Jessica Gonzalez
Position: Staff reporter

Ertel strives to deal with rise in cremations

Like many others, the funeral industry is undergoing a sea change as consumer demands have shifted with the times. People not only have less money to spend on a funeral in a post-...

Ertel strives to deal with rise in cremations

Like many others, the funeral industry is undergoing a sea change as consumer demands have shifted with the times. People not only have less money to spend on a funeral in a post-...

Cortez preservation board close to signature goal

Cortez is on the cusp of getting its first official historic district, as the local entity going after the designation reports it is just a few signatures shy of the required number of homeo...

Ertel strives to deal with rise in cremations

Like many others, the funeral industry is undergoing a sea change as consumer demands have shifted with the times. People not only have less money to spend on a funeral in a post-...

Car crashes into Vista Grande

An ordinary Friday afternoon at Vista Grande Nursing Home in Cortez was shaken up when a sedan crashed into a patient’s room on the front end of the building. While the patient wa...

Cortez Cultural Center appoints new director

New leader is aiming to freshen up programming in 2015

Fire tears through Summit Lake garage

A garage fire that started around 10 this morning at a Summit Lake subdivision home has temporarily displaced a Mancos family, and law enforcement crews are working to pinpoint the exact cau...

Summit Lake fire temporarily displaces Mancos family

A garage fire that started around 10 a.m. on March 25 at a Summit Lake subdivision home has temporarily displaced a Mancos family. Dolores and Mancos Fire Department crews respond...

Paradise Village faces sewer work

Project set to end in October

Crowd turns out for chance at Habitat house

A crowd sat quietly in the community room of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Cortez on Tuesday night, intently watching an informational slide show that outlined they can qualify for one of...

Back to basics

100-year-old Battle Rock Charter School starts 4-H group

Public meetings scheduled for proposed trike park

Neighbors within a three-block radius of Kiwanis Park on the northeast side of Cortez are encouraged to attend an informational meeting on the Kiwanis Club’s plans to develop the park into a...