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Say ‘yes’ to 3A Reduce the size of the District 9-R school board for better governance

The Durango School District 9-R Board of Education exists to provide district leadership, to oversee the superintendent and to establish broad district policies that set the achievement goal...

Enjoying the best the community has to offer

Just as the Postal Service won’t let anything (except for budget woes, apparently) get in the way of delivering the mail, a little rough weather – OK, a lot of rough weather, with hail, ligh...

Town Mountain comes bearing new trophies

I’ve never been one for music award shows. Take the Grammys. The televised Grammys ignore the larger number of Grammys that go to real musicians. And the pop-country crowd seems t...

‘Code of the West’ can serve county’s 4-H’ers

The recent storms have caused considerable damage to our great state of Colorado. My thoughts and well wishes go out to all the victims and people affected by the destructive weather. ...

Stewardship of our forests requires balance

Seeing the forest for the trees can be a frustrating experience, even if you’re a forester with decades of experience stewarding our public forests. Appropriate stewardship of a...

The Green Side of Life

Frank Hawkins of Bayfield, who goes by the handle “hawk99” in our weekly Gridiron Green festivities, has an eagle eye when it comes to prognostication. Hawkins won the Week 3 Gree...

Uroda sent off with good wishes and a serenade

If a sign of success is how many people show up for your send-off from a job, then Deborah Uroda is leaving the Women’s Resource Center with flying colors. The lobby of the Roches...

Clubhouse Porch

I had the opportunity to travel to Aspen last weekend to cover a football game, and on a rare day of sunshine I saw how beautiful the little golf course looked just outside of El Jebel. ...

2 major releases to be on shelves by next month

There are two major releases coming in October from big publishing houses. You should know about them: One is huge, and the other is Andrea Camilleri’s new Inspector Montalbano machination, ...

Supernovae flash with striking brightness

Greetings, stargazers. Last month, I talked about the nova in Delphini. The “new star” was not one being born, but a star near the end of its life gasping “not dead yet!” The De...

New suicide-prevention resource available for men

According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 1,053 Coloradans committed suicide in 2012. This number calculates to a rate of 19.7 for every 100,000 people, a jump i...

Roasted chiles put local bag ban in hot spot

So, how will the environmentally conscious people who only carry cloth or nylon grocery bags transport their roasted green chiles from the store to home? And how will they store them? In pla...