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Performing arts in bloom

Durango’s persistent shortage of social and performing arts venues is changing. Tonight (May 12), Durango’s finest mid-sized performance venue will host another memorable recital and a new v...

DATE: May 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Mighty Poplar plays Tico Time

Sometimes, you just have to play some bluegrass music. Musicians like bass player Greg Garrison, banjo player Noam Pikelny, guitar player Chris “Critter” Eldridge, mandolin player Andrew Ma...

DATE: May 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Family caregivers an important support for people with disabilities

It’s no secret that services for people with disabilities have long suffered from a shortage of support staff. Since the pandemic, that support has become a crisis. Nationally, policymakers ...

DATE: May 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Revelations of sex abuse sow shock

DEAR ABBY: I recently was told that my late father-in-law was a serial child abuser who molested his daughter and at least two of his grandchildren. My husband loved and deeply respected his...

DATE: May 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Is food thy medicine or thy poison?

Is food your medicine and supporting your health and healing, or is it your poison working against you and making you feel worse? If you struggle from aches and pain, digestive discomfort, h...

DATE: May 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Your local library can help you in ways you may not know

Every so often we librarians will hear that age-old refrain, “Who needs libraries anymore?” After all, isn’t everything online now? We all have computers right? Heck, with ebooks, we don’t e...

DATE: May 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Shelf Life

Does moving fairgrounds make horse sense?

Dear Action Line: I’m wondering why the powers-that-be want to move the La Plata County Fairgrounds from its current spot on north Main to a plateau far, far away. I love having it in to...

DATE: May 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Hantavirus coming out of hibernation

It’s that time of year again. Spring cleaning. If you’re lucky, your spring-cleaning soundtrack will include the new arrival of birdsong accompanied by the host of wild critters whose presen...

DATE: May 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Purser can add ‘important, thoughtful voice to LPEA’

We all know that campaign elections, even for local La Plata Energy Association board directors, can have moments of heated tension. I was saddened by Joe Lewandowski’s April 30 guest column...

DATE: May 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Luschen ‘proven energy expert’ who can meet goals, keep costs stable

It is supposed to be fun! Or that, at least, is what keeps me on a bike. The joy and the community we build around two wheels, the Durango trails and mountains, are why I call this place hom...

DATE: May 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Old column helped reader see clearly

DEAR ABBY: I want to thank you for a letter you published in 2007. It came from a woman saying her daughter had “convergence insufficiency disorder,” in which the eye drifts and causes doubl...

DATE: May 6, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Ancient wisdom coming to the rescue!

A broken arm, a surgery to add a plate and screws to my already metal-filled body, and much pain later, I find myself reflecting on the past several weeks. To lose use of my dominant, right ...

DATE: May 6, 2023 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

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