A health worker, right, cleans a man’s arm before injecting him with an Ebola vaccine in Conakry, Guinea. An experimental vaccine tested on thousands of people in Guinea exposed to…
My friend and I had decided to spend the hot North Carolina summer day together, letting our children run around a place where college-aged girls would lovingly coo at them…
A: Don’t get angry, but when I read this question I laughed out loud. Not because you are upset, but because there is just something hysterical (and familiar) about the…
75 years ago: “Fort Lewis College will celebrate its 25th annual Visitor’s Day Aug. 1. It will also be the fifth annual 4-H Club Field Day.” The day would include…
Yet I’m relieved I never had to read it to my daughter. My husband and I moved into a building that didn’t allow dogs when I was three months pregnant.…
75 years ago: “Workmen from Durango Paint Co. this week began work painting the cabin recently built by C.F. Corzelius place at Granite Peaks on the Pine.” 50 years ago:…
People with prediabetes are invited to attend a free class by Sheena Carswell and Marge Morris from 9 to 11 a.m. Aug. 7 in Suite 140 of the medical office…
Michael Gendy of King, N.C., continues to exercise after participating in a Wake Forest School of Medicine study that found aerobic activity may lower a risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s.…
Local legend has it that outlaw Billy the Kid would take a dip in the Blue Hole before heading into Santa Rosa. Weary railroad workers and passengers followed at the…
75 years ago: “A shortage of stenographers and typists now exists in several government offices and the civil service commission has notified Bob Arnold, local civil service examiner, that examinations…
This picture appeared in the Sept. 7, 1988, Herald. The cutline read: “Construction on Wolf Creek Pass has caused traffic delays of an average of 15 minutes on the mountain…
This recipe for veggie burritos by Melissa d’Arabian uses high heat to bring out the natural sweetness of the vegetables.Matthew Mead/Associated Press If 5 p.m. on a weeknight has sneaked…
75 years go: “The smoke haze which lay on the mountains has not been properly accounted for, though two forest fires in this locality may have contributed.” One fire was…
75 years ago: “Durango’s one-day goodwill tour around the ‘loop’ met warm reception at nearly every town visited on the 253-mile route. The motor caravan consisted of 25 cars and…
Industry growth could depend on converting trash into power
“This is Kelly,” the intern answers in a soothing voice. In her three days on the job, she’s learned that she’ll be listening to people’s problems every time she answers…
The caption on this July 31, 1988, photo read, “Neither this rider nor his bronc look like they were enjoying the party at Fiesta Days rodeo.”Durango Herald file photo 75…
75 years ago: “More than 70 Durango people are signed up and ready to go on a one day good will tour around the ‘circle route.’” 50 years ago: “Everyone’s…
For liberals, charm fades; his policy stances concern conservatives
Join Congregation Har Shalom, 2537 County Road 203, and Eli Herb for his third class of the summer series called “Difficult Questions.” Herb is a fifth-year rabbinical student and friend…
Kassidy Suarez, 22, who identifies as a transgender female, lives in an apartment she shares with her mother in Miami. After coming out at 15, first as a gay young…
Customers arrive at Marcy’s Diner in Portand, Maine. The owner of the diner is defending comments she made on her Facebook page about yelling at a 2-year-old child for crying,…
A new study finds that, at least in cancer, there’s a very real medical reason to consider giving less treatment at the end of life: Chemotherapy doesn’t improve dying patients’…
One rainy morning, my husband, baby daughter and I went out for breakfast. We had stayed overnight in Portland, a place close to our hearts where my husband spent a…
A: Age 2 can be an infuriating mystery to many parents. You are delivered out of the sweetness of the baby days into the fraught ones of toddlerhood, only to…
