Francisco Rios, left, and Oscar Abarca with Durango Handyman renovate the kitchen at the Volunteers of America’s Durango Community Shelter, which serves homeless men, women and children. Durango’s three Rotary…
More analysis needed, forest supervisor says
The Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum will be open weekdays only from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to Friday until Memorial Day weekend. School groups can call to…
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At a recent award ceremony, registered nurses were honored in two categories; nurses working in clinical practice and nurses working in administration, education, research or non-traditional practice. Winners include Susan…
Commissioner Julie Westendorff, a real estate agent, said she has had Ignacio houses to sell, but “A lot of them are old and leak heat.” Trustee Cecilia Robbins said her…
Wednesday was the last day of this week's prescribed burn east of Bayfield in Saul's Creek, according to a press release from the U.S. Forest Service. Staff burned about 775…
du1-i-syn Since 2008, the town has worked on implementing economic development projects listed in their Economic Development Strategic Plan. On Nov. 7, 2012, the Town hosted a community meeting to…
Jesse Lasater, who raises sheep near Bayfield with his wife, Veronica, said he knew a fellow Farm Bureau member who couldn’t get a traditional loan. The usual problem for farmers…
Jackson Artichoker, right, a fourth-grade student at Bayfield Elementary, won the $1,000 Colorado scholarship from Bonnie Plants for the company's national cabbage program. He received the scholarship check March 21…
At the March 18 board meeting, his contract wasn’t in question, but the $5,000 was. Board members spent 90 minutes in closed session to discuss administrative contracts. Back in open…
Sheriff’s deputies did a welfare check on March 12 in the 39,000 block of U.S. Highway 160 when friends said they had not heard from him in several days, the…
This set of triplets was born at John and Diana McGeeney's place southwest of Bayfield on March 16. Odds for triplets calves are 1 in 700,000. The calves, two heifers…
Candidates are incumbents Tom Atencio, Cecilia Robbins, Dixie Melton, and Lawrence Bartley, plus former trustee and mayor Ena Millich, Audrey Atencio, and Edward Box III. Mayor Stella Cox also is…
“It’s free, at least mostly,” Bayfield Marshal Joe McIntyre said last week. He gave a presentation to the town board on March 18. The equipment, also including personal protection gear,…
Top wildfire strategist endorses contracting for firefighting force
A property tax exemption may be available for tax year 2014 for qualifying senior citizens, the surviving spouses of seniors who previously qualified and for disabled veterans. For people who…
But no one can prove the C-130 tanker, or any other aircraft, actually help fight wildfires, the plane’s owners say. “One thing we do see is a lot of air…
Local law-enforcement agencies are still hands-off with the new technology
Sunrise Yoga, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County, 2750 Main Ave., $5, 259-0385. “Memoirs” writing group meeting, 1:15 p.m., Durango-La Plata Senior Center,…
Wednesday 1:45 p.m. An intoxicated man was passed out inside the Durango Transit Center, 250 West Eighth Street. 10:08 p.m. Someone received a verbal warning for skateboarding on Main Avenue,…
When a massive rockslide closed Red Mountain Pass in mid-January, it triggered a massive – and dangerous – mitigation project. By the end of the monthlong Herculean task, one lane…
Durango Bird Club will meet at 7 p.m. Friday at the Department of Wildlife Museum at the Durango Fish Hatchery, 151 E. 15th St. Riley Morris will present a “Bad…
du1-i-syn Until last week, FLC leaders thought they were sitting pretty as the state’s second-highest priority college construction project, as designated by the Legislature’s Capital Development Committee. The college has…
