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Keep your family (including pets) safe this summer

The warm months bring more than just sunny days and favorite summer activities. Summertime also brings the risk of animal-, insect- and tick-borne diseases as we are often in close contact w...

DATE: Jun 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Brewfest tickets on sale

The 23rd San Juan Brewfest opened ticket sales earlier this week. The San Juan Brewfest has grown into the biggest and best beer-tasting festival in the Four Corners, and it benefits United ...

DATE: Jun 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Can we enter abortion, gun debates with compassion?

The debates about abortion and guns in the United States rage on. When does life begin? Religious traditions offer answers ranging from “life begins at conception” to “life begins with the f...

DATE: Jun 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Woman eats roommate’s food

DEAR ABBY: A couple of months ago, I moved from my mother’s into an apartment with a friend I had rekindled a high school friendship with a few years back. The first month in, I noticed she ...

DATE: Jun 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Carute Roma hosts CD release party

Once you’re a fan of gypsy music you’re a fan for life. Doesn’t matter if you were once a punk rocker or jam band kid, an EDM fan or guitar-strumming folkie, when you commit whole hog to the...

DATE: Jun 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

A return to civility and bonefish

Grand Bahamas starting to recover from Hurricane Dorian

DATE: Jun 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Flies & Lies

Retired man smitten with neighbor

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are retired. A short while ago, a young couple moved in across the street. A few months later, my husband, who does yardwork for neighbors for extra money, starte...

DATE: May 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Someday, nowhere bridges and trails will go somewhere

Dear Action Line: A Three Springs question: What is the plan to connect the bike and walking path to the rest of the miles of paths through Durango? Currently it ends under the Bridges t...

DATE: May 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Woman always revisits past decisions

DEAR ABBY: I’m a divorced woman, soon to be 60, who is often haunted by vivid memories of the past. I constantly recall times in my life that I regret or cringe about, and things I wish I wo...

DATE: May 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Sneaky boyfriend sabotages friendship

DEAR ABBY: I have a gay friend I’ll call “Allen.” We have been close friends for 13 years. Allen has visited me often with his friends from England, and two years ago, when I could finally a...

DATE: May 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Are you prepared to handle a crisis?

June 9, 2002, I was flying out of Durango to Denver. As we boarded the flight, we could see a large plume of smoke over Missionary Ridge. While flying over the fire, I knew that it wasn’t go...

DATE: May 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: From the Chamber

Reading with kids should be filled with fun, curiosity

What makes a book a classic? Do you remember the “classic” books you were forced to read in school? Did you love any of them? Are there books that you do remember fondly? I think that many t...

DATE: May 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Shelf Life

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.