I am so sad to be losing our beloved newspaper. Thank you for your heroic efforts over the years to keep our community in print. Pine River Valley folk were…
The Pine River Library wants to thank all of our donors last year. Your help contributed to alleviating our revenue shortfalls. Although a shortage of $135,000 remains for 2019, the…
Last week Donald Trump’s very rich Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross poo-poo’d the struggles of those 800,000 federal employees who’d gone a month without pay, including those required to work in…
Mr. Fredrickson’s letter (“ Obviously, Mr. Fredrickson is an anomaly. Evidently, Mr. Fredrickson has never made a mistake. One mistake does not define a man’s career. Having worked with Mr.…
The Grandview entrance to Durango deserves consideration. The San Juans already speak to you, with their magnificent splendor, as you round the curve on Camino Del Rio. Shouldn’t the city…
I appreciate your editorial (“ I also find the proposal objectionable because it taxes us just outside the city limits, but we can’t vote on it. The majority of new…
On Jan. 23, the Herald printed a letter, “ It is the way of despots to muzzle the press, imprison or kill reporters and control news outlets. The press is…
Democratic Senate majority moves quickly to abandon Electoral College
The article from Jan. 23 on home prices (“ We are recent transplants to the Durango area but know there are a number of second homes in the region, many…
The letter from Wendy Bryant (“ Too many signs actually has the opposite of the desired effect of directing our fine citizens. One has the tendency to tune out all…
This shutdown could have been over in 30 minutes if the mother trucker-in-command would have approved a cattle-guard on our southern border. Trump would look at this and in his…
I have written previously about the biased and unprofessional Herald coverage of the recent Dan Snowberger/School District 9-R issues. I argued that the media should let the 9-R board do…
I came out of the Rec Center to find a parking ticket on my car. To make maters worse, it was not a parking ticket! Upon inspection, the parking ticket…
The city needs to reconsider the Animas River Trail extension to Oxbow Park this year as budget shortfalls are cropping up everywhere. The put-in at Memorial Park II was just…
In response to the letter “ A simple fact-check of Mike Sigman’s letter would illustrate my point. By simply reading the AP and Washington Post articles, it becomes clear that…
Senior senator from Colorado gave a gratifying speech on the shutdown
Writing my last columns for the newspaper I owned for 12 years, then operated for another five, I’ve started to think about what in the heck I’ve covered for the…
The city is sending a tax hike to the April ballot – now comes the hard part
By P. WilLhoite Pine River Shares director Pine River Shares brings together the knowledge, skills and resources of people in the Pine River Valley to increase our collective power and…
“Transition.” Bah! Slamming shut the Pine River Times, an enterprise vital to several small but vigorous communities and replacing it with a page or two in the Friday edition of…
Bayfield community residents and stakeholders are invited to help shape the future of the school district by attending either of two strategic plan community input forums. They will take place…
Once again, our two-party system is failing us. The parties are unable to agree on anything, even if in the past they supported it, i.e. the wall. The failure to…
My recent letter, submitted to the Herald with the subject line “Don’t Discredit the Women’s Movement,” condemned the “atrocious statements,” “appalling anti-Semitic comments” and “unacceptable anti-Semitic statements” of Louis Farrakhan.…
I have lived here by Park School (East 6th Avenue) for 45 years and have never had a bear rummage through my trash. I keep it secured until the morning…
Wow, such quick action! Once the only fiscally responsible commissioner was replaced by a Democrat, it took less than a month for the three La Plata County commissioners to start…
City’s move to identify campaign contributors is right step for us
