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County fair stokes memories of grandma’s roses, pickles

Way back when, perhaps as far back as the late 1970s, I remember going to the fair with my grandma. And while my memories are a bit hazy, I seem to recall her taking me to see two things: he...

DATE: Jul 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Don’t let agencies break promises about new wells

Have you ever been played for a fool? Go to that place with me. Which was worse: the anger that dawned on you upon realizing you’d been had or the shame in admitting you had let i...

DATE: Jul 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Clubhouse Porch

I am not a gambling man. Once, however, I did get in on an office World Series pool where you put your name in a square among hundreds of squares, and they cross reference your ...

DATE: Jul 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Clubhouse Porch

City should rethink pot, vacation-rental rules

By Brieanne Stahnke It’s nice to go downtown to forget all your troubles and forget all your cares. There’s music, shopping and fun downtown. It’s where all the lights are bright....

DATE: Jul 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Knowledge put to test to benefit arts center

It wasn’t the “What did you know? And when did you know it?” kind of grilling but the fine points of geography, literature, sports and history that were involved in Super Ted’s Super Trivia ...

DATE: Jul 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Warning: Don’t make the same mistakes I did

Alaina Tweddale, of the personal finance website Wise Bread, recently interviewed me about how my wife, Cheri, and I paid off $165,000 in debt and saved $20,000 in just 15 months. ...

DATE: Jul 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Money Savvy

Voyeurism and deceit dominate ‘The Stone Boy’

Some of the European press have mentioned Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 “Rear Window” when effusing about Sophie Loubière’s new book, The Stone Boy. It’s a simplistic comment but not a bad insinua...

DATE: Jul 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Bringing the past into the present

Durangoan returning to help native Nepalese village

DATE: Jul 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: John Peel

Drive is on for park that seems to be stuck in neutral

Memorial Park looks more and more like a war zone. Four blocks of good, lush, green grass are dead. Big piles of dirt, equipment and tattered orange fences make it impossible to walk through...

DATE: Jul 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Are you paying attention to your thirst?

I’m always amused when I visit the Bar D and the Wranglers sing the lyrics of the old Bob Nolan song “Cool Water.” It never fails as they harmonize about the barren waste and their dry throa...

DATE: Jul 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

‘The kids will appreciate this when they’re older’

We’re at 10,500 feet, tents tucked in the tall spruce, the La Plata River bending clear and cold below us. Wildflowers splatter the slopes like a Jackson Pollack painting. Dan rigs tarps fro...

DATE: Jul 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood

Who should pay for mistake? United or me?

A booking error by a United Airlines agent forces Evelyn Jaffe to pay for a new flight to Hawaii. Is she entitled to a refund? I am writing to you for advice and help regarding a ...

DATE: Jul 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

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