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Ignacio moves up age date for this fall's kindergarten students Youngest kids tend to struggle, teachers say

The youngest kids in kindergarten are more likely to struggle than their older classmates, and those struggles can continue through high school. That was the message from kinderg...

Home and Ranch show featured a little bit of everything

Southwest Ag was among the exhibitors at last weekend's Home and Ranch Show at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. Shown here in a sea of orange, SWAG patriarch Dennis Hillyer answers questions...

School board approves more money for student data system

Bayfield and Durango school officials have been working for more than a year on a student data tracking system called School Vault to fill a need not being addressed by commercially availabl...

Cheryl Ann Ireland

Cheryl Ann Ireland, 67, died Friday, April 25, 2014, at home in Bayfield. A graveside service was held at 4 p.m. Monday, April 28, 2014 at Pine River Cemetery. Pastor Randy Ash of First Bapt...

Donald Duane Sauer

Donald Duane Sauer, 56, died Sunday, April 27, 2014 at home in Durango. A graveside service was held at the Allison-Tiffany Cemetery on Thursday, May 1. Don was born Oct. 5, 1957 ...

Pine River Valley in Brief

SATURDAY, MAY 3 9Health Fair, 7 to 11:30 a.m., Bayfield Elementary School Yard sale extravaganza, 8:30 to 2 p.m. IHS parking lot (old elementary school) St. ...

FLC baseball helps out youth team

Photo by Debbie Wilhelm Six players from Fort Lewis Skyhawk baseball came to practice this week with the Bayfield Cobras, a 9-10 team in the Pine River Youth Baseball league. The ...

Firewood permits on sale

As backcountry roads have begun to dry out and open for the summer season, permits to cut firewood on National Forest or BLM lands in southwestern Colorado (2014 tags are lavender in color) ...

Upper Pine board member appreciates support

On Tuesday, May 6, there is an important election taking place in Upper Pine River Fire Protection District. It is an election for two seats on the board of directors for the fire district. ...

Upper Pine to hold contested election

5 candidates running for 2 seats on Tuesday

Tax assessors are visiting properties

It's May, the snow is past, change is in the air and the assessor's office is mailing "intervening year" Notices of Value, to those who have changed their properties.  By change ...

Kindergarteners get down on the farm

Photos by Melanie Brubaker Mazur Bayfield Elementary kindergarten students visited Semler Farm on Tuesday, learning about newborn calves, lambs, chickens and piglets. C...