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Durango Learning Lab opens registration

Durango Learning Lab is an educational, communitywide program with a commitment to universal access regardless of family income. Session 2 will begin Nov. 9 and registration is now open. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Education

Summit Church hosts Operation Christmas Child virtually

Summit Church will host its annual Operation Christmas Child online this year. Community members are invited to build a Christmas shoebox online to donate to a child in need. Sel...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Comfort Keepers offers free wall calendars

Comfort Keepers would like to share the Comfort Keepers 2021 Wall Calendar with the community as a way to keep elevating the human spirit. The goal of the calendar is to promote j...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Durango Botanical Society changes name to Durango Botanic Gardens

Durango Botanical Society, established in 2010 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is changing its name to Durango Botanic Gardens. The society has devoted its first decade to building publ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

August births

These children were born at Centura Health-Mercy Regional Medical Center in August: Chelsea and Simon Hampton, Bloomfield, Ryker Douglas, 5 pounds 1 ounce, 3:54 a.m. Aug. 1. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Durango Parks and Recreation Department earns national accreditation

Durango Parks and Recreation Department has earned reaccreditation through the Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies and the National Recreation and Park Association. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Four Corners Expos hosts November coat drive

Four Corners Expos hosts is hosting a coat drive in November to benefit La Plata County and Montezuma County residents in need. The coat drive will accept coats, hoodies, gloves a...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society to host talk about Florida Mesa site

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will host a virtual meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday via Zoom. After a brief business meeting, Rand Greubel will present a talk called “Early Pueb...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

City of Durango announces Veterans Day schedule

The city of Durangoâ€™s schedule for Veterans Day: City administrative offices will be closed. This includes City Hall, River City Hall, Police Station and Substation, Transit ...

DATE: Nov 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

U.S. Forest Service hiring for temporary jobs

The U.S. Forest Service is hiring for temporary or seasonal jobs across the nation. Positions are in fire, trails, timber, administration, recreation, fisheries and archaeology. T...

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Mercy Regional Medical Center awarded grant for suicide prevention

Mercy Regional Medical Center has received a $100,000 grant from the Cardinal Health Foundation and will join the foundation’s Zero Suicide Collaborative. The project will move Me...

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Rotary Club of Durango Daybreak to deliver wood to seniors in need

Rotary Club of Durango Daybreak will deliver wood to seniors in need Saturday. Each summer for the past 16 years, Daybreak members have gathered, split and stacked wood for fall d...

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News