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At farmers market, learn about food

Even though I would never consider myself a “social butterfly,” I am not short on the gift of gab. If you get me talking about broad topics such as farming, gardening, landscapin...

Manure containing herbicides may damage garden

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...

A climate for change about climate change?

“Do reasonable, responsible and compassionate people have a ‘duty to warn’ of looming threats to future human well-being and environmental health, and then to sensibly help one another make ...

Public editorial board meeting

Please join The Durango Herald editorial board for its public session at 3:30 p.m. Thursday on the patio at Carver Brewing Co., 1022 Main Ave. Each of these meetings will consider issues rel...

Saturday in the park with Friends of the Arts

The Durango Friends of the Arts did it again, creating a perfect summer day in the park. On Saturday, the organization held its second annual Artists Market at Santa Rita Park, t...

Get the golf juices flowing with the annual Choker

Before I dive into the results of two major tournaments from last week, I must bring to the forefront a popular tournament mainstay called The Choker, which will be played on Saturday at the...

Stupid is the ‘new smart’ in artisan economy

What’s keeping you from becoming an artisan? Is it the fear of being criticized or called stupid? Is it that you don’t have enough time, experience or money? Artisans are quietly ...

The Other Typist – a mystery – is about obsession

The Other Typist is Suzanne Rindell’s debut novel, and perhaps her first published writing. Rindell lives in New York City and is a Ph.D. candidate in American modernist literatur...

Distraction from pain can help or hurt

A dictionary definition of “distraction” is the “act of distracting or the condition of being distracted.” It appears that distraction is active or passive. Pain distraction or distracting p...

Having nonprofit does not make you tax exempt entity

A Colorado nonprofit can be set up online with the Colorado Secretary of State. However, setting up a nonprofit with the Colorado Secretary of State does not make you a tax-exempt entity, no...

If you can’t hunt one treasure, find another

Armed with a pointed trowel and diggin’ in to my dreams to find treasure, I’ve found the hardest part of treasure hunting is actually just getting out to hunt. When I started as ...

Light pollution can steal stars from night sky

Greetings, stargazers. I recently received some new lights for the Old Fort Lewis campus, where the observatory is. These new lights are to replace the current street/security l...