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Nonprofit organizations play key role in setting policies that benefit our community

One of the most important roles of non-profit organizations is to advocate for overarching policies and goals on issues that impact the community. While promoting these policies, non-profit ...

DATE: Jun 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local First

Solstice – the day the sun stands still

Greetings, stargazers. I hope you were in a good location to see the lunar eclipse last month. I saw only clouds, but a friend of mine got to watch the eclipse from the South Pole. That brou...

DATE: Jun 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Family Support Program available in Southwest Colorado

Families. They offer us support and love and comfort. They can bring irritation and pain and sadness. They can push every button we have (after all, they installed them). Celebrate them or ...

DATE: Jun 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Adult daughter still has to check in with parents

DEAR ABBY: I am a 30-year-old married woman. My job requires a lot of domestic travel, which I love. My parents continue to ask that I “check in” whenever I fly, and often text or call a...

DATE: Jun 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Thelma & Louise, a pandemic goal

Winter was looking bleak with no races, group running events, plays or concerts to fill in the chilly days and nights. Then in December, a friend suggested we train for an all women’s race h...

DATE: Jun 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Friend prefers telling tall tales over the truth

DEAR ABBY: Twenty years ago, I reconnected with a childhood friend. When we were in high school together, she used to love telling stories, not all of them true. Most were harmless and c...

DATE: Jun 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Mother can’t stand daughter’s girlfriend

DEAR ABBY: My college senior daughter, “Lisa,” insists on inviting her “significant other” to every holiday and to our home when she’s on break. This is Lisa’s first girl/girl romance, a...

DATE: Jun 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Interpretive programs elevate your outdoor experience

After a year of canceled in-person events, social distancing and isolation, San Juan Mountains Association has restarted its free, outdoor interpretive programming. Over the years, SJMA has...

DATE: Jun 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Olde Schoolhouse ready to rock

It’s been the premier music venue for north La Plata County. Despite its inability to hold hundreds of music lovers because of its size, and the reality that the building’s intent was to nev...

DATE: Jun 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Electric co-ops turn to solar, storage as fire threats increase

By Allen Best Energy News Network As drought and wildfire risks intensify across the Southwest, utilities are turning to solar, storage and microgrids to bolster electric grid resilie...

DATE: Jun 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

When eating with friends, make smart food choices

I had a dream I was dining in a restaurant, one full of people. There were large groups, all seated together. The bar was full. People were laughing, eating and hugging. Except this time, it...

DATE: Jun 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

When it comes to survival, don’t bet against this fish

I love fish – the way they look, the way they fry up, the secret lives they live under the water. And of all the fish in the sea, river or lake, I most prize those that descended from the gr...

DATE: Jun 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion