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Craft beer is big business in Durango

The Durango Business Improvement District represents commercial property owners in the Central Business District and along North Main Avenue, as well as the businesses in those properties. F...

DATE: Aug 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Rigby takes bowl of green chili to nationals

Durangoans can get blasé about being exceptional – national, world and Olympic contenders in sports; chefs competing on TV; one of the best small, Western, arts, outdoors towns in America .....

DATE: Aug 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Durango School District needs mill levy increase to invest in kids

Another year is upon us, and I’m happy to share that great things are once again in store for our students in Durango. We’ve worked hard to keep budget cuts as far away from our...

DATE: Aug 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Durango School News

‘Dr. Seuss’ vine trumps trail’s trees and bushes

There appears to be an invasive vine engulfing entire trees and shrubbery on parts of the Animas River Trail. It bloomed with pretty white flowers, but now it has seed heads that look like ...

DATE: Aug 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Action Line

When airline computers fail, everyone loses

Catastrophic computer outages that paralyze an entire airline are few and far between. Except this summer. Last month, Southwest Airlines canceled 2,300 flights after a router in ...

DATE: Aug 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Start fresh with designing your home

Some people can walk into a room, look around quickly and have a clear vision of what it will take to give it a fresh look and feel. Others walk into a room, yearn for a fresh look, but all ...

DATE: Aug 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate

School-Based Health Centers: Get in, get out, get back to class

Farewell, flip-flops and sunscreen. Hello, backpacks and No. 2 pencils. La Plata County youths head back to school this week. School-Based Health Centers are part of this transition, providi...

DATE: Aug 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Have feral cats around? Humane Society can help

By Chris Nelson La Plata County Humane Society Do you see a lot of cats hanging around your alley or maybe your barn? Do these cats not belong to your neighbors? Do you...

DATE: Aug 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Columnists

An electric-power giant could be poised to fall

David battling Goliath is a cliché. But how else to describe the struggle between a rural electric co-op and its powerful supplier of electricity? “David,” in this case, is the De...

DATE: Aug 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Celebrating INDIGO: DAC presents unique textile experience

The beauty of a single color is celebrated in dramatic waves of indigo-dyed cloth, enveloping your sense of space upon entering the Barbara Conrad Gallery at the Durango Arts Center. ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: View from the Center

An Olympic champion abroad, club champs at home

It took just 40,880 days to bring the sport of golf back to the Olympics, and think what we have missed from the first encounter back in 1904. Gone are wooden shafts, coats and ti...

DATE: Aug 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Clubhouse Porch

Oil, gas industry can’t counter NASA study on methane hot spot

The oil and gas industry is awfully, dangerously, predictable. This week, in response to NASA fingering oil and gas operations as the primary cause of the infamous Four Corners me...

DATE: Aug 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.