du1-i-syn In 1913, Western Colorado Power Company, purchased DP&L and operated until the early 1970’s when La Plata Electric Association purchased WCPC’s power lines and distribution system and provided power…
The professional staff at Mercy Medical Center immediately had me in the state-of-the art catheterization unit, installed two stents in my right coronary artery, and after three days in the…
Along with others who benefit from a single-payer health care system, I remain somewhat protected from the current chaos. If you are over 65, a U.S. government employee or retiree…
Durango needs to educate not only some of our young, naive locals but also our tourists, who know nothing about the power of our river. Plain and simple, people are…
Courtesy of Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management<br><br>Ruined tower, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, BLM Colorado. Hovenweep style Painted Hand Pueblo, Great Pueblo period: AD 1100 to 1300du1-i-syn That…
Facing the possibility of being homeless in our senior years is unnerving! We were unprepared for retirement with medical bills and high premiums. Homeless people are the elderly, people with…
Don’t think about it in that way, just think about it in the terms of leaving our planet as clean as possible for our children and grandchildren. It’s not a…
If you could find it in your heart to give us prohibitively expensive for-profit health care, tax breaks for the rich, hate-filled rhetoric, fewer national parks and monuments, more pollution,…
When I click on The Durango Herald website, it takes so long that I often just forget and go on to something else. Andrea Powers Dolores
We want to give our thanks to the Red Cross, the Humane Society, the restaurants and residents who sent food and supplies to the center, the Econo Lodge, Lightner Creek…
Colorado is prized for its public lands and near-pristine environment. If we care about protecting our state’s land and economy from climate change, we have no business expanding coal mines.…
Let me be clear: We appreciate the collaboration between the Dolores Water Conservancy District and other stakeholders to improve the management of the river below the McPhee Dam and state…
A few of the items that we would like back, if possible, include: 22 pistol, automatic 9-shot hi-standardBlack powder flintlock muzzle-loader pistolCustom-made, Kentucky-style 41-caliber muzzle-loader rifleLarge collection of elk and…
This condition, or affliction, can infect not just his supporters but others as well. It’s easy to acquire; one loses the ability to care what others think, and not in…
du1-i-syn As Dolores Water Conservancy District manager, I appreciate the fact that the Journal’s reporter called me and Sam Carter, President of Dolores River Boating Advocates, to give us a…
We did a blessing at the Rotary Park bridge when a group of four tubers came along. Just after the foot bridge, two were caught in an eddy behind a…
JERRY McBRIDE/Herald file<br><br>A colorful male Colorado cutthroat that was one of the first generations to be raised in the Durango Fish Hatchery.du1-i-syn Some local residents, and many long-time summer visitors…
The most recent people that we would like to thank are Zukes and Purgatory Ski Resort for the proceeds of the Mutt Strut going to WolfWood. Vantiv and StoneAge have…
Our 22-member LV5 leadership class conducted a food and clothing drive July 12, 15 and 16 for Pine River Shares, a local, community-run nonprofit. We went door-to-door in the community…
In steps Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to fill this leadership void with a commitment for Colorado to cut greenhouse gas emissions and join the U.S. Climate Alliance. The Alliance is…
Why are there so many dead trees? Apparently the mountain pine beetle and the spruce beetle, the insects that kill these trees, used to be kept in check by our…
Don’t let people from Texas ruin Durango. Maurice Harrigan Pittsboro, N.C.
In addition, they call the media “the enemy of the people.” Republicans are pro-gun, torture, more nuclear weapons, big oil, cigarette manufacturers, all corporations, Russia, non-taxed foreign bank accounts, building…
The expression “cannon fodder” was given to the men who were sent to die for a war they didn’t understand while the wealthy and higher military officers remained unscathed. From…
Many times the AP has been caught fabricating the news, with some of the worst instances having been during the Iraq war. Very few stories by the Associated Press can…
du1-i-syn But with easier to acquire gas elsewhere in the country, in Mesa County to the north and in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, the boom has been off since the 2014…
There is already a dangerous parking problem at the dog park. A new footbridge to the park could be erected a few yards north from the sewer plant rapids, and…
I have a coworker here in Austin who also vacations in the Durango area. When I asked him about his family vacation there this year he said that after 10…
du1-i-syn Weminuche bighorns are listed by the U.S. Forest Service as a sensitive species, meaning there is concern for their long-term viability. Domestic sheep carry strains of pneumonia that are…
