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From a not-over-the-hill-just-yet ‘soldier’

Most of us “old-timers” know that La Plata County is an exceptional place to live, with many residents supporting our community’s nonprofit service organizations. If citizens in...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter writer needs to check the facts

In response to Todd Patterson’s letter (Herald, Nov. 10) letter, I’d like to state my opinion and share a few facts, besides asking people to stop drinking the Fox News Kool-Aid. ...

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Hope parking fine was worth lost revenue

This is my first letter to an editor, ever. I received a parking ticket while having breakfast in your town in October. We had previously stayed the night in a Durango motel and ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Can technology solve all our problems?

When I go to Walmart to get oil and air filters for my car, and I forget what part number I need, there is a box on the wall where I can plug in my car model and year, and the box will tell ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Thanks for help with communication skills

Thanksgiving grants us time each year to reflect on our blessings with gratitude and to look forward to the New Year with anticipation. At the Stuttering Foundation, we would lik...

DATE: Nov 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

VFW, American Legion thank Demons football team

The Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 4031, and American Legion, Post 28, would like to compliment the Durango High School football team for its display of old fashioned patriotism during the o...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Be more responsible on roads we share

On Nov. 9, at 3:15 p.m., I almost killed three adults and a dog. The fearless four were strolling north in the center of the south-bound lane of County Road 250 between Trimble L...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Who speaks up for the regular folks?

In my third score of life as a grey-feathered old owl, I am “ruffled” by the centuries-old extreme behavior of bad boys opening their short silk robes with a stogie hanging out of their mou...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Local people support drilling in ANWR

The single biggest reason to support the opening of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development is that it is widely supported by the people of Alaska, the people of the A...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Make it news when it sells, not before

You bought a pig in a poke on this one. The Associated Press I watched that show and saw no one who said the thing was authentic, except the claimant. Nat Geo’s imprimatur on that little d...

DATE: Nov 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Joffe: The fastest thing in the universe is the GOP tax scam

The fastest thing in the universe is the speed of light. Nothing can go faster than 186,282 miles per second. That adds up to 5.88 trillion miles per year. At that speed, light from the nea...

DATE: Nov 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Help veterans renew Choice Program

On Dec. 31st the Veterans Choice Program is due to expire if not renewed. The program allows vets to see local doctors instead of traveling long distances to Veterans Administrat...

DATE: Nov 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor