The Snowdown themes are chosen two years ahead from a pool of suggestions that the public submits. This allows event organizers some time to plan their events with that chosen…
President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) He cited…
I kept score at the first Snowdown softball game. I kept the stats for the first Snowdown Gelande jump. I marched in that first parade although I can’t remember which…
In 1990, I had 2-year-old twin boys and was pregnant with our daughter. I read a story on old-time patent medicines and really wished there was one to relieve cabin…
The core values of our county have been recently shaken due to the proposed Land Use Code (LUC) regulations. Thousands of citizens have become concerned. Our property rights are on…
I am opposed to the sale of marijuana in Bayfield, as I always have been. The shops will degrade the character of the town, whether you remember it (as I…
A failure by Congress to repeal a harsh limit on therapy treatments poses very real financial and medical threats to seniors already struggling from strokes or debilitating conditions like Alzheimer’s…
Nearly all the small lots along County Road 203 on the west side of the valley, and along CR 250 along the east side of the valley – that are…
There are so many things that make Snowdown special. That this year marks 40 (!) years of fun and frivolity stands out. Forty years of Snowdown could not happen without…
After printing, our software vendor informed all Colorado treasurers that there was a bug in the system that used the old assessment ratio of 7.96 percent when calculating the senior…
That is why the U.S. Forest Service is currently seeking to modernize their NEPA regulations for the first time in a quarter century; which, with over 100 million acres of…
But sometimes, showing up is how things get done. We have a big one coming up Tuesday, regarding marijuana sales in Bayfield. Should the town board lift its ban on…
I’m writing here to touch on the lack of support we received from the Durango Police Department upon filing a police report. First, it took over twenty minutes for the…
Why? Because it’s not life this group is supporting, it’s birth. If groups like this truly supported life, the Children’s Health Insurance Program would have been renewed months ago. Appropriate…
Obviously, most of the more than 1,000 citizens at the meeting on Jan. 16th share my view. I understand that the county authorized a Texas firm, at a cost of…
The rights of the public to scrutinize the records and attend the meetings of public bodies are firmly ensconced in state statutes. Coloradans value those rights, and through many years…
Rather than do their work, they resorted to purchasing an atrocious document from some outfit that knows nothing of life nor the people of La Plata County. Apparently this outfit…
Skiing is one of the main reasons I relocated to Durango. I cannot help but think if this winter might be the new normal and of the implications that has…
What was to be a listening meeting was an hour-plus of commissioners’ talking points on improving permitting. What the commission revealed is several failed attempts at land use code updates.…
Terry Fiedler, Linda Mannix and some other folks whose names now escape me had started the looniness a few years before, and they did such a great job that you…
The Durango Herald failed to mention, in its Jan. 17 article about this meeting, the two most important facts we found out that night: First, our commissioners did not even…
Instead, his statement mostly covers people arrested during the “War on Terror,” which includes wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and multiple other points around the globe. These people, of course, are…
I’m sick and tired of all the junk cars, machinery junk, and unused trailers dotting the landscape of our beautiful county. You have nothing to say if your neighbors have…
This is not a partisan issue. Without this action, Congress becomes complicit in the denigration of social standards we expect society’s leaders to follow. I would say Congress needs to…
