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Moving to Durango requires mindset, wardrobe change

My husband and I have some land in Hesperus. We’re moving from Baltimore to the Durango area in about six months to build our new home. He’s retired, but I have to work for a few more years....

Feed the world with resource-minded agriculture

Food production is not the problem; allocation is

Facts show City Council has gone too far with bag ordinance

By Cathy Yonker, Mike Finney, Betty Clark, Paul Bynum and Dave Peters The facts surrounding the bag ordinance are clear and evidence to support a vote to repeal it. F...

Countering starvation requires more than just food

July’s column described two Nicaraguan boys with severe malnutrition. Miguel had kwashiorkor, caused by lack of protein. Poor Van’s problem was inadequate food energy; he died from marasmus....

History comes alive with local education project

The San Juan Mountains Association and the La Plata County Historical Society are collaborating for a second season to conduct a heritage education project to increase community awareness of...

Creating something tasty from pasture to plate

If there’s any career that’s got legs in this fast-changing world, it’s feeding people. Everyone’s got to eat, after all. So the ProStart Program at Durango High School is a parti...

Breuer’s comedy is grown up, not adult

Longtime “Saturday Night Live” fans may recall former cast member Jim Breuer best as the character Goat Boy. The New York-born comedian, whose tenure on the long-running NBC late-...

A Rose blooms in our Week 7 Gridiron Green

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. This name goes by Dan Rose, and his Week 7 Gridiron Green was pretty sweet. The DRose from Mancos, not to be confused w...

In finest season, school garden project a joy

Two more days until the weekend. I find it difficult on these crisp fall days to sit inside the office, catching up on phone calls, emails and webinars, while the last of the sunlight dips b...

Sorry affair with the Navajo Mine leaves public out

In 1957, the Utah Construction Co. leased lands on the Navajo Nation to mine coal, and the Navajo Mine was begun. The mine always has been, and continues to be, the only coal sup...

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Mountain Daylight Time - Produced by Rich Alcott

The hottest fashions of yesteryear

There is no question women today have it pretty easy in the fashion department – except for the pantyhose, Spanx and high heels, of course – after seeing what our Victorian foremothers had t...