Mary Shinn
Position: Staff reporter
Phone Number: (970), 375-4526

Girls improv team going to state finals

Four performed in Destination Imagination

Area farmers forming distribution co-op

Producers hope to reduce time and costs spent delivering produce

Willowtail Springs seeks artists

Preserve gets donor, reaches out to students

Good vibrations

Student explores how sound travels

A roaring Mancos Melt

Adults, youths learn the Charleston for annual fest;<br/> bed race title goes to Five Sheets, in the wind

Mancos OKs higher water rates to fund infrastructure

Mancos residents will open their May bills to find higher water rates after a town board's vote Wednesday. "Mancos customers receive a lot more water for less money than customer...

Ordinances on parking, RVs killed

Town Board unanimous in killing proposals

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. ...

Inmate chaplain provides light, liberation behind bars

Shelby Smith never saw himself as a minister, but now his favorite chair in the world is by the window in the jail where he meets with up to 20 inmates a week at the Montezuma County Jail. ...

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. ...

Radiometer being used in Mancos

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. ...

The Snowmakers

Meteorologists use radiometer in Mancos in an attempt to improve cloud seeding at Jackson Lake