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Keeping the ancients warm: Ancestral Puebloans created turkey feather blankets

I love seeing turkeys in ponderosa woods, moving slowly uphill like priests absorbed in morning prayers. At twilight, they are dark shapes seeking acorns and insects, always leav...

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

Gemini and its twins offer much to explore

Greetings, stargazers. Our season of conjunctions and comets ended when Venus and Jupiter passed each other on the morning of Feb. 11. Now, I plan to revisit a few constellations...

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

The old normal was only working for some in the population

As the new vaccines begin to surge into the arms of our friends, families and neighbors, many of us are starting to envision what life after COVID-19 may look like. The pandemic has changed ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Student has trouble getting homework help

Dear Abby: My mom is mad at me. I have been a little bad, but I always do the dishes, sweep, clear the table and take out the trash. Every day when school is finished, I wait for Mom to ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Laurie Meininger: League of Women Voters honors Black women suffragists

As we celebrate Black History Month, the League of Women Votes would like to bring special attention to the contributions of women of color in the suffragist movement and to the 100 years of...

DATE: Feb 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Programs help children explore outdoors up close

With subzero temperatures and snow one week, then warm sun followed by rain and thunderstorms and T-shirt weather the next, it seems like the weather is confused about what season it is. ...

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

Woman frets about ending relationship

Dear Abby: My now-ex and I had a complicated, four-year on-again, off-again relationship. I finally ended it five months ago, but I’m still not sure whether I made the right choice. ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

The Warren G. Hardings came together from jam sessions

Not many musicians can say they got into a certain style of music because their mom snuck them into a concert. But its how mandolin player Gabriel Marowitz was turned onto bluegrass, after h...

DATE: Feb 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

A long walk inspires plans for a week of meals

According to my calculations, over the past 11 months, we’ve prepared about 980 meals at home. Three meals a day, every day. If I could tally the countless requests for snacks, I would. ...

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

How to make the rest of this school year worthwhile? Skip it.

I never did fifth grade. The summer after I finished fourth, my family moved to Vienna. When my parents called to enroll me in the a local school, the principal said the fifth-gr...

DATE: Feb 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Your thyroid and your weight loss

If you are worried about your thyroid, think it may be causing you to gain weight or have noticed your thyroid numbers changing as you lose weight, read on. In addition to weight ...

DATE: Feb 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

Cameras don’t sit well with sitter

Dear Abby: I enjoy babysitting for the children of family and friends. But while I have nothing to hide, I hate how everyone seems to have inside cameras. I feel like I’m in a fishbowl, ...

DATE: Feb 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby