Southwest Life https://www.durangoherald.com/feeds/southwest-life/ 2026-04-05 12:31:39 -0700 en-us https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/catholic-daughters-of-americas-scholarship-forms-available/ Court St. Anthony No. 1248 of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas announces that application forms for its 2026 scholarship are available at the entrances to the Catholic Churches in the area. The ... 2026-04-04 02:48:50 -0700 21dccf61-3db5-444a-8e58-841574e76e08 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/durango-public-library-hosts-hoa-program/ Durango Public Library will host “What Does a Quality HOA Look Like?” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. April 14 at the library, 1900 East Third Ave. This in-person, HOA Homeowner Education event will empower loca... 2026-04-04 02:41:48 -0700 217e0ae6-1bf6-477a-a4f5-99744d8bd80c https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/museum-presents-public-lands-patriotism-talk/ Dr. Andrew Gulliford will present a talk about “Public Lands Patriotism: 150 Years of Colorado's Federal Public Lands” at 1 p.m. April 25 at Animas Museum, 3065 West Second Ave., and on Zoom. There is... 2026-04-04 02:34:15 -0700 1b4fe5c6-0d3f-4cfc-98f9-2b7bb41f2303 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/colorado-farmers-battled-biblical-grasshopper-plagues-in-1876/ The specimen arrived in the offices of the Las Animas Leader in a glass bottle in late March 1876, courtesy of a local rancher: a grasshopper, about 1 inch in length, its wings not yet fully grown. “T... 2026-04-03 09:30:00 -0700 95e2bd28-195c-4d80-be52-c3f50e77277b https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/the-more-things-change/ We all know the adage “The more things change the more things stay the same,” right? Well, it rings true once again. I had an idea for this month’s column, so I went back to what I wrote this time las... 2026-04-03 09:00:00 -0700 925a8307-95c2-4044-a8b5-cfa7497481ff https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/the-razorback-suckers-how-grand-junctions-baseball-team-got-its-name/ Baseball returns to Grand Junction this summer, with a team whose name honors an endangered native fish – and nods to a winding, yearslong controversy that shocked some and delighted many others. Long... 2026-04-03 08:30:00 -0700 28744acb-7128-4f7f-ae4e-e3a5efa462ac https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/durango-la-plata-senior-center2424-main-ave-382-6445monday-930-a-m-intermediate-tai-chi/ Durango/La Plata Senior Center 2424 Main Ave., 382-6445 Monday 9:30 a.m.: Intermediate Tai-Chi 10:30 a.m.: Neo Delphi Meeting, Chair Yoga 12:30 p.m.: Cribbage, Duplicate Bridge 1 p.... 2026-04-03 05:00:00 -0700 4071f53a-3849-40c6-a357-85221b52d6c7 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/trump-plans-to-move-forest-service-headquarters-to-utah-and-shutter-research-sites-2/ SALT LAKE CITY – President Donald Trump’s administration will move the U.S. Forest Service headquarters out of the nation’s capital to Salt Lake City as part of an organizational overhaul that involve... 2026-04-02 03:43:35 -0700 22f47798-09fc-4dc7-ab79-e6aaf8acee54 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/holocaust-awareness-presentation-to-be-held/ Jeff Sambur will tell the true story of his parents’ escape from Europe during the Holocaust years at a presentation at 5:30 p.m. April 12 at Congregation Har Shalom. 2537 County Road 203. The talk wi... 2026-04-01 04:46:34 -0700 5e79433b-38f9-434e-acdf-bfd627d24461 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/ride-the-dsng-train-to-historic-tacoma-power-plant/ Join fellow history buffs for a special fundraising trip on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, benefiting the Animas Museum and the Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable. The train will... 2026-04-01 04:30:49 -0700 686d04d3-44bb-4f64-9103-33aa989942e4 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/field-trip-to-orchard-hub-to-be-held/ The next program of the Animas Valley Grange will be a tour of the Orchard Hub in Dolores 10 a.m. to noon April 11. The Orchard Hub is a 36-acre joint project of the Montezuma Orchard Restoration Pro... 2026-04-01 04:01:05 -0700 d9f5b62b-cfb4-43c9-9fff-5a173c39d436 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/grange-to-host-how-to-build-a-bluebird-house/ The Animas Valley Grange will host a presentation on “How to Build a Bluebird House” at 6:30 p.m. April 20 at the Animas Valley Grange Hall, 7271 County Road 203. Chuck Eckenrode, a volunteer at the D... 2026-04-01 03:54:42 -0700 0bf25a15-79b0-43c4-8d8b-434a42c5fa2e https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/colorado-black-equity-study-team-to-hold-community-listening-session/ The Colorado Black Equity Study team is hosting a community listening session at noon April 11 at Skyhawk Station, Room 118, at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive. Durango residents can learn about t... 2026-04-01 03:48:05 -0700 66047d1d-546b-4ccf-856b-556f8c8561cf https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/eleanor-bonds-celebrates-her-100th-birthday/ Happy Birthday to Eleanor Bonds, who celebrated 100 years on Feb. 27, 2026. A gathering of her four living children, spouses, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and a few friends of the family helped ... 