As another winter draws to a close, there has been plenty of talk about the Chapman ski hill improvements this past year. While hill staff did make the most of a lean winter and keep the new lifts turn...

Black bears were here before any of us were. At first, I had problems with them getting into our kitchen garbage. Then, I specified from our trash hauler that I wanted a bear proof can. Since then, no...

Hail the Republican language police Who recently caused many words to cease They banned climate science in utter defiance Of evidence-based logic – itself a contrivance. They banned COVID and injustic...

The Trump administration has stated that the government is spending too much. This is false! The real problem is the IRS has been severely defunded and short staffed. According to the nonpartisan Yal...

Reuben’s suggested hammer head: Cost of fire resistance La Plata County commissioners warn that proposed statewide building and landscape regulations designed to protect wildfire-prone communiti...

Would that I could as I know I should But such is the quandary of life in the laundry or life as a resident or even the president Leslie Ray Wallace Bayfield

I’ve recently been rereading “Caesar and Christ,” historian Will Durant’s 1944 classic which traces the history of Rome and Christianity from their beginnings into the 4th century. The similarities of...

Corporations operate for one purpose only – profit for investors. Any CEO daring to risk profit to protect a mere river, or employees, would be immediately fired. We see the negative social impact of...

Scott Perez hit the nail on the head in his column, “Both parties have failed ‘We the People,’” (Herald, Mar. 5). The current state of our political affairs is an embarrassment, and the cloak of shame...