Cortez News

The Cortez Cemetery is apologizing to family members after ornaments, flowers and figurines were removed from grave markers this fall.

VALLECITO LAKE, Colo. Donna and Jim Lawrence have been keeping a Vallecito tradition alive since purchasing Virginia's Steakhouse & Lodge in March this year.

Event: ' Sentimental Journey @ White Walls, S.F.' White Walls Presents: Sentimental Journey New works by Jesse Hazelip Opening Reception: Saturday, January 9, 2010, from 7-11pm. Through: January 30, 2010 and open to the public.

Mr. Martin's idea, enabled by a rotten economy that made his free time greater and his potential labor pool deeper, is now manifest in his new business delivering live, potted Christmas trees that are taken away once the toys have been unwrapped and, possibly, already broken, and the New Year's confetti has been swept away.

Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 10:25 p.m. Read more: State , Crime , Cortez , Colorado , First Degree Murder CORTEZ, Colo.

In Cortez, Colo., a boy shot himself in the calf while he was playing with a loaded pistol that his folks had hidden behind their Christmas tree .

Authorities say a 12-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the leg while playing with a loaded pistol his parents had hidden behind the family Christmas tree.

Navajo Fred Martinez identity cost him his life. At age 16, he was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was murdered in Cortez, Colorado.

The not-so-flattering painting of Joseph P. Kennedy II is on display at a Cortez, Colo., art gallery after a dispute over wind turbines on Navajo land.

"Having a deaf dog isn't all bad," the Wife said during the last thunderstorm. Jasper was snoozing contentedly while the thunder roared.

DOLORES, Colo. Usually, this time of year marks the start of the slow season for Gail and Vic Vanik, owners of Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery, a full-service retail garden center at 26650 Road P, halfway between Dolores and Cortez.

Wine maker Joe Buckel stirs a vat of fermenting grapes while Jesus Castillo, right, looks on at the Sutcliffe vineyards in McElmo Canyon near Cortez, Colo.

It is fitting that, on the day after the International Transgender Day of Remembrance , the film Two Spirits will have its world premiere at the Starz Denver Film Festival in Denver, Colorado.

On the surface, it may seem as if the story of Fred Martinez, a transgendered teenager brutally murdered in Cortez, Colo., has been told countless times.

Barbara Bridges has her hands in a lot of philanthropic pies: In addition to the film festival, she'll be honored by PeaceJam.

Telluride's Galleries Show Art From Around-the-World TELLURIDE - " The First Thursday Telluride Art Walk continues its monthly tradition tonight, with guest appearances from Pastel Society of America Hall of Fame honoree Sally Strand and Greg Barnes , a three-time attendee at the summertime Mountain Village Culinary Arts Festival, here with new ...

Originally published November 6, 2009 at 7:45 p.m., updated November 6, 2009 at 9:50 p.m. A man from Cortez, Colo., was arrested Friday afternoon after fleeing a trooper who was trying to stop him for speeding.

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CORTEZ The Montezuma Community Economic Development Association, or MCEDA, has some legs under it only a year after launching itself.

Morley Ballantine, 84, chairman and editor of The Durango Herald whose roots were in a Midwestern childhood and a newspaper-publishing family, died Saturday, Oct.