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Tailwind Nutrition in Bayfield awarded $250,000 grant

Business says it will use money to hire more employees

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

CBS, Dish end blackout for customers after reaching fee deal

Dish Network and CBS agreed to a new multi-year contract, ending a blackout that would have left millions of satellite-TV subscribers without the nation’s most-watched network and its popula...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Thrive recognizes living wage employers

La Plata County Thrive! Living Wage Coalition recognized its new certified living wage employers Nov. 20: Alpine Bank, Durango Car Care, Durango Cyclery, Marleyâ€™s Angels Cleaning Service a...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

La Plata Electric Association promotes employee to working foreman

La Plata Electric Association recently promoted journeyman lineman Archie Ribera, a 10-year employee at LPEA, to working foreman. A working foreman is one of four workers that for...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Bueno Foods now sold at Walmart

Bueno Foods, a family-owned food producer in New Mexico, announced it expanded distribution to Walmart locations in Texas, Colorado, California and Arizona. For more information, ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Big Brothers, Sisters receive grant

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado recently received a $1,000 grant from Durango Area Association of Realtors. Funds will go to one-to-one mentoring for more than 200 ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Mortgage rates level off

Experts disagree on whether rates will remain stable

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

When your kid tries to say ‘Alexa’ before ‘Mama’

In Yana Welinder’s house, her son will say “Papa!’ to either her or her husband. “Mama” isn’t in his vocabulary yet. But her son, who just turned 1, does have a name for another prominent fi...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Some shoppers find lower-key Black Friday

Some people unable to find deals

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Bennet asks FCC for details about rural broadband work

CenturyLink granted millions to improve internet but has not accounted for work

DATE: Nov 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Out of the basement and into a home

Millennials have become nation’s largest group of homeowners

DATE: Nov 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Durango JC Penney converts to clearance center

Store in mall one of six piloting new concept

DATE: Nov 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business