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Sanitation district rejects billing proposal

Board members fear hybrid system looks like ‘making up our own numbers’

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sheriff Blotter

Wednesday, July 10 Dispatch advised officers to report to Mancos Valley Bank for vandalism. An employee of Mancos Valley Bank said that one of the bank’s windows was shattered and...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Six record highs fell in June

Forecasters have hopes for monsoon season

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Police Blotter

Wednesday, July 3 Police reported to the gas station at City Market in reference to an assault. A man was filling his gas tank and then walked over to some bushes and began urinat...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Auditor flags Re-1’s finances

DENVER — Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 was one of nine school systems statewide to set off alarms on an audit of its financial health, which was released Monday. The analy...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma-Cortez High Class of 1963 seeks grads

The M-CHS class of 1963 is having its 50th class reunion Aug. 15 and 16. There are several people who organizers are unable to locate. If anyone knows the location of any of these people — G...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education

City water diversion official after decades

Don’t be alarmed. It appears all is calm — with no more ripples — for a year-old City of Cortez water rights request to resolve an issue with generational roots dating back to an oversight e...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Lightning strike spot fires burn on Ute reservations

Last Thursday’s Mancos Canyon Fire on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation is estimated today at 1.25 acre with engines and a fire tender at the scene. The Pine Tree Canyon Fire on the Southe...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Parts of Morrison, Aspen Loop trails temporarily closed for timber sale

Approximately 1.5 miles of the Aspen Loop and Morrison Trail between FR 560 and FR 327 and between Forest Road 560 and Forest Road 372 north of Mancos will be periodically closed to all publ...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

A proposed alternative to ‘Wild and Scenic’

Compromise promises local control, no federal water right

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Forest Service to reduce fire restrictions

Thanks to the arrival of monsoonal weather patterns and lowering of fire danger, the San Juan National Forest will eliminate fire restrictions at higher elevations and ease fire restrictions...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

School-supply drive aims to aid county’s teachers and students

Residents of the Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 are invited to help teachers and students by purchasing school supplies. Although they are among the lowest-paid teachers i...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education

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