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City’s new parking meters will take credit cards or coins
New toll takers getting ready for August debut
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Sharing fruit harvest from the yard
In partnership with Jim Dyer and Healthy Community Food Systems and Bear Smart Durango, the Colorado State University Extension Office has established a Fruit Gleaning Program: a website to match…
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Developer pleads guilty to tax evasion
Plea agreement avoids prosecution for suspected real estate frauds
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Chopper rescue diverted in the end
Helicopter redirected to Silverton after false alarm involving drunken man
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Fort Lewis graduate crowned Miss U.S. International, heads to Tokyo
Andrea Neu, 22, beat 39 other beauty pageant contestants to be named the 2013 Miss U.S. International winner Sunday night in Kissimmee, Fla. Miss International is one of the four…
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Nomadic blacksmith
Joe “The Blacksmith” Vachon hammers a knife out of recycled steel. Vachon learned to work with steel in art school, and he became a blacksmith in a teepee on a…
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Crew works to contain 20-acre Cat Fire in Archuleta County
No structures were threatened by the Cat Fire on Sunday evening, said Pam Wilson, fire information officer with the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch, in a news release issued Sunday evening.…
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Budget woes loom over Upper Pine
Outside, inside forces prompt district to seek mill-levy increase
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Email sent with school ‘top 10’ list
On March 27, Fuschetto sent an email entitled, “MYRA Mains School!!!” to the Colorado Department of Education’s Kristin Lortie and the Building Excellent Schools Today grant program’s Ted Hughes, among…
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Finding of bodies upsets Ignacio school construction
26 uncovered – some century-old remains of Native Americans
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Cowboy up and away
Zach Thompson and his friends visited the swingset at Fassbinder Park on an overcast Saturday afternoon. A chance of thunderstorms remains in the forecast through Monday with high temperatures expected…
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‘Music’ to our ears
27th annual classical music festival fills souls – and local businesses’ pocketbooks
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Weather limits fire on West Fork Complex
“There was not much fire activity,” said Mark De Gregorio with the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team. “The weather has been cloudy, and we had some scattered showers on the…
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Feds advance ‘solar energy zones’ in San Luis Valley
BLM: 304K acres off limits to mining claims
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Wear wolf?
Wyatt Bozone, 11, son of Phil and Marlen Bozone of Fort Worth, Texas, tries on a wolf pelt Friday at the wildlife museum at the Durango Fish Hatchery. The museum,…
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The pursuit of happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty…
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Colorado licenses get a gold star
Tamper-proof ID assures license holder vetted, meets federal approval
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With avatar, Colo. woman whole again
Virtual-world therapy ends physical limitations for disabled users