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Category Archives: July 2021
Environmental assessment release for Salter project
The Dolores Ranger District of the San Juan National Forest has released the Salter Vegetation Management Project Final Environmental Assessment, Finding of No Significant Impact, and the Draft Decision Notice. The objection period opened June 23, for those who have … Continue reading
A special guy
Like the ripples when a stone is tossed in water, the impact of well-lived lives is more obvious close up, but they are far-reaching, if less easily seen, as time goes by. The late Russ Brown, my former boss as … Continue reading
Published in July 2021
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Remembering Russ Brown, a supporter of journalism
Russell Dewey Brown, former publisher of Cortez Newspapers, passed away in Farmington, New Mexico on May 13, 2021. He was 92. Russell was born to Dwight and Mildred Brown in 1929. After graduating from Cortez High School, he joined the … Continue reading
Published in July 2021
Diversion for most: Five locals charged with harassment in a January incident in Cortez will have those charges dropped if they complete the court’s requirements
And then there was one. Five of six suspects charged with harassing members of the Justice and Peace coalition in downtown Cortez in January have agreed to write letters of apology and enter a diversion program operated by the 22nd … Continue reading
Published in July 2021
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Pondering twists of fate: A local author finds that things have a way of working out
2020 was a year in which it was a little difficult to believe in happily-ever-afters. But Bethany Turner has never stopped believing in them and writing about them. The Cortez resident just released her first novel for Thomas Nelson/Harper Collins, … Continue reading
Published in July 2021
Left high and dry: A severe drought has definite and unfortunate impacts on wildlife
In mid-June, a 2-year-old male bear was wandering the streets of Dolores at night, tipping over trash bins that weren’t latched to find himself a meal. Dolores is the only town in Montezuma County to have an ordinance “requiring all … Continue reading