Images tell the stories of Southwest Colorado in 2021
Jeffrey R. Wilson, chief judge of the 6th Judicial District, listens June 21 to prosecutor Fred Johnson before opening remarks in the Mark Redwine trial at the La Plata County Courthouse. Redwine was convicted of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of his son, Dylan Redwine. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train stops March 23 to take on water in Hermosa. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Durango Police Chief Bob Brammer pursues Jonah Barrett-Lesko on Sept. 21 in the Animas River at Santa Rita Park after Barrett-Lesko escaped from the La Plata County Jail. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Erin Cwiertniewicz serves lunch Aug. 13 at the Durango Diner. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Multiple agencies responded June 16 to the Vosburg Pike Fire near County Road 228 east of Durango. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
A single-seat tanker drops slurry June 16 on the Vosburg Pike Fire near County Road 228 east of Durango. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
A rider competes in the saddle bronc riding competition June 11 during the Ute Mountain Roundup Rodeo at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Lindsay Levine goes up on one of the walls April 28 at the Durango Skatepark while skating with Women on Wheels. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Jake Hladick, 15, a sophomore at Big Picture High School, sits in class on the first day of school Aug. 24. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Callie Cole, a Fort Lewis College chemistry professor, uses a micro-extraction instrument Aug. 4 to measure cider aroma in the school’s laboratory. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Tracy Jones with the Southwest Movement for Black Lives and co-organizer of the Juneteenth celebration at Rotary Park, reads the definition of Juneteenth to the crowd June 19. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
The Stars and Stripes balloon inflates on Aug. 6 during the Cortez Rendezvous Hot Air Balloon Rally. Seventeen balloons are participating in this year’s rally. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Stylus Fran, 8, focuses before the start of class March 4 at Bayfield Nexus Guardian Art. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Alyssa Buescher with Mountain Heat Entertainment demonstrates performing with fire in water on Sept. 28 at Tico Time Resort. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Mark Ritchey, a staff nurse in the ICU at Mercy Regional Medical Center, checks on a COVID-19 patient June 8 who is unconscious and intubated. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Rhianna Velasquez, 14, uses a blower Aug. 12 to dry Betty, a Boer goat, before showing her at the La Plata County Fair. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Gary Broad, former owner of the Durango Diner, laughs with customers Sept. 28. Broad sold the business he operated with his wife, Donna, for 41 years. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Durango residents cleared about 12 inches of snow Jan. 19 after a winter storm moved through the area. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Ira Feeney, 3, gives Santa a big hug Nov. 26 after he arrived at Buckley Park for the lighting of the community Christmas tree. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Jake Riggs transforms into Aria PettyOne in his Durango apartment June 4 as he gets ready to host Beam Me Up Starlight drag/trivia night at Starlight Lounge. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Raiha Paewai, a registered nurse in the ICU at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, sits in her husband’s art studio June 9 at their home outside Cortez where she lived separately during the pandemic until he was vaccinated. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Rosa Sabido, a Mexican immigrant who has been in sanctuary at the United Methodist Church in Mancos for more than four years, smiles outside the church Aug. 24. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
A patron at the Billy Goat Saloon in Gem Village on March 31. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
About 20 people took part in a funeral for the cottonwood tree that was being cut down Sept. 15 near the intersection of 32nd Street and East Third Avenue to make way for the Animas River Trail underpass. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Hayden Lubit, 15, waits for his ride in front of Durango High School on Oct. 12 as snow flurries move through town. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Ilene O’Ketter, a pharmacist with Mercy Regional Medical Center, fills syringes Jan. 7 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Mark Redwine listens June 25 as his public defender, Justin Bogan, questions a witness. Redwine was convicted of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of his son, Dylan Redwine. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Anne Cook, a friend of Elaine Hall, tears up July 16 after Mark Redwine was convicted of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of his son, Dylan Redwine. Elaine Hall is Dylan’s mother. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Ed and Sonya Willmett say a few words about their daughter, Jadah Willmett, on Oct. 30 to family and friends who gathered to create a memorial next to the Speedway convenience store in Bayfield where Jadah Willmett was killed while at work. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Tanya (no last name given) with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment conducts a COVID-19 test on Jimmy Mason on Feb. 2 at the Purple Cliffs homeless camp southeast of Durango. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Michael Martin Murphey entertains the crowd Aug. 13 during the La Plata County Fair concert in the Fred W. Klatt III Arena. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Jasper, a 2-year-old Maine coon/gray tabby mix, relaxes on Feb. 19, as Leah Salazar, a groomer at the Pet Haus Groom Room, holds him and Katie Ratio, salon manager, blow dries him after a bath. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
