2017

January 2017

• Ten questions for Anne Hillerman: The best-selling author and daughter of Tony Hillerman discusses his legacy and more

• Toxic transportation?: Proposed routes for hauling uranium from mines near the Grand Canyon are sparking tribal opposition

• Winter’s Tales (Prose and Cons)

• Hibernation ends for Bears Ears: Obama makes a long-awaited monument proclamation, sparking mixed responses

• Presidential proclamation inspires a protest

February 2017

• Antibiotic resistance a growing threat

• Fees increase at Mesa Verde

• The Trump years: How will they affect the region?

• Khan’s latest is informative, provocative (Prose and Cons)

March 2017

• Rescued

• This land is whose land?

• Frozen

• Star-struck

• My alternative life story

• The Great Wall

• Dialed up

• Once upon a time in Berkeley. . .

• Repeat performance: Ute youth group scores with second film, produced as part of project to address recidivism

• Homelessness in Cortez: How it happens

• Deadly dozen (Prose and Cons)

• Once upon a time in Berkeley. . .

• Making lyric mud in Todos Santos

April 2017

• Anne Hillerman sings in ‘Song of the Lion’ (Prose and Cons)

• The coal conundrum: The Navajo Nation weighs the cost of saving power-plant, mining jobs

• The big picture: Graham documents people and places through wet-plate photography

• Muddy water: A former county commissioner questions actions taken in regards to an out-of-county ditch

• Here it comes! Dolores River to see a big, long rafting spill

May 2017

• Repeal, reduce or retain?: Bears Ears, Canyons of Ancients to be scrutinized

• An automatic reflex

• Start spreading the News (Prose and Cons)

• A bouquet of perennial poems

• Assessment effort seeks to improve public health at the local level

• Boxes full of nature’s bounty: The Southwest Farm Fresh Co-op launches a CSA program

• Free Press takes seven awards in Top of the Rockies contest

June 2017

• Here comes the sun: Solar Barn Raising group helps homeowners install their own systems

• Too close for comfort?: Proximity to the White Mesa uranium mill worries Ute Mountain tribe

• Grann’s ‘Killers’ chronicles murders of the Osage Indians (Prose and Cons)

• My interaction with the wilderness

• San Juan County School District raises eyebrows with vote opposing Bears Ears

July 2017

• Transforming a river corridor: An ambitious partnership has battled invasive plants along 180 miles of the Dolores, providing job training for young people in the process

• Filling in the gaps: A new book fleshes out the Bears Ears story with native testimony

• Coal-fired furor: A power plant wins a lease extension amid a haze of controversy

• Worth the weight (Prose and Cons)

August 2017

• Rose invents a new genre with ‘Thief’ (Prose and Cons)

• Horoshko recognized in National Federation of Press Women contest

• Prickly situation: The county’s stance on federal lands acquisitions may complicate access issues at little-known Yucca House

• Fine lines: For the 2nd time, a federal judge rejects voting districts in San Juan County, Utah, as racially based

September 2017

• Getting down and dirty: The Montezuma Land Conservancy tackles a new challenge: farming

• An oasis on Cortez’s Main Street: The saga of how a tiny park came to be, thanks to the Lions Club

• What would it take to bring broadband to Montezuma County? And do we really even need it?

• Gothic ramblings

October 2017

• Under wraps: Chaco had a beautiful space ready to showcase stunning artifacts. What went wrong?

• Indigenous Peoples Day is declared in Farmington, N.M.; Salt Lake to vote Oct. 3

• A fine Navajoland whodunnit

November 2017

• Nativity

• Would you pay $70 to visit a national park? Should you?

• A growing movement: Volunteers revitalize a community garden at Cortez’s Rec Center

• Zinke wants to sink master leasing plans: Interior Department cites need to reduce burdens on oil and gas drilling

December 2017

• Johnson mixes humor and intrigue in ‘Western Star’

• Dividing lines: New voting-district maps prompt controversy in San Juan County

• Bluff becomes a town — officially: The recent vote will mean changes, but most residents welcome them

• Monument rollback: Trump dices Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante into five tracts; Utahns cheer but lawsuits begin

• Fish out of water: A study shows climate change will shrink trout habitat in the upper Dolores River watershed

• Women’s March for Unity draws 500 in Cortez