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Montezuma County Sheriff Dennis Spruell talks to Delta County Sheriff Fred McKee after a news conference announcing a lawsuit against Gov. John Hicken...
Spruell part of 2nd Amendment suit
DENVER – Montezuma County Sheriff Dennis Spruell stood with 17 other uniformed sheriffs Friday in a packed lobby of a Denver office building to announce a Second Amendment lawsuit against Gov. John...
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State Nation and World
Why worry? Less aid by Fed would point to recovery
Investors have grown nervous that the Federal Reserve will scale back its efforts to boost the U.S. economy sooner than many expected.
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Education
Silent Chaco sites call to SWOS students
Tall walls, dusty gusts and painstaking workmanship — replicating that of Pueblo masons a thousand years ago — are among the memories 10 students from Southwest Open...
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Agriculture
Sunday lecture topic is Puebloan astronomy
On Sunday, May 5, at 1 p.m. at the Anasazi Heritage Center near Dolores, the Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society and the Bureau of Land Management will...
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Business
Summit water will be turned on Friday, May 24
The board of directors of the Summit Reservoir and Irrigation Company announce that irrigation water will be turned into the delivery system on Friday, May 24.
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Obituaries
Beulah Fay Shepperd
Funeral services for lifelong area resident Beulah Fay Shepperd are pending with Ertel...
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Guest Columns
Wildfires may bring fast evacuations
After around 130 homes were evacuated...
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Heard Around the West
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MONTANA AND COLORADO
As the...
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Big thrills during a short season
The lower Dolores River below McPhee dam will not showcase its world-class rapids and canyons this year for boating enthusiasts.
But rafters need not despair. The Dolores...
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Ancient history gets new digs
No more artifacts moldering in the “Tin Shed.” No more storing archives in nooks and crannies. No more driving a long, narrow, winding road to learn what Mesa Verde...
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Mesa Verde visitor center
Mesa verde visitor center opening after more than a decade of fundraising, lobbying, etc. Offical grand opening is May 23 - we give folks a behind-the-scenes look before the festivities.Our appointment is 1 p.m.
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