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Strange roadside object requires thinking outside the box

It’s a stupid question, but what’s that thing along U.S. Highway 550/160 by Basin Co-op? It looks like a metal box on top of a pole. It’s between the frontage road and the highway. I’ve been...

DATE: Feb 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

A little help to get by

Walkers, with their friends’ help, battling brain tumor

DATE: Feb 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: John Peel

Well-being or survival: What do we want?

A friend lent me the book Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande. It is on The New York Times best-seller list, Gawande has been on many talk shows recently, and there’s lots of buzz about this book....

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

Some like it hot: Soaking at New Mexico's Ojo Caliente

On frigid winter days with long winter nights, there's nothing like a soak in a natural hot springs and one of the most historic in the Southwest is at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The ins and outs of title insurance

When purchasing real estate, a buyer generally requests that the seller provide title insurance. The first step to obtaining title insurance is for a title company to do a title s...

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate

It’s not easy to change your mind

When a child dies from a head injury, an “undetermined” manner-of-death certification may be seen as an act of cowardice or an act of courage. Brookelynn Palmer, the 13-month-old ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Coroner's Report

The young farmer crisis

Support the next generation producing our food supply

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

A threat to neighborhood character, safety

We don’t have much distress about new accessory dwelling units that might be built in our neighborhoods – as long as a majority of residents support this idea, the city pro-actively enforces...

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Even ‘American Sniper’ trailers too close

Many people, including my family, have asked me if what is in the movie “American Sniper” is true and is it what veterans go through and what you went through. Truthfully, I have not seen th...

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Steampunk dystopia and the future of water, mineral law

Steampunk garb is being stored with an ungoggled eye toward future costume opportunities. The Snowdown revelry – styled in Victorian Apocalypse – is fading into mid-winter dream. Strange met...

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

VFW post deserves community support

My husband and I, visiting from Queens, New York, look to visit Veterans of Foreign Wars posts as we travel. We were happy to find one open in Durango, especially with Christmas lights on di...

DATE: Feb 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Cornutt leaving Big Brothers Big Sisters

Being an effective executive director of a nonprofit is a challenging enterprise, requiring the ability to raise money, manage staff and boards, guide an organization to meet its mission and...

DATE: Feb 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

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