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CMS now has a school garden

A school garden is born! With only a few weeks left until students once again fill the halls of the Cortez Middle School, assembly of the new school garden is underway. On Tuesday, Aug. 6, a...

DATE: Aug 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Help for veterans always available

My wife, Sandi, and I recently returned from a trip to Fairbanks, Alaska to visit our son, Warren, who is stationed at Fort Wainwright with the U.S. Army. He and his wife, Bethany, were havi...

DATE: Aug 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Veterans Forum

America’s (fleeting) Arab Spring

It’s a classic case of déjà vu, and you get that sinking, ominous feeling. And then a (momentarily) optimistic one. The sinking feeling: reports about a new al-Qaida terrorist thr...

DATE: Aug 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Keep Colorado a land of opportunity

Summer's winding up with the start of back-to-school sales. Delicious Western Slope produce is showing up at the grocery stores and roadside stands. The last wave of summer visitors is cramm...

DATE: Aug 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Life in the Legislature

Keep Colorado a land of opportunity

Summer’s winding up with the start of back-to-school sales. Delicious Western Slope produce is showing up at the grocery stores and roadside stands. The last wave of summer visitors is cramm...

DATE: Aug 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Life in the Legislature

Wildfire was just the beginning

Over a year after the smoke was in the air from the Weber Fire, most Montezuma County residents have probably forgotten about the intense fire that burned all of Menefee Mountain east of Man...

DATE: Aug 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Columnists

They beat me to the punch

I had planned to gently explain to Larry Berger the errors in his diatribe against Sheriff Spruell. However, Bud Garner, Charles Thompson and many others have done the job for me, forcefully...

DATE: Aug 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

‘The community needed him to succeed’

As the former sheriff prior to Dennis Spruell, I wanted to correct Pat Requena’s assumptions in her recent letter. It surprised me that a former CPA would publish financial-based business as...

DATE: Aug 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

A serious discussion on race — not!

LOS ANGELES — Is it possible to have a s-e-r-i-o-u-s discussion on race in America? In light of some of the reaction to President Barack Obama’s comments on race in the aftermath ...

DATE: Jul 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

First, we are Christians

What do you think is the greatest quote in American history? This is what I think. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood

Pika may signal change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

High-altitude pika may signal climate change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

CMS now has a school garden

Help for veterans always available

America’s (fleeting) Arab Spring

Keep Colorado a land of opportunity

Keep Colorado a land of opportunity

Wildfire was just the beginning

They beat me to the punch

‘The community needed him to succeed’

A serious discussion on race — not!

First, we are Christians

Pika may signal change

High-altitude pika may signal climate change

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