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Asking some tough questions

Was someone you love murdered? Or did someone you love commit murder? Unless you’re in one of those camps, the subject of the death penalty probably doesn’t come up often in conve...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Master’s program offers sabbatical Down Under

It was quite an undertaking when the University of Denver decided to open a master’s program for social work in Durango. And no one saw that more intimately than Wanda Ellingson, ...

DATE: Jan 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Red Mountain Pass is still impassable

Climbers working to mitigate rockslide

DATE: Jan 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Taking time to say thank you

One of my annual New Year’s resolutions is to make my friends and family a higher priority in my life. The staff members at Sunshine Gardens West apparently agree with that goal, ...

DATE: Jan 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Planning Commission approves land-use code

New rules have been 4 years in the making

DATE: Jan 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

A lift from the big kids

High school students mentor through Big Brothers Big Sisters

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Agnew honored as Volunteer of the Year by WRC

There were a lot of high notes at the Women’s Resource Center’s Annual Meeting on Tuesday, but perhaps the highest was when Shauna Agnew was named Volunteer of the Year. Program D...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Salsa-ing into New Year for Boys and Girls Club

Some people partied hearty New Year’s Eve and went to bed in the wee hours. Others decided to end 2013 and start 2014 by learning something new. And when doing that while raising...

DATE: Jan 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors