Nancy Stohl dishes out stuffing during the Durango Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Nov. 24 in the Exhibit Hall at the La Plata County Fairgrounds.
Residents and visitors broke out their winter coats and boots Nov. 21, in Durango with the arrival of a Pacific storm. It brought snow to the San Juan Mountains, including 1 foot at Purgatory Resort, by the afternoon. Visitors to downtown Durango cross College Avenue at Main Avenue on Monday as seen through the windows of the General Palmer Hotel. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
Fort Lewis College senior Justin Succo carries supplies for a friend who is participating in a caravan to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to support protesters who oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. The caravan left Durango on Nov. 22. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
Fort Lewis College students and volunteers load supplies into vehicles early Nov. 22 for their caravan to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Students went to join protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
Clouds break above the Animas Valley on Nov. 22. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Clouds clung to the west Needle Mountains on Nov. 22, a day after a Pacific storm unloaded more than a foot of snow in the San Juan Mountains north of Durango. Photo by JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
What a difference one storm makes at Purgatory Resort. A storm moved out of Southwest Colorado on Nov. 22, afternoon leaving more than a foot of snow in the San Juan Mountains. Two days earlier the bare slopes had skiers worried. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Durango Adult Education Center student Jackie Safari unpacks clothes in her room at an apartment Nov. 18. She will share the room with two other DAEC students. Housing is one of many barriers the center is removing for adults working to improve their lives through education. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
Nancy Stohl dishes out stuffing during the Durango Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Thanksgiving Day, in the Exhibit Hall at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. Tonya Wales has coordinated the dinner for the last three years, and about 1,200 people feasted on the dinner this year. Photo by JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
More than 1,200 diners were served at the Durango Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Thanksgiving Day in the Exhibit Hall at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Spider-Man, a.k.a. Ricki Gilmour, of Cortez, along with more than 600 runners took part in this year’s Durango Running Club’s Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning at Fort Lewis College. The event is sponsored by Mercy Regional Medical Center. This year, proceeds will go to Manna Soup Kitchen. In addition, each year some proceeds will go to a different nonprofit animal shelter. Photo by JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Howard Grotts, after winning the men’s 5-mile race leads the Durango Running Club’s 1-mile Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning at Fort Lewis College. Photo Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Mr. and Mrs. Claus greet children and adults after arriving by horse-drawn wagon at Buckley Park on Nov. 26. Photo by JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Jeremiah Chavez carries the family Christmas tree with wife, Jackie, and their daughter, Savannah, 10, on Nov. 26, after cutting it down during the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Christmas Tree Train. The train dropped off people with about 30 tree-cutting permits near the Cascade Wye north of Durango. Photo by JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
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