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Police: Kids left in car as adults fought

The Cortez Police Department responded to a couple of calls on Saturday, Aug. 29, that involved children left in cars while adults fought indoors. Officers responded to the 600 b...

DATE: Sep 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA tests water at spill site on U.S. 160

Property owner continues crusade

DATE: Sep 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sunflower gets international film festival

Audience at Cortez theater will help judge Manhattan Short Films

DATE: Sep 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Report: Cortez man wields knife for dibs on pork chop

A woman was reportedly held at knifepoint by a baby sitter on Sunday after she tried to eat a left over pork chop. A Montezuma County sheriff’s deputy responded to the cold distu...

DATE: Sep 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Two Re-1 board seats to remain vacant

Few qualify for November election

DATE: Aug 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education

Cortez man claims ‘illegal sentence’ in child sex case

A Cortez man convicted of attempted child sex assault has argued that the court imposed an “illegal sentence.” In a four-page motion filed in June, public defender Amy R. Smith re...

DATE: Aug 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Baxstrom is charged with attempted murder

Allegedly shot woman twice

DATE: Aug 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Veterans battle over parade route

In the end, small group will get an escort down Main Street

DATE: Aug 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

'Dodged a bullet'

Hickenlooper praises EPA response to mine spill during visit to Ute Mountain Ute mill

DATE: Aug 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

New high school opens

Buses and cars dropped students off at the new Montezuma-Cortez High School without much fanfare on Wednesday, as assistant principal Chris Kelley and Ute Mountain Ute education counselor Al...

DATE: Aug 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education