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The Ignacio School District selected Chris deKay as the new superintendent, he will assume the role in July, replacing Rocco Fuschetto, who retires at the end of the 2020-2021 academic school year.
Jeremy Wade Shockley | Southern Ute Drum

Ignacio School District welcomes one of their own

Southern Ute Indian Tribe confirms discovery of Variant COVID-19

Grant Foster, owner of Rising Sun Traps, LLC holds a couple of Chesapeake blue crab.

Tribal member small business spotlight: Grant Foster

Ignacio Community Library Service Desk Manager, Ron Schermacher had the honor of cutting the ribbon on the new EV charging station in the heart of Ignacio’s Creative District, Friday, Feb. 12.

Ignacio acquires first electric vehicle charge station  ­

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Ignacio Mutual Aid Co-Founders, Precious and Trennie Collins, help load boxes of food that will be delivered and distributed to the Ute Indian Tribe in Fort Duchesne, Utah and other local Native communities. The food disbursement was a collaboration between Ignacio Mutual Aid, Ignacio Out and Equal Alliance, Four Corners Food Coalition, Good Samaritan in Cortez, Colo. and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
When Utes come together

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A bull elk harvested by Howard Richards Sr. adorns the Hall of Warriors in the Leonard C. Burch building. The elk mount recently had its fur cape replaced. The original fur had begun to deteriorate with age after 42 years. Howard’s daughter, Krista, harvested an elk and provided the new fur cape for her father’s mount.
Richards shares history of trophy bull elk 

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The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program welcomes all parents and caregivers

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De’Vra Richards, daughter of Lorena Richards is getting help from her big brother, Joseph Garcia as she builds her volcano for the SUIMA Family Night.
From the Eagle’s Nest

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Ignacio’s Solymar Cosio looks to shoot over Telluride’s Lulu Pumayalli (42) during SJBL play Saturday, Feb. 20, inside IHS Gymnasium.
Lady ’Cats log four wins in one week

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10 Years Ago: The Southern Ute Police Department volunteered some of its staff to help with the Reading Wednesdays afternoon activity at Ignacio Elementary School on Feb. 16, 2011. Reading Wednesdays is part of the Families in School program coordinated by the Pine River Community Learning Center for parents and family members. Officer John Schnelting reads aloud to a group of students while others in the school library listened to books read by participating parents like Agatha Bison. This photo was first published in the Feb. 25, 2011, issue of The Southern Ute Drum.
Many Moons Ago