The weather service says an atmospheric river reaches the Four Corners this weekend. Its stated concern is rock, mud and debris coming off hillsides still saturated from last weekend's rain, rather than the rivers.
The congressman has not taken a position on the proposed national conservation area on the lower Dolores. On Medicaid, he said he wants to preserve the program but called its spending growth unsustainable.
Four Cortez locations are taking blankets, water, hay and more for flooded Navajo Nation communities and Bluff. Some close as soon as Wednesday.
About 24 percent of the county's 20,310 mail ballots were back as of Monday night. The office says anything posted from here may not arrive by the 7 p.m. Election Day deadline.
The Dolores River peaked at 6,140 cubic feet per second early Saturday, up from about 132 late in the summer. Mountain moisture sensors are reading five to six times the normal level for October.
A short survey and a pin-drop map will feed the city's capital improvement planning. The announcement also says some General Fund projects, including the Welcome Center roof, are on hold.
The Planning and Zoning Commission holds two public hearings Tuesday — one on letting council designate historic properties by resolution instead of ordinance, one on letting commissioners attend by video. It is the first P&Z agenda the city has posted on its public portal this fall.
Cortez Police Department incident reports from Oct. 22 through Oct. 28: a man stunned with a Taser after police said he came at an officer with a pencil, a woman accused of choking a man on West Main Street, a foot chase through downtown alleys and a camping citation on a 31-degree night.
The Board of Trustees and the Community Center Advisory Board will sit down together on November 23 to talk about the center's operations, finances, facility needs and future planning. The town says no formal action is expected.
Montezuma County Sheriff's Office incident reports from Sept. 6 through Oct. 26: bears in a Dolores preschool's dumpster, two arrests near Towaoc after a suspected fentanyl find, a DUI arrest after a Highway 160 crash and a man missing since early October.
Commissioners want a state highway access permit and a wildfire mitigation plan in hand first. Neighbors told the board the road and its junction with Highway 184 cannot take more traffic.
Every member who spoke at Tuesday's listening session came back to the same two words — sustainable and deferred. The parks master plan runs to July 2027, with a survey and community meetings in January.
Ordinance 1371 passed 7-0 on second reading with no fee attached for 2026. Council also awarded a $74,811.55 asbestos contract and two more airport deals, and heard from swim and youth-sports families about the pool.
The Bears' 3-0 win on Tuesday was their eighth league match without a loss. The league tournament follows on Friday and Saturday.
The No. 10 seed lost at home to No. 23 Delta on Wednesday night in the first round of the Class 3A tournament. Montezuma-Cortez finishes 12-4 with the 3A Intermountain League title.
Saturday afternoon's 8-Man Mountain league game at Norwood was decided by a field goal's worth of points. Dolores is 4-4 for the year.
The Democratic candidate for county commissioner says opponents of the battery site are spreading misinformation. A neighboring business says it's being unfairly targeted. Republican Rodney Cox, who said last month he was "against everything" about the project, now says he won't decide until he sees the plan.
The measure on Montezuma County ballots would cut income tax for taxable income under $500,000 and raise it above that, for an estimated $2 billion a year. A second measure, Proposition 136, would cap the rate where it is.
Cortez Police Department incident reports from Oct. 16 through Oct. 21: a woman accused of kicking an officer at the hospital, a man kicked in the face outside a gas station, a shove near a church and a string of trespass arrests at City Market and Walmart.
The department is joining the federal drug take-back day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pills, patches and sealed liquids are accepted; syringes and illegal drugs are not.
KSJD reported that District Judge William Furse will let another judicial officer hear the punitive contempt case over a wood-waste pile on Road T. A setting conference is scheduled for October 22.
