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Photo: Tricks for Tuesday
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Photo: Tricks for Tuesday

August 8, 2023

Mike Hernandez, of Durango, makes a transfer jump on Tuesday in the Durango Skate Park. Hernandez has been riding BMX for 30 years. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)Jerry McBride

Photos: Arts and Crafts
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Photos: Arts and Crafts

August 5, 2023

Emma Regan, 3, tries out upcycled table and chairs painted by local artist Lisa Morales, of Diddle Lee Doodle Lee Decor, on Saturday during the Buckley Park Arts & Crafts…

Photos: Music in the valley
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Photos: Music in the valley

July 29, 2023

The Foggy Memory Boys, from Taos, N.M., is the first of four bands playing the Pine River Festival on Saturday at Eagle Park in Bayfield. This is the fourth year…

Photos: A fetching good time
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Photos: A fetching good time

July 28, 2023

Arvid shows his fetching skills as he collects not one but two sticks Friday from the Animas River as his owner, Christian Hatfield of Mancos, gives the 8-month-old a workout.…

Photos: Rain, finally
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Photos: Rain, finally

July 27, 2023

Mike Frost keeps his dog Smokey entertained after taking shelter from the rain Thursday in Santa Rita Park. It was a quick storm, but the first soaking the city of…

Photos: Little steamer that could
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Photos: Little steamer that could

July 25, 2023

Adam Swanson, left, works on his 0-4-0 switcher steam engine with the help of Bill Severns, center, and Andy Saez on Tuesday at Saez’s railroad yard north of Durango. Saez…

Photos: Support for times in need
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Photos: Support for times in need

July 22, 2023

Sgt. Adrian O’Haver, with the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office, helps Riley Mallett, 11, try on a patrol vest and hold a shield on Saturday during First Responders Appreciation Day,…

Photo: Chillin’ Time
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Photo: Chillin’ Time

July 20, 2023

Charley Willoughby sits in the shade of a cottonwood tree as his wife, Darla Willoughby, fishes from a float tube on Thursday at Pastorius Reservoir. The two were hoping to…

Photos: Reading the green
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Photos: Reading the green

July 18, 2023

Golfers play on dry patchy grass Tuesday at Hillcrest Golf Club. The course and other large water users cut their water use after a 30-inch raw water line was damaged…

Photos: Cooling Off
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Photos: Cooling Off

July 15, 2023

Sue Smith and others go for a slow float down the Animas River on Saturday north of the 32nd Street put-in. Temperatures reached in the high 90s on Saturday, making…

Photo: Sure sign of summer
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Photo: Sure sign of summer

July 13, 2023

Lucy Rogers, 9, practices her gymnastics while selling lemonade with her sisters, Stella, 7, left, Clara, 9, center, and Grace, 4, on Thursday in east Durango. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)cca

Photo: Gateway to the future
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Photo: Gateway to the future

July 11, 2023

Fairgrounds General Manager Emily Spencer cuts a ribbon with Jim Turner behind her as about 25 celebrate 100 feet of new gates that were installed around Ward Lee Field at…

Search for missing runner Ian O’Brien
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Search for missing runner Ian O’Brien

July 11, 2023

A flyer for missing runner Ian OBrien on a rock Thursday northeast of Mancos in the La Plata Mountains. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)cca

Photo: Staying cool
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Photo: Staying cool

July 7, 2023

Romelle Maloney set up her summer yard display featuring bunnies by the pool on Friday in front of her Riverview Elementary School neighborhood home. Maloney has been changing the rabbits…

Photos: Tribal broadband speeding ahead
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Photos: Tribal broadband speeding ahead

July 6, 2023

Gideon Alcon, with HDD Cactus, operates a horizontal directional drilling machine on Thursday, drilling under U.S. Highway 160 at Elmore’s Corner so that fiber optic cable can be connected to…

Photo: All you can eat
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Photo: All you can eat

July 1, 2023

Amanda Voyt starts to work on her apple pie on Saturday during the Oscar’s Cafe pie eating contest at the La Plata County Fairgrounds that is part of the city’s…

Photo: Acts of kindness
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Photo: Acts of kindness

June 29, 2023

Members of the First United Methodist Church of Longview, Texas, from left, Jenna Crum, 17, Jordan Crum, 17, Olaedo Ibeawuchi, 14, and Christy Triece fill two of the new 48…