Outfitters and recreation enthusiasts continue their fight for national monument status for Browns Canyon.Courtesy of Mason Cummings BUENA VISTA – Browns Canyon has provided the gift of beauty and recreation…
Report says Connect for Health Colorado’s accounting needs tightening
The Southwest Center for Independence has a number of free items for people with disabilities. One item is a handcrafted wheelchair ramp for two steps, not fully ADA compliant, with…
Courtesy of Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences<br><br>Richard Stehouwer, associate professor of environmental soil science, performs a chemical analysis with agricultural students in a lab at the school in University…
Members of the maintenance group at Western Excelsior started a class inside the electronics mobile learning lab at their plant. Pueblo Community College has been recognized for its mobile learning…
BRANDON MATHIS/Durango Herald<br><br>Authorities responded to a man who was found dead at the Durango Downtown Inn on Sunday. The cause of death has not yet been determined. The body of…
John Arnett, of Hesperus, prepares to ski off a ridge near Minnehaha Basin north of Silverton on Friday. While the San Juan Mountains have snow, the National Weather Service forecasts…
Tech-Petting Zoo to be held Tuesday The Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., will host a Tech-Petting Zoo from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and from 9:30 to 11…
Arts and Entertainment Four Corners Arts Forum, 9 a.m., KDUR 91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org. Organic Parks celebration: Drum Dance Party, 3-5 p.m., with Durango Drums, www.turtlelakerefuge.org. Joel Racheff, 5:30 p.m., Diamond…
Nearly 1,000 cyclists sign up for Durango’s classic in person
Meetings and Events Community Connections’ “Festival of Trees” celebration, 1-6 p.m. Sunday and Dec. 12-14, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Train Museum, 479 Main Ave. Arts and Entertainment Irish…
The Native American Winter Arts Market attracted dozens of vendors selling jewelry and other art Saturday at Durango High School. Robert Charley of Aneth, Utah, was offering Navajo protection arrows,…
The beginnings of the present-day Honeyville was the product and ingenuity of Vernon Culhane, who was nicknamed “The Falfa Honey Man.” The business now is owned by Danny Culhane, his…
Jeff Estes founded Durango Bike Co. in 2012 with his wife, Wendy Ayer. The custom mountain bike builder is beginning to break through, with positive reviews coming in from magazines…
The premise behind Animas Chocolate Co., established in 2011, started with an old chocolate recipe book and a love for baking. The boutique-style chocolate shop is owned by Carley and…
SoundTraxx, a Durango company that makes sound and control systems for model trains, plans to move by mid-2015 into a new headquarters in the Durango Tech Center. Construction of the…
Matt Vincent had long served as Ska Brewing Co.’s engineer when he confronted a problem: How do you get beer cans from the pallet to the conveyor to be filled?…
When Bryan Hargett decided to start his own leather manufacturing company in southern La Plata County, he had no idea his niche would be in the pet industry. He thought…
“I didn’t know whether I would sell five or 200,” said Sheri Tingey, the owner of Alpacka Raft, a locally owned business based in Mancos. As the years passed, she…
Courtesy of Justin Cash/Buttery Agency<br><br>What starts as a pile of lumber in the parking lot is carefully crafted into vintage split boards by Venture Snowboards in Silverton, a company that…
