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Solar planning and development underway

Rapid deployment of utility-scale solar projects is a critical piece to addressing climate change impacts associated with electricity generation. Utilities throughout the West are particular...

DATE: Feb 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Parents refuse to keep boy under control

DEAR ABBY: I host holiday meals for my out-of-town family. During the last one, my cousin’s 5-year-old son ran up and down the upstairs hallway pretty much nonstop the entire time. The floor...

DATE: Feb 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Efforts to connect are met by silence

DEAR ABBY: I am engaged to an amazing guy. We have been together a little more than two years. During our first year, his family was great to me. They acted as if they liked me. However, thi...

DATE: Feb 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

League of Women Voters ‘help voters wade through noise’

With a national election on the horizon, the fire hose of information has increased, flooding us through our computers, phones, televisions and mailboxes. It is often difficult to separate f...

DATE: Feb 16, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Surfrajettes bringing surf rock to Durango

Coastal regions aren’t the only places that can pump out surf bands. There’s great instrumental surf-rock bands everywhere, many coming from landlocked states, some even formed and reared in...

DATE: Feb 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

‘Benefit in bears acting like bears, not raiding ranches’

Is there any habit harder to break than harboring a grudge against an old adversary? Yet burying hatchets is exactly what it might take to conserve our wildlife, in the face of ever-increasi...

DATE: Feb 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Spectrum of Sweetness

We find ourselves past the resolutions of the New Year and at chocolate-laden Valentine’s Day. For some, navigating the dance of eating sugar can feel challenging and confounding. For othe...

DATE: Feb 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Nourishing Morsels

Mother can’t understand why son walked away

DEAR ABBY: I’ve always been close to my children, but now that they are adults, it seems I’m losing my connection with one of them. He married a girl of a different race, and while that does...

DATE: Feb 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Spreading outdoor education throughout the Four Corners

As we zoom into February, San Juan Mountains Association’s education team has donned winter gear and snowshoes to continue our programs among the snowy landscape. Some highlights for our edu...

DATE: Feb 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Playlist for the planets

Greetings stargazers. I have an astronomy music playlist, and know I am not the only one who has one. I was recently reminded of it because I sing with the Durango Choral Society and the th...

DATE: Feb 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Straight women trying to ‘flip’ gay man

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 41-year-old gay man. Although I was raised in a conservative, religious family, I’m out of the closet and proud to be living as myself. For much of my adult life, I have att...

DATE: Feb 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Do hikers and bicyclists need to be separated?

Dear Action Line: It’s no secret that Durango is the gateway to an incredible plethora of trails. DurangoTrails.org proudly shares that there are over 300 trails within 30 minutes of dow...

DATE: Feb 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.