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Local libraries host virtual wilderness program

In celebration of Earth Day, Fort Lewis College professor Andrew Gulliford will present a virtual program, “Wilderness and America,” from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday on Zoom. In 1964, C...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community Voices

Local residents grateful for vaccine

Thank you, Karen Zink, Anne Markward, Doug Walker, Charley Kier, Karen Midkiff and the 300 to 400 volunteers who saw the need and organized the COVID-19 vaccination program at the fairground...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community Voices

Great Decisions Durango to hold seventh discussion

Great Decisions Durango will hold its seventh discussion at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday on Zoom. The topic will be “Struggles over the melting Arctic.” Moderator Guinn Unger will present ...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community Voices

Durango Public Library Advisory Board accepting nominations

Durango Public Library Advisory Board will accept nominations for the 2021 Library Community Champion Award through June 4. Applications are available at Recognizing that the success of an...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community Voices

Trail Crew Brew to launch Thursday

Durango Trails will hold its spring fundraiser and 30th anniversary event from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday at Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St. The Earth Day celebration will include the la...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community Voices

Durango Home & Ranch Show to take place

Durango Home & Ranch Show will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 24 and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 25 at La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. The show will feature...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community Voices

Distance tests strength of engagement

Dear Abby: I’ve been in a long-distance relationship for 2½ years. We are now engaged, but haven’t set a date for our wedding. We are both in the military, and we have mainta...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Susan Atkinson: Carbon pricing is key to halting climate change

It’s easy to feel helpless, depressed and overwhelmed about the recent news of climate-related disasters affecting Colorado. Increased temperatures and drought intensify our vulnerability to...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Accusations fly after friend gets COVID-19

Dear Abby: A friend of 35 years recently accused me of exposing her and her mother to COVID-19. She told me she thinks I did it on purpose because I thought so little of them. This is no...

DATE: Apr 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Terry Rickard, Durango’s jukebox

Local musician Terry Rickard is kind of like Durango’s jukebox. If you’ve bellied up to the bar in any Durango watering holes over the last 25 years, you’ve likely seen Rickard w...

DATE: Apr 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Denise Fort: Water can be wrung out too much

Santa Fe, New Mexico, once was sustained by the waters of the Santa Fe River, which begins in the high country of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, flows through the city and then onward to th...

DATE: Apr 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Charles Blow: White supremacists fear “white replacement”

Last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson caused an uproar by promoting the racist, anti-Semitic, patriarchal and conspiratorial “white replacement theory.” Also known as the “great replacemen...

DATE: Apr 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns