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How will our sun end?

Greetings stargazers. Happy monsoons. Even if I haven’t seen many stars in the past week, at least the plants in the garden have been happy. In about five billion years or so, our sun will ...

DATE: Aug 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Boosting brain power through nutrition

We’ve all experienced it, that moment when you can’t think of the word, and you just sort of babble as you try and get your thoughts straight. This mental “clouding” has been labeled brain f...

DATE: Aug 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Don’t panic and pitch: Hazardous waste day is coming!

Dear Action Line: We recently moved to Durango and are having trouble finding a place to dispose of pesticides that the previous owners left. Any advice is appreciated. – Ruth Dear Ruth...

DATE: Aug 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Off the beaten path: The story on social trails

Here are a few reasons to stay on the beaten path

DATE: Aug 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘Current weather worse than prior times’

In reponse to a guest column in The Colorado Sun on July 19, Trish Zornio said: “Fifteen years ago not having an AC in this part of Colorado was probably fine. Now it’s not thanks to climate...

DATE: Aug 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Young dog has become a nuisance and a danger

DEAR ABBY: I am a retiree with diabetes and heart trouble. My husband is disabled. I’m his sole caregiver when I have the energy to do it. Our adult daughter lives with us and works full tim...

DATE: Aug 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

There is still a scandal around president Joe Biden

One of the Biden White House’s greatest achievements, from the perspective of its staff members, if not necessarily the country, has been to deny the press the kind of juicy leaks that were ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Project 2025 puts public lands in peril

Google “Project 2025.” It’s a 920-page manifesto for a potential second Trump administration that has something (bad) for everyone, but our great public lands estate is put in particular per...

DATE: Aug 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Nuclear cheerleading is fine – but what about the cost?

It mystifies me, this perfervid belief in nuclear energy that I see in parts of Colorado. Just weeks ago, the commissioners in one Western Slope county added their support for nuclear. They ...

DATE: Aug 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Paddling Birch Creek, Alaska: Dispatch from a warming world

This summer, with Fort Lewis College alumni and a current FLC history student, seven of us canoed Birch Creek, which is one of Alaska’s wild and scenic rivers east of Fairbanks. We paddled f...

DATE: Aug 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

‘Content to move at a cow’s pace. Ungulates amble’

I like cows. Yes, I am a bovinophile. They are warm cuddly independent beasts who choose to go through life at their own pace. If you want to befriend a cow, you must adapt to its leisurely ...

DATE: Aug 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Unstable relative reappears as dad’s health declines

DEAR ABBY: My aunt frequently cuts people out of her life for perceived slights – small, large and imagined. A few years ago, she got into a fight with my dad (her brother). Somehow, the res...

DATE: Aug 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby