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Conversational Spanish classes available at Durango Adult Education Center

The Durango Adult Education Center will offer two beginning conversational Spanish classes and one mid-level conversational Spanish class starting Feb. 6. The classes aim to build...

Southwest Colorado Community College offers application assistance for nursing programs

Free application assistance for students interested in Southwest Colorado Community College’s nursing programs will be offered from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 1, Feb. 15 and Mar. 1 at the Dura...

Notary services offered at Pine River Library

The Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive in Bayfield, is now offering notary services from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, contact brooke...

New Mexico pecan farmers see record-high prices for crop

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico pecan farmers and backyard growers are receiving record-high prices for the crop. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (https://goo.gl/IIA4gM) a ne...

Mountain Middle School opens enrollment lottery

Students can enter Mountain Middle School’s fourth- through eighth-grade enrollment lottery for the 2017-18 school year until Feb. 28. The lottery to determine accepted applica...

AHS students to hold mock trial Jan. 26 at courthouse

Ally Johnson’s 10th-grade humanities classes at Animas High School will hold a mock trial from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at the La Plata County Courthouse, 1060 East Second Ave. ...

Animas High School offers ‘Shadow Days’ for students interested in attending

Animas High School “Shadow Days” will begin Thursday, Jan. 26, and run weekly through the semester. Prospective students for the 2017-18 school year are encouraged to attend. ...

Schramm Foundation supports social work program in the Four Corners

The Schramm Foundation has awarded the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work Four Corners Program, based in Durango, $23,000 for scholarship and technology support. ...

Know Your Dough to offer program at Durango Montessori

Know Your Dough, a local nonprofit that provides financial wellness programs for youths and young adults, will host a program Feb. 6 for third- through sixth-graders at Durango Montessori in...

AHS to hold parent talk on standardized testing, college admission

The discussion “Osprey Parent Talk: Standardized Testing and College Admissions” will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, at Animas High School, 20091 U.S. Highway 160. ...

Animas High School to host sex education curriculum for ninth-graders

Ninth-graders at Animas High School will participate in the “All Together Now” sex education curriculum with educators from the Responsible Sex Education Institute from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. We...

Early Childhood Council to hold three-day seminar in March

The Early Childhood Council of La Plata County will hold the “Touchpoints Individual Level Training” seminar from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 3, 10 and 17 at the Durango Tech Center in the ear...