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Livestock weigh-in sets course toward La Plata County Fair

Last weekend, we had our Market Beef Weigh-in at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, where 31 4-H and FFA members brought their animals to get tagged, tattooed and weighed. In total...

DATE: Mar 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Happy host declines help in kitchen

Dear Abby: I have seen letters in your column from people upset that their guests don’t help them after dinner. I am the opposite. I held onto a poem you printed years ago and had it per...

DATE: Mar 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Letter: Support permanent Daylight Savings Time

A few years back a bill to effect a permanent time change was brought to the Assembly by two Denver Representatives. It was voted down. The main influencer was former Rep. Diane M...

DATE: Mar 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letter from Korla

A shrunken head, and the lost ‘Z’ and ‘J’

Dear Action Line: The noble effort to create an urban park out of the old Dalla property seems to be suffering from lack of follow-up and maintenance. The signage throughout is certainly...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Don Coram: You can’t pick and choose from the law

It is not a buffet. I marvel that people often talk about the Constitution without the understanding that it is a complete document. You do not get to pick and choose what you lik...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

A mosaic, not a melting pot: La Plata County and immigrants

Some bumper stickers read: “Colorado native.” Others offer: “Not native, but I got here as fast as I could.” We are a state of immigrants. Immigrants built the roads and bridges, ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Catalogs can guide your exploration of deep sky objects

Greetings, stargazers. It has been several years since I looked up a phone number in a printed book. But a generation ago, a phone book was an essential tool for anyone with a te...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Time to change the narrative

On March 1, Community Connections and the local disabled community participated in Disability Community Day of Mourning, honoring the memory of disabled victims of filicide. In the past five...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Time, technology change communication

Dear Abby: My twin sister moved to another state years ago. We always kept in close contact through telephone calls. But since the invention of caller ID, call waiting, cellphones, texti...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Mother longs to reunite her family

Dear Abby: I recently got into a huge fight with my boyfriend, which caused us to break up and me to move two hours away to stay with my mom. We have a beautiful 6-month-old daughter, an...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Summer programs will get young, old into the outdoors

Imagine yourself as a kid again. It’s spring and you can hardly sit still in class as you gaze out the window and watch puffy clouds drift by on a warm breeze. The early flowers ...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

The chef and dietitian: Make the best of both worlds

A chef and a dietitian walk into a bar ... From the beginning of our relationship, which just so happened to start while working in a bar, Sean and I have always found a common in...

DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

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