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Ancient history gets new digs

New Mesa Verde Visitor Center brings it all to one place

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Spruell part of 2nd Amendment suit

Sheriffs sue Gov. Hickenlooper for signing ‘unconstitutional’ gun bills

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Summit water will be turned on Friday, May 24

The board of directors of the Summit Reservoir and Irrigation Company announce that irrigation water will be turned into the delivery system on Friday, May 24. Shareholders shoul...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

Tri-State lobbies gov. to veto renewables mandate

DENVER – The company that supplies coal-powered electricity to rural Colorado is waging a media campaign to try to convince Gov. John Hickenlooper to veto a renewable energy bill. ...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

Program on saving seeds Wednesday at Let It Grow

The Montezuma Valley Farm Hub will host Bill McDorman of Native Seeds/SEARCH, a nonprofit organization promoting seed conservation, on genetic diversity and growing and saving seed on Wednes...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

Local ag producers may qualify for low-interest emergency drought loans

Farmers and ranchers in Montezuma, Archuleta, San Miguel, La Plata, and Dolores counties may be eligible for low-interest emergency loans to help cover losses they sustained as a result of t...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

Tasty transformations

Blondie’s and Dry Dock — now Addison’s — get facelifts

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

Assessed property values dip

Homeowners across Montezuma County received notices in the mail a few weeks ago, stating the revised value of their properties. For the majority, values were down. Co...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

Silent Chaco sites call to SWOS students

Tall walls, dusty gusts and painstaking workmanship — replicating that of Pueblo masons a thousand years ago — are among the memories 10 students from Southwest Open School brought back from...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education

Harris wins Knights of Columbus scholarship

Cortez Knights of Columbus Council 4209 have awarded the Knights Memorial Scholarship for this year to Emily Lora Harris. Emily is a 2013 graduate of Dolores High School and is c...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education

Allsup to graduate

Maeve Allsup of Cortez, a high school senior at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, will graduate on May 26. She will attend American University in Washington, D.C., ...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education

A long, hard road to a worthwhile goal

Jaye Jones-Daves, 49, has had to overcome many obstacles in her path to her Associates of Arts degree in business management. After working part-time jobs, she decided she needed to get an e...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Education