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End of summer fun at San Juan Brewfest

The Four Corners’ favorite beer-tasting festival is the San Juan Brewfest. The Brewfest is your ticket to end of summer fun while supporting a great cause at the same time. This event is one...

DATE: Aug 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Traveling with disabilities can be challenging

Summer is wrapping up soon, and with it, the wave of summer travel. With longer days, good weather, children out of school and the number of outdoor activities available, summer has long bee...

DATE: Aug 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Back-to-school immunizations available at Public Health Clinic

Getting children ready for the new school year can be a busy time. A priority for many families is getting their students up-to-date on immunizations. The La Plata County Public Health Depar...

DATE: Aug 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Join me in reminiscing and remembering toys and games from our childhood

I recently read an article on Joan Anderson, the woman who brought the hula hoop from Australia to 1950s America. She died in July at the age of 101. She and her husband pitched the idea to ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Grandma ignores request not to drive around

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are blessed with a 6-month-old son, “Tyler.” I’m now back at work three days a week. My mother and my mother-in-law offered to watch him one day a week, which we ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

The power of collaboration

The verb collaborate is “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor.” Collaboration, the noun, might need a subdefinition of; messy, slow, argumentative, ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Around the world not counting days: A solo trip in 1958-1959

Imagine being a college graduate in history and then deciding to seek an education. That’s exactly what young John Kessell did in 1958 by ship, train, bus, airplane, Land Rovers, Morris Mini...

DATE: Aug 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Stillhouse Junkies release concept album

A proper LP should be more than a handful of singles and some throwaway cuts. True music lovers know that sometimes a record deserves a proper beginning to end listen, where you start with t...

DATE: Aug 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

‘Soulmate’s’ appearance could derail marriage

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been happily married for 31 years. I love my wife, but we are now more like roommates or friends than the lovers we were initially. We are also not soulmates. We both agree t...

DATE: Aug 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Coal gets a boost while renewables – and life on Earth – are gutted

A few years back, my friend Norm told me that when he was growing up in northern New Mexico in the 1950s and early ‘60s, his family often drove up to the La Plata Mountains in southwestern C...

DATE: Aug 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Rep. Jeff Hurd has turned his back on Colorado’s 3rd District

When Rep. Jeff Hurd voted in favor of the final version of H.R. 1 – the bill that was ultimately signed into law – he didn’t just fall in line with Washington politics. He turned his back on...

DATE: Aug 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A fly fisher two-steps to help Texas

Spend some money in the communities affected to help local economy

DATE: Aug 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Flies & Lies

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