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Tim’s top 10 for 2025

Another trip around the sun is almost over, and what a year it was. There are lots of things to celebrate and remember in 2025. Here is my top 10 list. The Durango Business District Improvem...

DATE: Dec 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Kudos to all those who kept San Juan Mountains Association going in 2025

It’s a busy time of year for families, retailers, shipping companies and, certainly, for nonprofits focused on successful fourth quarters. But it’s also time to reflect, and there are certai...

DATE: Dec 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Getting up to steam

The 25th Anniversary of the Durango Railroad Historical Society

DATE: Dec 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

When neighbors know where to turn, communities grow stronger

In rural communities like ours, we pride ourselves on looking out for one another. Yet, when it comes to navigating health and social services – especially for people living with limited res...

DATE: Dec 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Effort to be good grandfather fails

DEAR ABBY: Ten years ago, I connected with “Christi,” a daughter I fathered with a woman I was in a relationship with for a short time decades ago. We split before Christi was born. My ex-gi...

DATE: Dec 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Family’s collective mental health declining

DEAR ABBY: As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions. It has increasingly gotten on my mom’s nerves (she has also become more impatient an...

DATE: Dec 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Take the stress out of gift giving by adding meaning

Perhaps, like me, you have mixed feelings about gift-giving. It’s a joy to stumble across something and know instantly that thing or experience will be meaningful to someone. Conversely, whe...

DATE: Dec 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Tis the season for sweets … and smart choices

It’s the most wonderful time of the year … When loads of sweet treats and desserts make their way to our plates. Despite us all “knowing better,” the average American still is consuming too ...

DATE: Dec 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

The hazards of homelessness show ‘Housing First’ is practical, humane and cost-effective

I’d like to offer a bit of consolation and clarification. While I believe a majority of the public holds genuine sympathy for the hardship of homelessness, there remain those who are put of...

DATE: Dec 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Too late to leave narcissist?

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married to a narcissist for 28 years. He has gaslighted me for our entire 30 years together. He has had a “work wife” and a flirtation with the next-door neighbor hottie...

DATE: Dec 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Has the Purgatory logo always been upside down?

Dear Action Line, Rumor among the Purgatory Underground (which, maybe appropriately, sounds a bit like a ski mountain upside down) is that the longtime Purgatory Resort “hanging pen...

DATE: Dec 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Action Line

The End

After 20 years and over 200 columns, Don Oliver’s “Flies and Lies” is over

DATE: Dec 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Columnists

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