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When it comes to aging well, MIND diet really can matter

My annual nutrition conference focused this year on healthy aging and the brain. Discussion included disease prevention, healthy aging and function-preserving strategies. One spe...

Making your home ‘pop’ can help get that sale

Would you like to sell your home this summer? The keys to success are presenting your home and pricing your home. In the first of this two-part series, we will look at presenting...

Agriculture counts, locally and nationally

Agriculture is one of the oldest and most important professions. From the beginning of time, people have discovered methods to produce their own food, and since then, the methods have improv...

A year later, Pearl Harbor reverberates

Pearl Harbor was still on Durangoans’ minds as the first anniversary of the attack arrived. After the trying days of 1941, on all battle fronts, optimists could see better days coming throug...

Durango High drama program continues to impress on stage and off

School is out for most Durango High School students and staff, except for a notable group of high achievers. For 15 members of Troupe 1096, the DHS drama program, and program director Ben Ma...

Lunches: From nothing to over-the-top

Lunch and dinner in the Southeast, it is a very important time of the day. It’s especially important after a fun-filled, active morning of fly fishing. It’s what is needed to recharge your b...

Check out Concerts @ the Park series this summer

With the weather warming up and the kids out of school, now is the time to enjoy the outdoors in all of the great ways that Durango has to offer. Not the least among these is the...

Helpful hints to grow a healthy crop of tomatoes

It’s the first week of June, which is typically the time when I write the “it’s the first week of June, it may be safe to plant those warm-season crops in the vegetable garden” article. ...

Big birthday is reminder to live in the moment

There’s a big birthday on my horizon this month. It’s one that has a zero. Yikes! It’s interesting to watch myself cling to the decade before this new one. Somehow, aging up to a...

Cactus can add variety to your garden, kitchen

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by members of the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features tips and suggestions for ...

Johns Hopkins ‘medical error’ study delivers false conclusion

The authors of a paper from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine wrote: “If medical error was a disease, it would rank as the third leading cause of death in the U.S.” The lay press c...

Farmington’s Roth represents Four Corners in style

I find myself in one of those rare moments in golf when a columnist can write about a local golf professional who distinguished himself among some of the greats in the game. I a...