Thank you to the anonymous parent who donated sandwiches to Durango High School this week. It was a fantastic and appreciated treat. Noah Gorz Durango
There is a reindeer out near Ignacio, and it is owned by the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. It is used for the Christmas train. This poor animal is…
In August, my wife and I visited Colorado. It had been 51 years since I was stationed in Colorado Springs in the U.S. Air Force. Our last four days were…
I am writing regarding the article about multiple sclerosis and stem cell treatments (“Immune system reboot,” Sept. 15). This is to inform folks suffering from MS that there is another…
cca The recent death of a bowhunter in Dolores County is a travesty and was completely avoidable. One of the basic tenets of gun ownership and hunter education is “know…
It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote, high mountain valley on Colorado’s Western Slope. The valley is…
Over the past decades, natural disasters have increased in number and severity due to climate change. We need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the burning of…
The city of Durango should buy the great hole on East Second Avenue across the street from Gazpacho Restaurant and build the long talked about parking garage. Four or five…
Thank you so much for Nicholas Johnson’s Sept 17, reporting (Herald, “Where are the hotels?”) on the ugly, unsightly, enormous hole in the ground across the street from Gazpacho’s restaurant.…
I would like to commend everyone involved for their efforts in trying to save the elder cottonwood that, until this morning, stood regally along 32nd Street. As Julia Butterfly Hill…
I am a big fan of trees; they are beautiful, they are home to all kinds of animals, their biological processes are mind blowing and they take in carbon dioxide…
In keeping to the theme of my previous thoughts about simple solutions, I began reflecting on simple pleasures. Back on the road, after our stay at the family cabin in…
Laurie Roberts Counseling alone cannot address the current crisis in children’s mental health. I’ve provided psychotherapy to children and adolescents for 33 years. It’s not possible to talk a child…
In her letter comparing the Texas abortion bill to masks and vaccines (Sept. 8, “My body, my choice everywhere”), Rebecca York appears to be willfully ignorant. Whether or not she…
I know many of you have visited Tico Time. But before you decide to go again, I ask you to consider the effect it has on the residents of the…
When “Prairie Home Companion” broadcast from Fort Lewis College in 1998, the show included “The Lives of the Cowboys.” In the skit, cowboys Dusty and Lefty arrive in Durango and…
I’ve followed the upset over the removal of some beautiful, old trees to make way for the new underpass at 32nd Street. It’s a shame to remove those trees. But…
Bush rightly calls terrorists ‘children of the same foul spirit’
Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere else. Nationally, big fires were treated as another freak of…
The Religion section of last weekend’s Durango Herald ran an article, rather uncritically, on the efforts of a Christian minister of mixed Ojibwa-Yaqui heritage, aiming to produce a new English…
Thank you for creating a path connecting 32nd Street to Oxbow. The intended benefits are good, encouraging biking as transportation and inviting engagement with the riparian corridor. I also witness…
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacked our country, destroying the Trade Towers and damaging the Pentagon. The result was our country declaring a war on terror and bombing and invading…
Constitution Week is the commemoration of America’s most important document. It is celebrated annually during the week of Sept. 17 to 23 to commemorate Sept. 27, 1787, the date on…
Twenty years ago, life changed for Americans, likely never to return. The immediate severity of the defensive responses to the airborne attacks that collapsed the World Trade Center towers and…
Dear Herald readers, In the coming weeks, the space traditionally devoted to the newspaper’s editorial will include commentary by three Durangoans who will bring a wide breadth of interests and…
While I could share my own horror of watching the attacks on the World Trade Center as they happened, this is about a friend of mine, Bill, one of New…
In the heady days of spring, when the United States was vaccinating 3 million people a day, President Joe Biden predicted a “summer of joy.” But then the vaccination campaign…
Porter-Nortondu1-i-syn The crisis of people who have no safe place to sleep each night is not a city of Durango or La Plata County problem alone. It affects all of…
