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Kicking it
A skateboarder performs aerial tricks, casting long shadows across the Durango Skate Park on Monday afternoon. After dipping below freezing for a few nights, the National Weather Service expects low…
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Riding the mayoral election high into 2015
Pro-cannabis advocates inch their way into Colorado politics
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FLC faculty wants more tenured profs
Report: Part-timers weaken academics at Fort Lewis College
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Mancos Public Library, 211 E. First St. in Mancos, will screen the film “GMO OMG” at 6 p.m. Oct. 23. A community discussion will be held afterward about the film.…
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Dayplanner Tuesday
Tuesdays Traveling Yard/Gardening Support, 10 a.m., April-October, rotating locations, [email protected]. Rotary Club of Durango meeting, 6 p.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave., 385-7899. “Education Matters: A Candidates’ Forum,” featuring Colorado…
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Arrr! LPEA has pirate-themed Halloween for kids
The addresses of the offices are 45 Stewart St. in Durango and 603 S. 8th St. in Pagosa Springs. Suggested age for kids is infant to 12-year-olds. Children must be…
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Getting cold? Warming trend starts today
The official low, at the Durango-La Plata County Airport, was 28 degrees, said Jim Pringle, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Junction. An official cooperative weather…
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Dayplanner Monday
“Doing your own divorce and/or custody in Colorado” seminar, 5:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 247-0266. La Plata County Board of County Commissioners “On the Road” meeting,…
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Applications are being accepted for upcoming vacancies on five Judicial District Nominating Commissions and on the Supreme Court Nominating Commission. Judicial nominating commissioners are volunteers and serve six-year terms, interviewing…
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Colo. residents to vote on giving rights to unborn
Similar efforts have failed twice before
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Punching their own tickets to the future
FLC workshop helps high schoolers land a college acceptance letter
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A little family fun never hurt anyone
Think stick-horse racing, horseback musical poker chairs and bicycle barrel races. The lawn-mower races stole the show. Rumor has it Durango Fire and Protection District Chief Daniel Noonan drives one…
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Candidates like old-fashioned ways
Local politicians use ads, but prefer talking face-to-face
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Party divide evident in U.S. House race
From climate change to regulation, familiar fault line separates Tapia, Tipton
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Dayplanner Sunday
Durango Flea Market, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. Mesa Verde Paint Horse Club’s Open Western-English Show with added Costume Class, 9 a.m., La Plata County…
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Police find 2 missing kids taken from La Plata County
Hughes Law enforcement for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office arrested the children’s mother, Kallisha Hughes, about 9:30 p.m. in Alto, New Mexico. She was being held in La Plata County…
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Electra Sporting Club will begin burning slash piles on club owned parcels north of Durango this winter when appropriate snow cover has fallen. Operations will take place in the Electra…
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And the West is History
“The Spanish Trails Fiesta stagecoach started its daily runs to help publicize the celebration in August of 1964. The stagecoach takes the children for rides free of charge.”Durango Herald file…
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Dayplanner Saturday
Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon, First National Bank parking lot. Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Bayfield Roadside Park, U.S. Highway 160. Canines for the Cure, registration, 9-10 a.m., Three Springs…
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The Blotter
Thursday 1:10 p.m. A man and a woman shoplifted from Albertsons, 311 W. College Drive. 5:41 p.m. A man in the 1400 block of Florida Road called police to report…
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Barkers are legendary
Rod Barker, owner of the Strater Hotel, talks with Penny Spittler, left, aka “Sadie Six-Shooter,” and Leslie Ashcraft, aka, “Fanny Anny,” who are in Durango for the seventh annual Durango…