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Endings and beginnings

ENDINGS: Among the many delights of the 38th Music in the Mountains summer festival memorable solo performances top the list. Dazzling the audience on July 26, the Russian-American pianist O...

Amelia White and Carter Sampson hit Durango

It all started for Amelia White with a Martin guitar. The now Nashville, Tennessee-based musician was reared on instruments typical of your grade school band, but once a guitar fell into her...

Church leader lies about infidelity

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Silas,” and I have been married for 30 years. He is the deacon and Sunday school teacher at our church. (His brother is the pastor.) Silas had a two-year affair with ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Off the beaten path: The story on social trails

Here are a few reasons to stay on the beaten path

‘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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...