

Taken from the Dec. 8, 1933 files of the Dolores Star Editorial comments The man that only tries to fool the people occasionally does better than the man who works at i...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

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