Eager to get gardening? Here’s what to plant now

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears every other week during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggest...

DATE: Apr 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Get Growing

Clubhouse Porch

I hope you all will enjoy the change from my long-standing Wednesday column to a Thursday feature. The change now allows me to get more timely results from earlier in the week and get them t...

DATE: Apr 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Clubhouse Porch

Madonna, Batman and friends bowl for Big Brothers

When Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado was founded in 1984, we “really, really liked” Sally Field, Madonna was recalling what it felt to be “Like a Virgin,” “Ghostbusters” was t...

DATE: Apr 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Bailing banks out: We don’t like it, but we do it

The first “recorded” financial crisis in the U.S. occurred in 1792. That’s just five years after the Constitution was adopted. Seems the crisis happened when Alexander Hamilton decided to es...

DATE: Apr 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Noir fiction ‘How’s the Pain?’ is a sleeper

Noir fiction is an ill-defined style of storytelling that for crime fiction readers has a clear but differing sense of meaning. Noir is an English corruption of the French word n...

DATE: Apr 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Action Line City fire-infrastructure signs spark curiosity

On the outside, northeast corner of the Steamworks building, there’s a commemorative metal plaque that says “Fire Dept. Conn.” What’s the Fire Department of Connecticut doing in Durango? Sig...

DATE: Apr 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

The true (?) story of spring weather, Cortés

Four seasons in your face – all at nearly the same time. When it’s T-shirt weather, don’t get smug. Take a jacket with you. When flakes fall, don’t go racing for the sn...

DATE: Apr 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: John Peel

Early detection aids autism treatment

Last month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated statistics on the prevalence of autistic spectrum disorder among children. The results, compiled ...

DATE: Apr 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Inventory impacting local housing market

Last week, the Colorado Association of Realtors and the Durango Area Association of Realtors released their first-quarter real estate statistics. In a nutshell, the number of prop...

DATE: Apr 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate

Sometimes it’s good to get out in the desert and simply ‘be’

Getting to the desert was like a backwards game of Twister – untangling ourselves from work, homestead responsibilities, the comfort of warm beds and stocked fridges. There’s alw...

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

Advocates raise awareness of mental health in May

Since 1949, May has been observed as National Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental Health Awareness Month is important because mental-health issues can affect anyone at any time during his ...

DATE: Apr 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Budget is done, but work isn’t over

The budget has passed the House and Senate and is awaiting the governor’s signature. I have previously outlined the controversial process for the funding of Fort Lewis College’s Berndt Hall ...

DATE: Apr 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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