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Thank you for supporting our kids

When your son's baseball team wins a district title (against Durango - that's always sweet!) and the coach says, "We're going to state!" reality starts to set in. State means mote...

Culinary arts classes coming to Durango in fall

Culinary arts classes will begin this fall in Durango as the result of a collaboration between Manna Soup Kitchen and Southwest Colorado Community College (SCCC).    Kathy Tonness...

Women's business conference set for July 24

 The Colorado Small Business Development Center Network (SBDC) will host the fifth annual Southwest Colorado Women's Small Business Conference on Thursday, July 24 at Fort Lewis College in ...

Colorado Forest Service offers tips for watering trees

BROOMFIELD, Colo. - Despite heavy rains over parts of Colorado in recent months, persistent drought conditions have parched the soil over much of the state, stressing even irrigated lawns an...

What a Fourth!

By Melanie Brubaker Mazur Times editor I love Independence Day. We honor our past and have a good time, but there is an important theme underneath it all - we live in t...

Lightning causes 5-acre fire near Piedra River

A helicopter and ground crew were working Thursday afternoon on the KV Fire about one and a half miles north of U.S. Highway 160 up the First Fork Road in the San Juan National Forest. The ...

Does entitlement give you right to trespass?

I thought I was done writing about stupidity - at least for a little while - but another example of it came through our door last Friday. Actually, this person wasn't stupid, he w...

Be careful with fire this weekend

As of June 30, the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch Center was reporting moderate fire danger in Southwest Colorado, with drier conditions in low to middle elevations. No fire re...

Pine River Chiropractic welcomes new massage therapist

Kim Carpenter opening cosmetology business in new office

Parade route ending at Bayfield Parkway

The Bayfield Fourth of July parade will line up on South Street, turn on Church Street, and head west on Mill Street this year as it has in the past. The parade officially ends at...

Assayii lake fire 98-percent contained

The Assayii Lake fire in New Mexico burned 14,712 acres and is 98-percent contained, according to the Incident Information System of the U.S. government. The fire started June 13...

New BHS grad dies in car crash

Bayfield resident Austin Potthoff died last week when his Jeep Cherokee went off Highway 140 near Breen and into a stand of trees. He graduated last month from Bayfield High School. ...