Photos of the week

Katherine Kronwall holds some of her medals at the Durango Community Recreation Center on Dec. 2. She has won several senior swimming races at events across the country. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Durango High School senior Kyle Kirkpatrick has a 4.13 grade-point average and hopes to play college basketball while pursuing a degree in computer science. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald

As a reminder of the coming giving season, a display of wrapped gifts is stacked in a child’s wagon Dec. 6 in front of Magpies Newsstand on Main Avenue. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald

Durango’s Stephanie Basye collected one of her game-high 14 rebounds and put the ball back up off the glass and through the hoop for 2 points just before the halftime buzzer of Durango’s Dec. 6 home win against Piedra Vista. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Tristan Martinez rolled out of trouble and got the better of Lane Rightmire on Dec. 6 at Durango High School. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Durango’s Main Avenue is decorated for the holidays on Dec. 3. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Dawn Mulhern, associate professor and chairwoman of the Anthropology Department at Fort Lewis College, leads Miller Middle School seventh-graders in an exploration of evolution and adaptation. Working at the second of three stations, the students are learning how, using only a skull, they can determine whether the primate walked on two or four legs. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald

Paul Tumey props up an inflatable figure Dec. 8 on the roof of Pet Haus in the 1400 block of Main Avenue as he and co-worker Jake Wosje decorate the business for the holidays. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald

The best part of decorating cookies is eating the results, as Olivia Gomez-Cruz, 10, discovers Dec. 10, during the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado holiday party. The event was held at the Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Colin Vosika, 10, takes a swing at the piñata on Dec 10, during the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado holiday party, which was held at the Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County. The organization holds some kind of gathering every month to help matches solidify and provide an outing. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Anthony Kunkel, an ultramarathoner who recently won the John F. Kennedy 50 Memorial, runs for 12 consecutive hours Dec. 10 at the Running Store in support of the Herren Project, a substance-and-addiction relief organization. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald