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Rockfest celebrates music community

Music scenes need someone to do the heavy lifting. That “someone” are first fans and musicians, second venue owners and promoters, a collaborative group handling the team effort to make said...

DATE: Sep 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Autumn calls: Keeping up the fight for public lands

With the end of summer in sight and the beginning of fall in the crosshairs, hunters and many others are looking forward to mountainsides of aspens bathed in golden light and the echoes of b...

DATE: Sep 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

New job requires people skills

DEAR ABBY: I’m a man in my early 30s who has made a career switch. My new field requires me to be more social because I will be meeting with colleagues, some of them older than I am, and att...

DATE: Sep 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Give your gut a fresh start in just one week

Bloating, cravings, fatigue, even mood swings. Believe it or not, many of these struggles can be traced back to one surprising source, your gut. The exciting news is that you can give your g...

DATE: Sep 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

On the ubiquitous rhetoric of, and short step between, hatred and murder

I am writing this on Sept. 11, 2025. Twenty-four years ago today, this country was attacked by radicalized terrorists. For a while, as we worked through the recovery, shock and grief, we sto...

DATE: Sep 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

To keep ‘thousand points of light’ shining, the nonprofit sector should consolidate

The leaders of nonprofit organizations should consider merging with their peers. The cascade of federal money supporting the nonprofit sector is decreasing and it appears unlikely to increas...

DATE: Sep 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Husband protests wife’s financial planning

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married for 19 years to my second husband, “Jack.” Our children are grown. When we met, I was a business owner, and he was retired. He has had numerous medical issues an...

DATE: Sep 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

A budgetary crisis: What happened during the Special Session

This week was a difficult week for Colorado – and for our country. The ache of gun violence is persistent nationally, and another school has been impacted by this inexplicable harm. Amid the...

DATE: Sep 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Win $50 for supporting North Main businesses

The Durango Business Improvement District works for Downtown and North Main District businesses. BID has a North Main promotion coming up next week called NoMAD. NoMAD stands for North Main ...

DATE: Sep 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

Grant will help connect people with services

If you are one of the cool kids driving around with one of the fun historic Colorado license plates, I want to express my sincere gratitude. Those historic plates – the plain black, blue and...

DATE: Sep 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Sit spot in the ponderosa

It was mid-day at 8,500 feet amid the Ponderosa and Oak scrub of Top of the Pines Preserve outside Ridgway. The grasses, dried and aromatic, reminded me of chaparral. Luckily, I had been sit...

DATE: Sep 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Do simple things well, to mow or not, and other retirement musings

To mow or not to mow. That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to cultivate green, weed free space or to xeriscape. Here in dry Southwest Colorado, I have felt some guilt for still having a...

DATE: Sep 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion