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Coming soon? The Holiday Inn spur trail

Dear Action Line: Why is the river path/easement behind Natural Grocers still closed? It was my understanding that the improvements were a condition of building the hotel. Yet, the hotel...

DATE: Sep 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Our evolving environmental baseline

The phrase “new normal” is tossed around frequently to describe our changing environment and climate. It highlights what we each consider our baseline understanding of the world around us, ...

DATE: Sep 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Video content: A small business’ best friend

Over the past 18 months, the Visit Durango team has been intrigued and excited by a quickly expanding trend: Short video content outperforms still photography and text-based content time and...

DATE: Sep 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

The value in foster field trips

I recently completed an online course with Maddie’s Fund, a national nonprofit that provides resources to animal welfare organizations. Through this course, I learned a great deal about the ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: From the Humane Society

Advice to leads to falling-out

DEAR ABBY: I have been in my second marriage for almost 20 years. My wife came with two grown children, who each have two kids. I have tried to be the best family man I could, and a fath...

DATE: Sep 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Local musician kicks off solo career

Sometimes you have to start over. Or as Joshua Polaris, aka Josh Hoffman, says, hit the reset button. It’s what the local musician is doing as he kicks off a solo career after spending the ...

DATE: Sep 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

La Plata County 4-H members earn awards at Colorado State Fair

Our 4-H year wraps up at the end of September, which means we get to reflect on the year we had and plan for next year. In August, we held our La Plata County Fair. It was a wonderful week –...

DATE: Sep 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Belly fat: What you don’t see in the mirror

Millions of Americans struggle to prevent or lose accumulated belly fat. Many times, the No. 1 focus is our appearance. However, belly fat is also terrible for your health. There are two ty...

DATE: Sep 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Editorial Cartoons

DATE: Sep 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Pandemic leaves social skills rusty

DEAR ABBY: I am a guy who is 27. I have always been somewhat shy and reserved, but I do like people and I like mixing. After more than a year of being “locked down” during the COVID-19 p...

DATE: Sep 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Courthouse clock rings true once again

Dear Action Line: Why is the La Plata County Courthouse clocktower always sounding 8 minutes after the hour? Today I think it was actually 14 minutes late. Can you inquire with Quasimodo...

DATE: Sep 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Action Line