{"id":23807,"date":"2025-01-30T04:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T11:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-schools-announce-two-hour-weather-delay-for-thursday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:42:55","slug":"montezuma-county-schools-announce-two-hour-weather-delay-for-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-schools-announce-two-hour-weather-delay-for-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County schools announce two-hour weather delay for Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c97df3d8-41c4-55b9-ab09-e204cbf861e3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"473\" alt=\"Heavy snow in Cortez fell overnight. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Heavy snow in Cortez fell overnight. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma-Cortez, Dolores and Mancos school districts have announced a two-hour delay to the start of school on Thursday because of extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma-Cortez Superintendent Tom Burris contacted <em id=\"emphasis-ae470b7b2d305573df1936d655a9c5fa\">The<\/em> <em id=\"emphasis-91bc502eb6b3159f658aa95c13d9ccbe\">Journal<\/em> about the delay, and the district\u2019s website shared that schools and buses will run on a two-hour delay of their normal schedule. Southwest Open School will have a two-hour delay as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing a two-hour delay due to slick roads, black ice and abundance of care for our students and safety,\u201d Mancos Superintendent Todd Cordrey told <em id=\"emphasis-b70f3188a0b826be79084fba81aff53d\">The<\/em> <em id=\"emphasis-566e33cbc53707cf7daf3f1b793ca22c\">Journal<\/em> in an email.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Dolores school district\u2019s website, the preschool will have a delayed start at 9:30 a.m. and the middle school and high school will start at 9:45 p.m. The elementary school will start at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing at 9:20 p.m., there has been no formal announcement of a delayed start time for schools in Dove Creek. Burris shared that Children\u2019s Kiva Montessori School and Battle Rock Charter School were notified of Montezuma-Cortez\u2019s delay, but there has been no formal announcement whether these schools will also have a delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>districts cited the extreme weather <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[386,21,44,103,155,28,83,392,60,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-schools-re-4a","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-mancos-school-district-re-6","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78270,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions\/78270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}