Online fundraiser draws ire in Cortez

“You know this is pathetic,” one woman posted on GoFundMe.com. “And so is she.” Launched on behalf of Holly Hartman…

M-CHS demolition bid tops $2 million

Noyes, Suckla appointed to board

Minimum wage straps local workers

Montezuma County falls short on livable wage study; La Plata has it worse

City election process gets underway

seats up for grabs

Baby boy of the year

Parents Melanie Begaye and Kern Dutchie III get to know their newborn son, Keagon Dutchie, the first baby born in…

Jurors expected to decide verdict in knife attack

At a two-hour hearing last week, public defender Katie Whitney requested that Chief District Court Judge Doug Walker stay the…

Sheriff blotter

6:20 p.m. Made available to the public last week, deputies reported that a woman was arrested and charged with drug…

County plans to expand Internet, communication services

would expand Internet, communication services

Regional simulation will test response to outbreak of plague

Simulation depicts disease crisis

Animal shelter thanks sponsors for 12 Strays

Slavens True Value, the Wanacott’s, P&D Grocery, Cox Conoco, Pizza Hut, Montezuma Vet Clinic, Cortez Animal Bed and Breakfast, Shooter’s…

Sports Briefs

Boys Basketball Tuesday, Jan. 5 M-CHS vs. Navajo Prep, 7:30 p.m. Mancos vs. Bayfield, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8 M-CHS…

A Look Back at 2015: The year in sports

For Montezuma-Cortez wrestler Seager Oliver, the Dove Creek baseball team and the M-CHS swim team it was a season to…

A Look Back at 2015 Days in the sun

A Look Back at 2015: The Top 10 at The-Journal.com

1. Seven semis and 12 vehicles crash, shut down U.S. 491 A 19-vehicle accident shut down U.S. 491 from County…

Thieves target car washes

arrest suspect, seize cutting tools

The SAT pushes to reclaim supremacy

Competition with ACT test affects millions

Ballantine Fund plans new application process

Presentations will be made in both Cortez and Mancos on Tuesday, Jan. 5. Nonprofit organizations across Southwest Colorado interested in…

Facebook Top 10: The top posts at The Journal’s page

1. A defiant buck Cristina Jantz’s photo of a buck sitting beneath a sign welcoming hunters to the Rocky Mountain…

Enduring pain for science (and birds)

birders brave cold, snow for annual Cortez bird count

Community Calendar

Cortez Thursday, Dec. 31 Blondie’s annual New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball, 9 p.m. at Blondie’s, 45 E. Main St., Cortez.…

Storm strands vehicles on U.S. 491

Crews report county roads passable; residents dig out

Rob Englehart, of the Montezuma County road department, said that as of Monday morning, 95 percent of improved roads had…

Merry Moon: Rare full moon on Christmas Day

The Full Cold Moon seen through the star of a Christmas tree in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015.…

Christmas scene

The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saint at Empire and Sligo sponsored a live Nativity scene this…