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Bitter feelings for mean teacher persist

DEAR ABBY: My elementary school teacher passed away recently. I hadn’t seen her in more than 20 years because of how she made me feel. I remember her as manipulative and having a negative at...

DATE: Nov 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Partner wants intimacy only with a third person

DEAR ABBY: I’m in an open relationship with my partner. We both enjoy hooking up with other people, but only if we agree on the person. It was going great; I still got my one-on-one time wit...

DATE: Nov 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Finding gratitude for our privileges

This is a time of year when a lot of Americans stop and take stock of the many blessings we have. Along with turkey, ham, tamales, shrimp cocktail, frozen pizza or whatever your family enjoy...

DATE: Nov 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Healthy adherer effect

I recently had the opportunity to visit my dad just before his 94th birthday. By far the member of his biological family to survive to the oldest age, I remain both grateful for and amazed b...

DATE: Nov 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties

Well, I hope you survived Halloween and the leftover candy blood-sugar spikes. Now bring on the Christmas decorations. (Please don’t!) We already have massive overlapping of the major sports...

DATE: Nov 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

In conversation, instead of arguing, try ‘I hear you’

Here we are, already into November. Not just any November, but an election year November. As if conversations with family during the holidays need any more fuel for the fire! How quickly a j...

DATE: Nov 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

The Waco Brothers help celebrate KDUR

Thirty years back, Chicago-based musicians Dean Schlabowske and Jon Langford didn’t know much about country music. They knew about rock ’n’ roll and its many offshoots in the form of “indie”...

DATE: Nov 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Acidic mine drainage haunts Western rivers

It was summer 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such a garish orange-gold that it made national news. The metallic color came from the Gold King Mine, near the town of S...

DATE: Nov 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

McLachlan reflects on 8 years of service listening, compromising and understanding

Only 100 Coloradans at any one time have the job I have been honored to hold for the last eight years as a State Legislator; I never really thought about that until I started nearing the end...

DATE: Nov 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Comet’s appearance illuminates Durango’s dark sky policy

Dear Action Line: Recently, we were gifted with the return of a once-every-80,000-years comet. From the college mesa, as I scanned the horizon, my eyes were constantly assaulted by some ...

DATE: Nov 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Giving thanks for fly fishing

My research, using the ever-reliable internet, indicates that modern-day fly fishing was the invention of Charles Cotton, an English poet and aristocrat, sometime in the late 1600s. He was a...

DATE: Nov 3, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

Vote 'no’ on Proposition 127: Keep our big cats in the hands of science, not the ballot box

I usually avoid discussing politics with those outside my inner circle. However, failing to explain why I oppose Proposition 127 would be doing a disservice to my former colleagues and lifel...

DATE: Nov 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns