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Celebrate kids with 2013’s Week of the Young Child

Today is the start of the 2013 Week of the Young Child. This is a national celebration to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early ...

Disagreeing key to sharpening ideological arguments

Editor’s note: The last paragraph of Megan Graham’s column was not printed in Sunday’s Opinion section. The column is printed here in full. Hanging around with peop...

Brain gain from womb to tomb

As we celebrate the Week of the Young Child, we must incorporate into our parenting and schooling all the recent research about brain development. Technological advances have enabled scienti...

Water rights also mean owners have responsibilities

With irrigation season comes the cleaning and repairing of irrigation ditches. Colorado law saddles water-right owners with a number of legal responsibilities. It also, however, affords wate...

Despite critics’ claims, PERA is secure investment

Current propaganda regarding the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association’s so-called too-high earnings rate is wrong. In spite of what some Colorado office holders say Co...

Santé, olé, bon appetit: Interact dinner tours world

Community service is a La Plata County value, and there are more and more ways we are showing young people how to make a difference. One way is the Interact Club, which is Rotary ...

The Second City is a star-making machine

Fifty years has passed since Chicago’s The Second City comedy troupe began churning out talent and laughs. It’s been the launchpad for dozens of household names in the e...

Running club offers new options for trail and track

New and exciting changes are in the air this season for Durango Motorless Transit’s weekly trail runs. After surveying club members, it was determined that Wednesdays work b...

Media campaign targets youths to make positive choices

Animation films usually are not my cup of tea. However, at “4-H Movie Night” on Friday, I enjoyed watching “Despicable Me.” I am a sucker for good-overcoming-evil themes,...

Sign up for the Earth Day 5K

On April 20, Durango Nature Studies will hold its fourth annual Earth Day 5K and Family Fun Run Celebration at For the Birds. It will begin at 11 a.m. In honor of our event, and ...