History

More than 200 years ago, friars Dominguez and Escalante traveled north from Abiquiu, New Mexico, in search of a route to Spanish missions at Monterey in Alta California. Their travels are...

The Cortez Historic Preservation Board has received a grant that will fund a series of history-themed podcasts that it has been planning for months. During a meeting on Wednesday, board vice...

ALBUQUERQUE – A black Moroccan slave who explored present-day Texas, New Mexico and Arizona with Spanish conquistadors is credited with being the first person of African descent to enter the...

The Montezuma County Housing Authority’s application for a grant to restore the Calkins building was denied because of confusion about who owns the property, Linda Towle told city staff on...

Eighth-graders at Cortez Middle School will hold mock trials at the Montezuma County Combined Courthouse on March 8 and 12 to cap a study of genocide. The classes, led by eighth-grade language arts...

The Unlimited Learning Center will hold an open house on Feb. 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to provide information on education programs and to honor longtime teacher Audrey Allmon. Allmon has been...

A fundraising campaign has resulted in local libraries each receiving a newly published set of reference books on apple varieties. The “Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and...

At the Cortez historic preservation board’s first meeting of 2018, held on Wednesday, members voted in a new board chairwoman and vice chair. Linda Towle, who has served as chairwoman of the board...

I was born in Kansas in the Indian Territory in 1870. About five years of age, I came with my family to Colorado, where we lived for a short time. When I was fifteen years, old Dad got his wagon...

The Galloping Goose No. 5 will be running the rails again this winter in the Animas Valley. The second annual winter excursion will take place over two weekends in February on the Durango and...