Mancos News

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The store was open for business at the time, but no injuries were reported. "It gutted the place.

A free legal clinic for parties who have no attorney will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month at the Mancos Public Library at 211 West First Street in Mancos.

Starting next fall, Southwest Colorado Community Collegex2019s regional law enforcement academy will base operations at the x201cWest Campusx201d between Mancos and Cortez.

Cortez Journal publisher Suzy Meyer has announced her decision to retire sometime this summer.Meyer joined the Cortez Newspapers staff as a part-time reporter on Sept.

A juvenile charged in the Weber Canyon Fire has been sentenced for starting the fire burning near Mancos last summer.

Longtime La Plata County resident, Pauline Lola Polly Evans, 93, died Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Mancos.

Senate Bill 191, passed in 2010, requires annual evaluations for all teachers and principles, based on statewide professional quality standards.

The Mancos Friends of the Library enjoyed a High Tea on Friday, April 26, while perusing books from the spring book sale at the Mancos Public Library.

COURTESY PHOTO Craig Stoffel's initial sign designs were criticized for looking generic and "national park-ish." The revisions feature more local touches.

Then, at a special meeting Monday, the town board voted unanimously for a six-month moratorium on commercial businesses more than 5,000 square feet.

Kirstin Brown, of Colorado Mine Reclamation and Kay Zillich, a BLM abandoned mine specialist, lead a media tour of smoldering coal fires on Menefee Mountain.

As of Monday, Jackson Gulch Reservoir's content was low, real low.This is the lowest I have seen it and I have been here 23 years, said Gary Kennedy, Superintendent Mancos Water Conservancy District.As of Monday, the content of Jackson Gulch was 2,350 acre feet or 23.5 percent, with an inflow at about 20 cubic feet per...

WASHINGTON x2014 When Easton LaChappelle met President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, the Mancos High School junior offered him two handshakes.One with his real arm, and another with a robotic one.Easton, 17, first came up with the idea of the brain-controlled, wireless arm x2014 which he shows off on a tall...

IT WAS spring cleaning day Monday at the Columbine Bar in Mancos. The Columbine, one of the oldest continuous operating bars in Colorado, since 1903, closed for the day Monday as owners deep cleaned the bar.

The Mancos Town Board is scheduled to meet Wednesday, April 24 at a special time, 6 p.m. The board is meeting early for a special presentation from the Colorado Intergovernmental Risk Sharing Agency.

The Mancos Valley Distillery will present Brett Pejsa, guitarist at large on Friday.Pejsa, a local singersongwriter will perform at Mancos Valley Distillery on Friday, April 26 at 7 p.m. Doors will open at 5 p.m.For more information contact 970 946-0229.

With that, a president who often laments a lifestyle that denies him the pleasure of driving eagerly hopped on the blue-and-silver bicycle in his dark blue suit and pedaled away, never mind that the machinery didn't take him anywhere.