A decision on a plea in a misdemeanor charge against Montezuma-Cortez School District Superintendent Tom Burris was postponed Tuesday despite the judge’s comments that the case had been “languishing for quite some time.” And the United States has filed a lawsuit against two men and other “unknown individuals” who they say illegally fenced Forest Service land in the Chicken Creek area near Mancos.

Weather in Cortez and Southwest Colorado has been on somewhat of a roller-coaster ride of late.

The Montezuma County commissioners have given the go-ahead to contracting with a Colorado firm to conduct a detailed analysis of operations of the sheriff’s office starting in January.

Montezuma-Cortez School District Superintendent Tom Burris is thrilled by recent news about Lewis-Arriola Elementary School, and says there’s a lot more to be happy about in the Re-1 district.

Whether a Dollar General store will eventually be built on Road N just off Highway 145 in Montezuma County remains up in the air.

Montezuma County attorney Ian MacLaren is leaving that position to become the Montezuma County Court judge.

Just 1 percent of all the traffic crashes that happened in Cortez during the five-year period from 2018 through 2022 involved fatalities.

Montezuma County voters were generous to the Cortez Fire Protection District and two school districts on Election Day. However, they were stingy with the sheriff’s office.

The Montezuma County commissioners and Sheriff Steve Nowlin clashed over the sheriff’s budget at a special meeting Thursday.

Women ranging in age from their 20s to their 70s spoke in support of a popular doctor at Wednesday night’s meeting of the Southwest Health System board in Cortez.