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It’s your last chance free MET Opera

My Column (Filed in J’sFiles/OPERA/2021.Last.MET.Stream) For Wed. July 21, 2021 The final week of free nightly opera streams from the Metropolitan Opera is upon us. The free part disa...

DATE: Jul 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Manholes and other holes in the high country

Dear Action Line: On U.S. Highway 550 heading north up Molas Pass, there is a concrete pad on the right side of the highway shoulder. Where oh where do the manholes go? – Wondering or Wa...

DATE: Jul 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Now is the time to take advantage of the job market

As I walked around downtown recently, I noticed numerous help wanted signs. Businesses are continuing to emerge from the pandemic and need employees. If you are looking to make a career chan...

DATE: Jul 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: From the Chamber

National forest land exchange poses troubling trade-offs

A festering land exchange controversy near Pagosa Springs is emblematic of larger questions about public lands and private demands. It is the latest in a series of exchanges whereby wealthy ...

DATE: Jul 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Hash Cabbage makes up canceled Durango date

Most bands tour in support of one record. New Orleans-based band Hash Cabbage is currently out on the road supporting two, the result of a pandemic-thrown wrench that landed right on their t...

DATE: Jul 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

4-H members put finishing touches on county fair projects

Our La Plata County Fair is next month! It will be held Aug. 11-15 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. Our 4-H members, the Fair Board and I are so excited to have our normal scheduled acti...

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

Taking turns, and being patient for paving

Dear Action Line: Maybe you have been asked this question already, but with all of the new people moving to Durango, are there any special rules of the road you might be able to share, e...

DATE: Jul 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Saving great landscapes of the American West

Conservation Lands Foundation promotes grassroots approach to protecting lands

DATE: Jul 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The Complexity of Durango’s Labor Shortage

Earlier this summer, Local First, In The Weeds and Good Business Colorado’s Resilient Restaurant Program convened Durango’s local restaurant owners at Zia Taqueria North to address the large...

DATE: Jul 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local First

Mounts matter for successful telescope viewing

Greetings, stargazers. I don’t know who said it first, but it bears repeating that the best telescope is the one that gets used the most. Many of you are familiar with different types of tel...

DATE: Jul 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Britney, guardianship and a new Colorado law

Not everyone is truly free in our land of the free and the brave. Britney Spears has been a recent high-profile example of how American citizens are regularly stripped of their rights. She i...

DATE: Jul 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Sister longs for deeper relationship with siblings

DEAR ABBY: I recently moved back to my hometown after being away for six years. My family is great, and we all get along. The problem is my sisters. There are three of us (all in our 40s...

DATE: Jul 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby