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‘Temporary art’ a winner
His Team Breckenridge won a gold medal at the Colorado championship Loveland Snow Sculpture in the Dark competition in mid-February with a sculpture of splitting heads. And last week in…
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Avalanche victims experienced in endeavors
Ski patroller and snowmobiler were skilled in backcountry travel
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Local/Region Briefs
A Euchre tournament will be held at 1 p.m. March 16 at the Lost Dog Bar & Lounge, 1150 Main Ave. For more information, call Joe Zuber at 259-1375. Women’s…
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Dayplanner Saturday
“Embrace Excel with Blake,” 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. Southwest Colorado Genealogical Society meeting, 10:30 a.m., La Plata County Historical Society’s Animas Museum. Puppy Party…
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Smelter Rapid’s rebirth near
Whitewater Park’s March 31 deadline closing in, but project officials hopeful
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Here’s a woman your daughter can look up to
Kathy Thomas speaks at awards ceremony for local women
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Pueblo Feast Day at FLC
Benito Concha of Taos Pueblo demonstrates an Eagle Dance, representing an eagle hunting for prey, on Friday during Fort Lewis College’s Pueblo Feast Day. Robert Mirabal – a two-time Grammy-award…
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The Blotter
Friday 12:58 a.m. An intoxicated male was yelling and trying to fight customers at Joel’s Bar, 119 West Eighth Street. Thursday 7:17 p.m. A driver of a transit bus crashed…
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Authorities end search for avalanche victim
‘Too dangerous to go up there for a recovery’
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Bayfield High School evacuation was premature, fire chief says
Small wall fire prompts gossip and reaction
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Dayplanner Friday
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. The Fort Lewis College Native American Center will present the…
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Tipton talks Hermosa Creek
He expects effort to protect watershed to move quickly in the House
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‘Spark the Change’
Mountain Middle School eighth-grader Will Swenson, son of Harriet and Steve Swenson, gives a TEDx talk Thursday afternoon at Animas City Theatre. Will’s talk, along with 16 other Mountain Middle…
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Governor pushes state water plan
State Sen. Roberts is skeptical of John Hickenlooper’s goals
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The Blotter
Thursday 1:15 a.m. A resident of Hillcrest Apartments, 1000 Goeglein Gulch Road, reported a noise complaint after hearing pounding and hammering in a nearby unit. Wednesday 8:07 p.m. Someone reported…
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Local Briefs
The Colorado Department of Transportation is in the process of upgrading signal cabinets on U.S. Highway 160 (Main Street), U.S. Highway 491 (Broadway) and Colorado Highway 145 in Cortez. The…
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Wolf Creek ski patroller killed in avalanche
Man was conducting research outside boundaries
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Lost skier says he was not involved in previous incident
He also said he had never made the trip before, and he wasn’t the skier who was lost in a similar incident a decade earlier. Maginnis, 41, of Cincinnati, was…
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Dayplanner Thursday
Durango High Noon Rotary meeting, noon, DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, www.durangohighnoonrotary.com. Kiwanis Club of Durango meeting, noon, Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave. Disabled American Veterans the…
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The Blotter
Wednesday 12:37 a.m. An intoxicated man was arrested at the Animas City Theater for threatening to start a fight, 128 East College Drive. Tuesday 10:22 a.m. A suspicious woman was…
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Catching rays today; tomorrow’s the skis
“This is fabulous,” said Ken Smith of Wednesday afternoon’s warm, sunny weather. Smith and a couple of friends were at the Mason Center enjoying the late-winter sun. Today’s high is…