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Agent offers Medicare coaching

Janice Moore, a local independent agent, offers free Medicare coaching to residents. Moore is a volunteer coach and adviser with information about affordable rates, when companie...

DATE: Oct 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Ignacio students Pearson, Roderick achieve American Degree

Two students from Ignacio High School achieved the American Degree, an achievement less than 1% of most students achieve before the end of their Future Farmers of America careers. ...

DATE: Oct 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Center of Southwest Studies to host virtual lecture

Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will host a free lecture “The Life and Legacy of Buffalo Bill” at 4 p.m. Wednesday via Zoom. Historian and author Steve Friesen ...

DATE: Oct 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Pine River Library adjusts open hours

Pine River Library has changed its hours to accommodate the needs of students in the Bayfield School District. Monday will now be the only virtual learning day for all Bayfield s...

DATE: Oct 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

San Juan Basin Public Health announces flu clinics in Archuleta and La Plata counties

San Juan Basin Public Health will host several flu clinics in October in Archuleta and La Plata counties. SJBPH is urging anyone older than 6 months to get a flu shot. According t...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Florida Mesa Grange to host candidate forum

Florida Mesa Grange will sponsor a Meet the Candidate Forum at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Florida Grange Hall, 656 Highway 172. Local candidates running for La Plata County commissione...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Rotary Park Gazebo to close for improvements

The gazebo at Rotary Park, 15th Street and East Second Avenue, will be closed for repairs beginning Monday. Gazebo improvements will include new lighting and paint and wood repai...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

San Juan Regional resumes outpatient laboratory services at Medical Office Building

San Juan Regional Medical Center will resume outpatient laboratory services from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday at the Medical Office Building, 407 S. Schwartz, Farmington, beginning M...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Bureau of Reclamation commissioner to visit Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project

Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman will conduct an in-person inspection of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project’s Cutter Lateral Water Treatment Plant at 10:15 a.m. Monday at...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Centura Health-Mercy welcomes primary care physician Dr. Micah Helton

Centura Health-Mercy Regional Medical Center welcomes primary care physician Micah Helton, M.D., to Mercy Family Medicine-Horse Gulch and Mercy Internal Medicine, 810 E. Third St., Suite 201...

DATE: Oct 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Studio E to offer nia, yoga, healing arts classes

Studio E is now open and offering classes to the community at 225 E. Eighth Ave. The studio will offer nia, yoga, barefoot dancing and healing arts classes in its new movement sp...

DATE: Oct 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

Durango Area Association of Realtors accepts grants applications

Durango Area Association of Realtors is now accepting grant funding requests from local nonprofit organizations in need. Qualifying organizations must be in La Plata and San Juan ...

DATE: Oct 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business