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DENVER – A nonpartisan watchdog group launched a three-state campaign to end waste of natural gas on public lands. Michael Surrusco, senior policy analyst with Taxpayers for Common Sense, said that...
DATE: Aug. 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
Several poor-performing gas wells north of Narraguinnep Reservoir are being plugged. In 2009, the Bill Barrett Corp. installed wildcat wells on private land north of Road X to tap natural gas...
DATE: Aug. 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
IGNACIO – On the topic of public safety in tribal communities, U.S. attorneys had questions rather than answers for law-enforcement officials, prosecutors and victim-assistance workers attending...
DATE: Aug. 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Ute Mountain Ute tribe may benefit from wind, solar and hydro-electric power, according to participants at a forum on renewable energy last week in Towaoc. The three-day event featured...
DATE: Aug. 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
Data collected by the Cortez Planning and Building department since 2012 shows there’s been a roughly 513 percent increase in code-enforcement actions over the past three years as the city tightens...
DATE: Aug. 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
The status of the coaching staff at Montezuma-Cortez High School was uncertain Monday after head coach Dave Wagner announced that three assistant coaches had resigned. According to Wagner,...
DATE: Aug. 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: High School Sports
Ballantine Communications, Inc. will soon consolidate The Cortez Journal, Dolores Star and Mancos Times into one newspaper, named The Journal. Our local journalists and advertising representatives...
DATE: Aug. 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
WASHINGTON – On Sept. 5, 2014, Russian agents crossed into Estonia and kidnapped an Estonian security official. Last week, after a closed trial, Russia sentenced him to 15 years. The reaction? The...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
In the first six years of a program that provided long-acting, reversible contraception – primarily intrauterine devices and implants – to low-income teens and women in Colorado at little or no...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Grant Smith, owner of GST Liquors in Dolores, has donated $10,000 to help keep the Cortez Cultural Center afloat as it wades through its budget crisis. It’s the first sizable donation the nonprofit...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
Last weekend, Ute war veterans organization celebrated their 2015 Pow Wow Day at the ceremonial grounds at the Ute Casino in Towaoc. This year, the veterans also invited Montezuma County Volunteers...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
