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Want to grow strawberries? It’s easy and rewarding

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears every other week during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggest...

Durango High School graduate on TV searching for moolah

A 2004 graduate of Durango High School and 2010 graduate of Fort Lewis College is scheduled to appear Friday on the TNT adventure show “72 Hours.” The program is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. (...

Do your part to reduce employee theft

Trudy is a certified public accountant and the chief financial officer of a privately owned real estate developer. She was relating her frustration with the company owners and their unwillin...

Malan delights at festival’s Summer Soiree

Franz Liszt groupie Petronel Malan did her crush on the “rock star” composer proud Sunday night at the Music in the Mountains Summer Soiree at Durango Mountain Resort. And her tributes to Ha...

The Clubhouse Porch

First off, I want to thank everyone – and I mean just about everyone – who came up to me, emailed me, called me and text messaged me about last week’s headline on the Clubhouse Porch. ...

Romantics rejoice with local music festival opening

Opening the first full weekend of concerts for this year’s Music in the Mountains, an abundance of Brahms and Schumann’s “Spring” symphony seemed to set a Romantic tone. That’s been changed....

Some residents share road but not the wealth

I’m curious about the “share the road” wording below the “beware of elk” sign on the road to Lake Nighthorse. As far as I am concerned, the elk have the right of way and can have the whole d...

The murky world of morphine and palliative care

Sometimes, my colleagues report cases in which palliative or comfort care crosses the line into euthanasia. Palliative care is intended not to treat illness or prolong life but to...

When children’s games become an exploration in autonomy

In June, while Dan, Rose and I planted potatoes in our front yard, Col decided to build a fort in our cottonwood tree. He hauled up some random boards from our woodpile while Ros...

United Way’s purpose is much more than just fundraising

At a laundromat, people wash laundry, at a grocery store, people buy groceries and at United Way of Southwest Colorado, we unite. What do we mean by that? The word sounds great, but let me s...

Even when your think teens aren’t, ‘They Are Listening’

Let’s take a minute to think about when we were teenagers. Did your parents talk to you about alcohol and drugs when you were young? Were they role models? Did they ‘walk the talk’? Did they...

America was left coping withe the legacy of war

The Durango Evening Herald of April 3, 1899, was much concerned that Durangoans should vote in the upcoming local election. In the aftermath of the heated 1890s political scene, four parties...