2026-04-01 10:07:46 -0700 927e7286-e616-4b56-9b1c-dabc23ecc7bd https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/visits-to-national-parks-dipped-slightly-in-2025-after-a-record-breaking-year/ Visits to national parks dipped slightly in 2025 after a record-breaking year. The National Park Service recorded 323 million visits in 2025 at parks, historic sites, monuments and recreation areas, a... 2026-03-30 02:08:22 -0700 d9a60aab-835b-44db-bcdb-4b8ac58f4540 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/health-care-costs-in-colorado-will-grow-under-federal-policy-patient-advocates-say/ Patients and health care providers in Colorado on Tuesday expressed anxiety around high health care costs as a result of the Trump administration’s policies. At a virtual roundtable hosted by Healthie... 2026-03-30 02:04:41 -0700 eb9a344a-4769-4a12-9cba-972a9d6d1c68 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/as-the-blm-in-moab-opens-hundreds-of-miles-of-trails-to-e-bikes-colorado-land-managers-also-weigh-e/ Brian Martinez recently went out for a pedal near his home in Moab. He was on his mountain bike and saw a grandfather on an e-bike pedaling alongside his son and grandson. “They had found that fleetin... 2026-03-30 02:03:16 -0700 b5263743-46f8-407a-a275-f3f5fd7f5bbd https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/and-the-west-is-history-durango-high-school-ca-1916/ ... 2026-03-30 05:00:00 -0700 a3f2d41f-0f0b-43b4-bae4-b4309fdebc43 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/spring-resource-fair-to-be-held-april-1/ The Durango Education Foundation 2026 Spring Resource Fair will be held 4 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. The event will feature more than 50 local youth serv... 2026-03-27 11:05:48 -0700 0171eeeb-7e56-4a22-b4d0-9cd21eb4970a https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/your-home-your-power-building-energy-resilience-in-southwest-colorado/ Imagine a typical winter: temperatures dropped, a storm rolled in and your propane supplier can’t make it up your road. Or the bill arrives higher than you budgeted because prices spiked mid-winter, a... 2026-03-27 10:23:55 -0700 a938fb95-ca18-4251-b394-a7440da277f6 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/senior-center-calendar-205/ Durango/La Plata Senior Center 2424 Main Ave., 382-6445 Monday 9:30 a.m.: Intermediate Tai-Chi 10:30 a.m.: Neo Delphi Meeting, Chair Yoga 12:30 p.m.: Cribbage, Duplicate Bridge 1 p.... 2026-03-26 06:10:51 -0700 ccdd2a85-d377-4f71-9a23-40c961ef76e0 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/bridge-scores-428/ Durango Bridge Club online and in-person play. All pairs received 50+ percent March 13 – Club Championship First: K. Hasz/G. Westerwick Second: K. Davis/J. Walter March 15 – Open Pairs ... 2026-03-26 05:58:10 -0700 70560b5f-0172-401e-9f11-fed2a7f5db54 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/april-library-calendar/ Durango Public Library 1900 East Third Ave. Contact: 375-3380. Weekly events for youths Mondays, 2-4:30 p.m.: Lego Club. For ages 5-12. Using the library’s LEGO collection, design your own creatio... 2026-03-25 05:23:53 -0700 f9d07d47-aef0-4b32-9d41-14fa6f9f5294 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/and-the-west-is-history-cascade-flume-construction-1924/ ... 2026-03-23 05:00:00 -0700 5733d1af-e72d-4dd0-af31-9812d3a54d1e https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/congress-rejects-land-protections/ Over the past year, Congress has increasingly turned to a previously obscure legislative tool called the Congressional Review Act in order to get rid of protective land management decisions. Champions... 2026-03-21 09:00:00 -0700 bd211dd3-af11-4070-aeab-dd57c947dde9 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/support-local-youth-at-the-la-plata-county-4-h-community-garage-sale/ Spring has arrived, and for many of us that means it’s time to clean out closets, garages and storage spaces. As you begin your spring cleaning this year, I hope you will keep La Plata County 4-H in ... 2026-03-21 08:00:00 -0700 4ae6a330-a877-4397-8f64-4ab14a6a293f https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/apache-women-seek-court-intervention-as-federal-land-is-turned-over-for-copper-mining/ The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete, but a group of Apache women is as... 2026-03-20 01:27:14 -0700 9cd1c66f-db39-4cb1-9532-9f1acc677206 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/woman-who-self-published-book-about-coping-with-grief-after-husbands-death-convicted-in-his-killing/ PARK CITY, Utah – Kouri Richins, a Utah real estate agent who self-published a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death, was found guilty of aggravated murder in his killing f... 2026-03-20 01:26:38 -0700 9a3621b8-af0c-4798-9317-29c55569887e https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/senior-center-calendar-204/ Durango/La Plata Senior Center 2424 Main Ave., 382-6445 Monday 9:30 a.m.: Intermediate Tai-Chi 10:30 a.m.: Neo Delphi Meeting, Chair Yoga 12:30 p.m.: Cribbage, Duplicate Bridge 1 p.... 2026-03-20 05:00:00 -0700 6fb19b06-dbd5-4cc4-be31-91fed21188cf https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/and-the-west-is-history-st-patricks-day-supper-providers-1924/ ... 2026-03-16 05:00:00 -0700 1210446a-de17-4a43-85b0-4c4073bc2778