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Young adult has trouble building relationships

DEAR ABBY: I’m 26 and not currently in a relationship. I don’t have many friends. I’d like to have more, and I try. I wasn’t popular in middle and high school, either. I have been in and out...

DATE: Sep 12, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

IBS: The truth behind the myths and the power of diet

Irritable Bowel Syndrome, commonly known as IBS, is a term many of us have come across. But what exactly is it? The Mayo Clinic describes IBS as an intestinal disorder; however, its exact r...

DATE: Sep 12, 2023 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

SJBPH emergency compensation: ‘This has become personal’

As the director of communications at San Juan Basin Public Health during part of the COVID-19 pandemic, I feel the need to weigh in on the investigation by La Plata County, into emergency co...

DATE: Sep 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Electoral college system effectively disenfranchises most Americans’

Given everything that has happened in the last eight years, it is time to initiate a movement to rid ourselves of the archaic electoral college by means of an amendment to the Constitution....

DATE: Sep 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Mexico is unraveling and nobody seems to care

A local resident, who I’ll refer to as Mario, recently asked me to look over his immigration file. After paying a lawyer more than $20K across five years, an immigration judge in Denver admi...

DATE: Sep 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Some very important idle chatter

Dear Action Line: Boy, are we trying to reduce our carbon emissions here in Durango! The Trolley has been free; there are incentives for e-bikes; our town has quite a few charging statio...

DATE: Sep 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Despite shorter days, colder weather, we can still be active

You know fall and winter are approaching when ... golden leaves emerge, you leave 10 minutes early to get ahead of the school bus, shadows lengthen, you’re shopping for firewood, it’s pumpki...

DATE: Sep 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Single woman unimpressed by today’s men

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 57-year-old, attractive, single, childless woman. Why is it that the men I meet are just plain dumb? They have the conversational skills of 5-year-olds and the same juvenile...

DATE: Sep 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Introvert wants to avoid planned outing

DEAR ABBY: I am in a group of friends who are mainly from the same country. We bond pretty well and occasionally spend time together. We mostly communicate by text in a chat group. Once in a...

DATE: Sep 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Colorado’s beauty is for everyone to enjoy: A trip on the trail

On the heels of a thoroughly ground-soaking rain at the Nature Center last week, a group of energetic boys from Ignacio and I slipped and slid down the Rattlesnake Ramble trail. Comments lik...

DATE: Sep 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Draco takes flight this time of year

Greetings stargazers. There is a dragon in our night sky. Draco is one of the circumpolar constellations that is above the northern horizon year-round, but is especially well-positioned to p...

DATE: Sep 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Cottonwood Wash, Bears Ears and the character of canyons

In an extraordinary move this summer, The Wildlands Conservancy, with support from the Center of Biological Diversity and other donors, purchased 320 acres in Cottonwood Wash near Bluff, Uta...

DATE: Sep 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels