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No one says night shifts are easy

Occasionally, I have described my career in emergency medicine as enduring 30-plus years of sleep depravation. Actually, it’s longer than that. In college, I worked several summe...

Choosing a home can be a personal thing

What type of home is right for you? In La Plata County, we are blessed with choices that are wide and varied, and they are influenced by your desired lifestyle. There are opportun...

Familiar Orion offers much to contemplate

Greetings, stargazers. Perhaps the most recognizable constellation in the winter sky is Orion. Many people unfamiliar with the night sky can at least recognize the three stars o...

Stay warm outdoors in the winter

By Mark Winkworth San Juan Mountains Association Getting outdoors in the winter is a great way to have fun and get some exercise, and staying warm is the key to fun an...

Local collaborative helping kids turn around truancy

Skipping school, do you picture a teenager who ditches class to avoid schoolwork? Maybe he or she just needs some discipline or motivation to get back into class? It turns out th...

Community bolstered exciting year at FLC

As 2014 draws to a close, I want to take this opportunity to thank those of you who support Fort Lewis College. We could not do what we do for our students without our alumni and friends. ...

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Udall guided by uniquely western perspective

Early lesson serves the mayor well

Mama taught me to write thank you notes at an early age. Often I grumbled, but it was required in my family. Here we are at the end of the year, and I am sending out my thank you notes. I’m ...

World should condemn ‘assembly line’ sterilizations

News media focused in November on more than a dozen deaths in India after women had surgery at a sterilization “camp.” Authorities suspect that the surgeon caused the deaths, so he is in pri...

Not just interested in the past

It’s easy to look at an archaeological society as a bunch of dusty old academics (or Indiana Jones) in pith helmets. Blame the movies for that. But the San Juan Archaeological Soc...

Mastery returns to shelves: great reissues of 2014

The music business can’t survive on new music alone. Many records are born again decades after their original release through the reissue, which often contains bonus material, ou...

And a ‘very Merry Christmas to all’

The holidays reach a climax today as many La Plata County residents gather with family and friends to enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day festivities. Four weeks of anticipatio...