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Colorado state lands offer conservation options

Here in Southwest Colorado, we’re blessed by an abundance of public lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Another land holder is the state of Color...

DATE: Mar 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Getting down to pressing City Council issues

Many items deserve attention from the 2023 City Council candidates. Civility. Contention among councilors detracts from both their effectiveness and respect from the community. Could the...

DATE: Mar 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

BID’s Spring Rewards Program Starts April 1

No fooling, the Durango Business Improvement District’s Spring Rewards Program starts April 1. This program rewards you for shopping local. Save some of your tax return money and spend it lo...

DATE: Mar 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Silence replaces friendship

DEAR ABBY: I have been friends with a woman I’ll call “Blanche” for 40 years. We used to work together, and we supported each other during our divorces and other life problems. We lost touch...

DATE: Mar 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Parents: Remember that words matter

DEAR ABBY: While shopping at the mall, I have seen too many stressed-out parents ignore or yell at their children. It certainly isn’t helpful. It isn’t how I was raised or how I raised mine....

DATE: Mar 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

A superfood for any budget

What luck that you stumbled across this column. Otherwise, the fact that it’s National Nutrition Month may have slipped past your radar. Seems only fair we dedicate this month’s column to f...

DATE: Mar 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Honoring the life and legacy of Judy Heumann

On March 4, we lost a major champion for disability rights. Advocate, rabble-rouser and longtime disability rights hero Judy Heumann died at age 75. Heumann had been fighting for her rights ...

DATE: Mar 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Posey’s War in Bears Ears: Telling the Truth a Century Later

By the 1920s, most of the American West had been settled. There were Ford automobiles, telephones, mercantile stores and small town newspapers. But there was also injustice, racism and well-...

DATE: Mar 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Finding Leo’s galaxies

Greetings stargazers. End Daylight Saving Time! There – I got my semiannual rant out of the way and can get back to what are likely more productive musings. Leo is one of the constellations ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Lift off after liftoff: New home may be needed for Lift 11

Dear Action Line: After my nice unexpected walk (Feb. 23) from lift 8 to lift 3 in the deep snow when the lift shut down, I started to think of all the improvements promised or dreamed o...

DATE: Mar 12, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line

It takes a system, not just a goal

Are you working hard toward your health goals or are you stuck in a state of “where do I start?” In coaching thousands of clients over the years, almost all come to me saying “I know what to...

DATE: Mar 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Betting, transfer rules make CU ‘Compromise University’

University of Colorado at Boulder has recently fired its latest head football coach and hired Deion Sanders to replace him. Sanders is coming off admirable success as coach of Jackson State ...

DATE: Mar 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion