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M-CHS joins Livewell Colorado’s efforts

Montezuma-Cortez is among a select group of school districts in Colorado that have accepted the LiveWell Colorado challenge to provide more freshly prepared school lunches that taste good an...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Ag expo launches

County’s agricultural community comes together for annual event

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

briefs

Durango center issues call to artists The Durango Arts Center is proud to announce the second one-week Artist-in-Residency program for contemporary and performing art. The residen...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

James Leroy Newby

Funeral services for longtime area resident James Leroy Newby will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, March 14, at the Lewis Arriola Community Cemetery. Chaplain Marvin Graves will officiate. Inte...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango looks at pot rules

Councilors considering banning sales downtown

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Republicans get behind the idea of Gardner taking Udall’s seat

Republicans are excited that Coloradans will soon get to know Cory Gardner, their best hope to unseat U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo. Udall also can’t wait for Coloradans to get to ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Scientists trying to aid cloud seeding

No one can control the weather, but scientists have done what they can to encourage snowfall in Colorado by cloud seeding for decades, and now they are working to improve it locally. ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Friends, peers remember advocate

Judith Aitken co-founded Women’s Resource Center

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mancos school board OKs state suit

The Mancos school board voted to become a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the state March 4. As a member of the Colorado Rural Schools Caucus, the Mancos school district woul...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

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 advance w...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Spring band concert

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Project finds apple thought extinct

Scattered in orchards around the county are varieties of apple trees that were largely forgotten until the co-founders of the Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project went looking. ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Agriculture