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High-altitude adjustments will raise your baking game

Are you a transplant or summer resident having trouble with your cooking and baked goods? Do your cakes and meringues fall, is your rice hard, are your eggs raw or is your bread lacking flav...

A new wilderness within expanse of the San Juans

On Tuesday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted in favor of the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act. The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Mark Udall, with Sen. Michael Bennet as...

Electric fencing will keep bears out of the coop

One of my favorite takeaways from a bear conference last year in Missoula, Mont., was a photo with this caption: “Don’t let your chickens kill a bear!” The picture was part of a p...

Safeguarding Security

Bob Mentzinger lived in the the Four Corners from 1991 to 1996 and wrote extensively about mountain biking for the Abuquerque Journal and Rocky Mountain Sports. For this week's Mountain Dayl...

Tribute to the West provides hope for dyslexic students

The day was hot – too hot – but the party was the definition of cool as supporters of the Liberty School gathered for Round Up on the Animas on June 9. Set on the Little Fishes pr...

EU welcomes my summer home – well, sort of

A common theme of mine during the last couple of years is the growing disconnect between economic policy, politics and the economy. This juxtaposition is more prevalent where I cu...

Navajo Trail Open goes as expected: Tight and great

Another great finish to the Navajo Trail Open, and would you have expected differently? It always seems to come down to the final hole – as nothing is in the bag, or the cup, so ...

Summer school is in session at Arts Center

In my job at the Durango Arts Center, I’m constantly pondering how to best describe who we are and what we do as an organization in a streamlined process and brand identity. There...

Diabetics must be vigilant in caring for their feet

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the leading chronic health conditions among adults in the United States. It results from developing resistance in the body’s tissues to the effects of in...

NAMI is back in S.W. Colo., but what does that mean?

Let’s begin with a description: National Alliance on Mental Illness is the nation’s largest grass-roots mental-health organization dedicated to improving the lives of people and families aff...

Local recycling foiled by silvery bags, foam cups

I have two questions about recycling. The first one is about potato chip bags, which are shiny inside like aluminum foil. Can these go into the single-stream bin? Second, can we recycle Styr...

Gender: Unraveling difference between truth, fiction

Rose has chosen the Disney book, Cinderella, from the library, the version in which Cinderella “always tries to please her stepsisters,” despite their verbal and psychological abuse. And eve...