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A rewarding spring

The Durango Business Improvement District encourages you to shop local this April, and you can earn a reward for doing so! BID’s Spring Rewards program is back with more spending levels and ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Cuts to Medicaid would affect millions of people

Congress is poised to cut Medicaid. The reasons abound, but most legislators who support the cuts cite reducing federal spending, unwinding the Affordable Care Act, and even some questionabl...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Choose to feed your mind with positive body image

If you’re expecting a lecture on the importance of eating fruits and vegetables for National Nutrition Month, you’re in for a surprise! It’s true, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals (anti...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

La Plata County 4-H gears up for an exciting year of travel and learning

La Plata County 4-H members are set for a year of extraordinary experiences, embarking on journeys that promise to shape their futures and broaden their horizons. From competing on the natio...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

The magic is always there

Winter seems to come and go in lower elevation communities like Durango and Cortez, but our snowpack (although low for the year) at Andrews Lake Winter Recreation Area keeps sparkling with l...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Historic Hubbell Trading Post

In 1878, a decade after Navajos returned from the Long Walk and their forced imprisonment at Fort Sumner, John Lorenzo Hubbell established a trading post at Ganado, Arizona. He would come to...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Dana Ariel plays iAM MUSIC

Making it in the music business means surrounding yourself with a good team and a pocketful of good songs. Both surround Dana Ariel. The local musician, a former festival kid reared on fest...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

New neighbor gets more than a welcome

DEAR ABBY: I’m a gay man living in a predominantly straight community. About a year ago, a married couple moved in. One day, the husband asked me to come over and help him put a table togeth...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Mother left out of group picture

DEAR ABBY: After being married overseas, my daughter recently held a wedding reception stateside. My husband and his sister were able to attend the wedding. I could not because of serious bu...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Both political parties have failed ‘We the People’

I had planned on writing about potential water shortage issues this year and steps we can take to get through that. Or I was going to write about the Durango Police Department, the new chall...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Seeds, seeds, everywhere seeds!

You must forgive me for getting ahead of myself, but when the sky is this blue and the air is over 60 degrees, all I want to do is sit on the porch in sandals and peruse the seed catalogs th...

DATE: Mar 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

A flashing yellow light in the night

Dear Action Line, I find myself in acute intellectual misery as I attempt to determine why most of the flashing yellow left turn lights have been eliminated along the 160 corridor n...

DATE: Mar 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Action Line