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KSJD Newscast - February 22nd, 2016

  • The Dolores-Norwood road will not be a priority for funding with the U.S. Forest Service so long as its ownership is in limbo.
  • Readers of the Salt Lake Tribune in southeastern Utah soon will have to turn to their computers and smart phones.

The Dolores-Norwood road will not be a priority for funding with the U.S. Forest Service so long as its ownership is in limbo. That means standard maintenance twice a year rather than any new projects such as graveling. Dolores District Ranger Derek Padilla delivered that news to the Montezuma County commissioners on Monday. The county has said it will go to court to obtain an RS 2477 right-of-way for the road rather than accept a 99-year easement from the agency. Padilla said the Forest Service would like to see the county obtain jurisdiction over the route, but that 2477 ownership can’t be granted by the agency, and must be proven in court instead.

Readers of the Salt Lake Tribune in southeastern Utah soon will have to turn to their computers and smart phones. Beginning in March, physical copies of the newspaper will no longer be delivered in San Juan, Grand, or Kane counties, which include the cities of Monticello, Bluff, Moab, and Kanab. In addition, the print edition of the Trib will be available only on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays in 13 more of Utah’s 29 counties. The change has left small newspapers that are printed in Salt Lake and had been delivered to southern Utah – such as the San Juan Record and the Dove Creek Press in Colorado – scrambling to find alternate ways to get their own print editions printed and delivered.

Gail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.
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