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Keeping the ancients warm: Ancestral Puebloans created turkey feather blankets

I love seeing turkeys in ponderosa woods, moving slowly uphill like priests absorbed in morning prayers. At twilight, they are dark shapes seeking acorns and insects, always leav...

DATE: Feb 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Erin McKay: Will we protect our democracy?

In 2017, a handful of individuals were arrested in the Hart Senate Office Building for reading scripture aloud. They were protesting the GOP-backed tax bill, which they felt was unfair to th...

DATE: Feb 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Smokestacks come down: The end of an era in Page, Arizona

On the morning of Dec. 18, massive simultaneous explosions leveled three huge 775-foot-tall smokestacks at Page, Arizona. It was the end of an era for the Navajo Generating Stati...

DATE: Feb 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Letter: Let’s get past the hateful, vindictive attitudes

When will Americans get past hateful, vindictive attitudes that have taken place since Donald Trump was elected president? In a recent article (Jan. 13, “It is time to stop the Cortez parad...

DATE: Feb 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Looking Back: The early days and life of Montezuma County

Editor’s note: The following column is based on excerpts from a manuscript by Dora Pederson that was read at a Women’s Club Meeting in 1934.By The Montezuma County Historical Society ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Looking back

David Brooks: Trump ignites war within the church

“Over the last 72 hours, I have received multiple death threats and thousands upon thousands of emails from Christians saying the nastiest and most vulgar things I have ever heard toward my ...

DATE: Jan 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

In January, Earth moves fastest around the sun

Greetings, stargazers. January is the month that the Earth moves the fastest around the sun. Or looked at from our perspective, the sun moves faster through the sky in January. E...

DATE: Jan 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Amanda McNeill: Time to stop parade of intimidators

We the people of Cortez need the help of our City Council, our elected representatives. For months on end now, we have endured the unendurable “parade” of insurrectionists up and down Main ...

DATE: Jan 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Duane “Chili” Yazzie: Haaland at Interior would offer real balance

The concerns of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, the Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico, Power the Future and the Republican Party of New Mexico on the nomination of Deb ...

DATE: Jan 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Poinsettias can be saved, if you put the work in

As you are reading this, Beth may be taking down the Christmas tree. She is no Scrooge, by any means. Our house has been full of lights and fir boughs, and our mantle is scattere...

DATE: Jan 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sheriff Update

Surprising and subtle effects of COVID-19

I was watching “The Crown” the other evening and for a split second thought, “Nobody’s wearing masks, and they’re all gathering too closely together!” It startled me that I’m so used to livi...

DATE: Jan 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Writers on the Range: When water dries up, it can be deadly

In Oregon, the Klamath Basin wildlife refuges have fallen into their winter silence now. The huge, clamorous flocks of geese that fill the sky during migration have moved south. Last summe...

DATE: Jan 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns