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Tie a string around your finger

Don’t forget that September is National Senior Center Month, and Sunday, Sept. 13 is Grandparents Day. If you are lucky enough to have a senior loved one in your life – or in your children’s...

Developers should also pay for roads

Do you still think, as you did in 2010, that developers should pay road impact fees for the increased road use caused by their developments? Or do you now think the rest of us should pay all...

Is the sewer plant missing capacity?

The present city of Durango wastewater treatment plant was designed and built in the mid 1980s and placed in operation in about 1985-87. At that time, the plant had a total secondary capacit...

Golf course is a poor use for forest land

On Monday, Aug. 31, friends and I were walking trails in Chris Park. We heard loud motor noises and realized they were from large machinery. When we came around the next bend, we saw the bul...

Now is the time to move the sewer plant

I moved to Durango in 1973 and there have been sewage problems for most of the time since then. The first city system was built in 1958 and was replaced with the existing facility...

Why even consider a new sewer plant?

Seems every day I hear more and more people with an absolute one-track mind whining “The sewer plant stinks, move it.” End of thought process. These people have no concept of what it would e...

The United States created today’s Iran

If you know anything about the history of relations between the West and Iran, you appreciate why the notion of getting military with ancient Persia is unthinkable. Today, we have...

Test drilling would have prevented spill

The EPA says it can’t understand why the Gold King Mine adit is producing 600 gallons per minute now when, before the breach, flow was 250 gallons per minute. The answer is simple physics: s...

Fire assignment offered simple reminder

I just recently returned from a fire assignment in Winthrop, Washington. I was at the Valley Helibase the day the Twisp River Fire blew up and three young firefighters lost their lives. Thro...

DHS did well with wrestling coaches

Kudos to Durango High School on the hiring of Leo Garand as head wrestling coach and retaining Matt Beaver as his assistant. You will not find two finer coaches anywhere. They hav...

More guns akin to more nukes

Responding to Robert Wilde’s letter titled “Offer concealed carry to reduce crime,” (Herald, Aug. 31): If more people having guns will prevent more gun violence, won’t more countries having ...

Lobby the city to move the sewer plant

I hope Durango City Council has not gone tone deaf about the need and costs of moving our sewer plant out of Santa Rita. I spend my share of time on the river. My kids played soccer at the p...
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