Lindsay Garcia, 12, digs into a rib at Serious Texas Bar-B-Q on June 27. The eatery is one of three Durango-area businesses on the annual 50 Colorado Companies to Watch list. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Durango fireworks light up the sky over town during the Fourth of July celebration. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Scot Davis with the Durango Fire Protection District places a 6-inch mortar into its tube as firefighters set up for the Durango fireworks show on July 4 at Greenmount Cemetery. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
A child dances just before Durango’s Fourth of July parade down Main Avenue on July 4. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
A group of cyclists on penny-farthings rode in Durango’s Fourth of July parade down Main Avenue on July 4. They appeared in support of their friend Neil Hannum, the Chip Peddler, who was recently injured in a bicycle-vehicle crash. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Stran Mietchen, 2, had his face painted for Durango’s Fourth of July parade down Main Avenue on July 4. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
The color guard leads the Fourth of July parade down Main Avenue on July 4. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Veteran Lynn Jack waters pigs at the Veterans Homestead Project near Breen on June 3. The project offers internships and workshops in regenerative agriculture to veterans. While it is not therapy, the work can be therapeutic. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
It takes a lot of “elves,” to prepare for Music in the Mountains three-week festival every year. Steve Blaylock, longtime stage manager with the festival, climbs high to hang stage lighting in the Purgatory Resort tent on June 6. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Protesting July 6 at Santa Rita Park in response to recent shootings of Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge police officers and Philandro Castile by a Falcon Heights, Minnesota, police officer are, from left, Mekayla Smith, Molly Wieser and Ellen Paul at U.S. Highway 550/160 and Santa Rita Drive. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
La Plata County Sheriff’s Office investigators search July 7 for evidence in the continuing investigation of Dylan Redwine’s death. Searchers worked about 11 miles up Middle Mountain Road northeast of Vallecito Reservoir. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
La Plata County Sheriff’s Office investigators search July 7 for evidence in the continuing investigation of Dylan Redwine’s death. Searchers worked about 11 miles up Middle Mountain Road northeast of Vallecito Reservoir. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Dan and Shawna Kellum, visiting from Louisiana, stop on July 5 to check out a stuffed bear guarding the entrance of A Shared Blanket, 104 E. Fifth St. The business had its iconic entryway taxidermy sheep on a wooden frame stolen again. So, Al Harper, owner of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, offered his stuffed bear as a temporary replacement. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Isaha Casias of Jackson & Jackson Building Services sands the side of a building next to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad depot Friday in preparation for repainting. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
Glass artist Signe Studdard discusses her work with people browsing the booths of the Art on the Animas Arts and Crafts Show held July 9 in Santa Rita Park. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
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