{"id":49369,"date":"2021-01-12T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T14:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/elected-montezuma-county-officials-take-oath-of-office-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:46:54","slug":"elected-montezuma-county-officials-take-oath-of-office-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/elected-montezuma-county-officials-take-oath-of-office-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Elected Montezuma County officials take oath of office today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7dc92099-7569-4f65-b594-42a84308ce8f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Montezuma County Combined Courts.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma County Combined Courts.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Montezuma County officials elected in November will be sworn into office today at 9 a.m. by 22nd Judicial Judge Doug Walker.<\/p>\n<p>The newly elected officials are Montezuma County Commissioners Kent Lindsay and Joel \u201cJoe\u201d Stevenson, and 22nd Judicial District Attorney Matt Margeson.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will be aired online and can be viewed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UClimGv3tlW3_Yhb-Qw7zXpw\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montezuma County YouTube channel<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/judicial.webex.com\/mw3300\/mywebex\/default.do?nomenu=true&amp;siteurl=judicial&amp;service=6&amp;rnd=0.19117196595326247&amp;main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fjudicial.webex.com%2Fec3300%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26%26%26EMK%3D4832534b000000045e201d59b59687a473b50a5316f1bf5b212f2caf1a6cfb15a2d74b00af2c02cc%26siteurl%3Djudicial%26confViewID%3D182623599720409500%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAARyEWrrk_kB7GQyN_TJQX2sVPT2T0X3hSTCwZzTRAdLug2%26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or people may call in at 1-415-655-0001. The access code is 1453128285<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay will represent the District 2 area of Cortez; and Stevenson, the District 3 area of Mancos.<\/p>\n<p>Margeson has been the assistant DA and will replace former DA Will Furse, whose has reached his term limit. Furse has been hired to continue working as a prosecutor for the DA\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners will host a meet and greet for the newly sworn in commissioners today from noon to 2 p.m. The event will be hosted in the Board of County Commissioner Hearing Room, 109 West Main St., Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>greet candidates today at noon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49369","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=49369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87572,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49369\/revisions\/87572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49369"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}