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Big change ahead for Community Connections

We all evolve and grow. This is true both for people and organizations. The evolution of an organization is complicated. By their very nature, organizations tend toward inertia. Major change...

DATE: Nov 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

War letters project marks anniversary

DEAR READERS: Twenty-five years ago Saturday, I told you about a new, nationwide effort to honor and remember our nation’s troops, veterans and families by seeking out and preserving their w...

DATE: Nov 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Marriage to abuser has become prison

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married to my husband for almost 43 years. We haven’t had sex in more than 10 years. He is a nasty drunk, which has grown worse. He is emotionally abusive and calls me l...

DATE: Nov 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Consider nutrition security when donating to a food drive

Somewhere out there, a handbook has been passed down from generation to generation advising that parents instruct their kids to clean their plate. The carrot on the stick was that you got to...

DATE: Nov 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Soul and funk with The Quarks

It’s arguably some of the hippest music around. Music from artists like Grant Green or Herbie Hancock, along with other musicians that made up the Bluenote Records roster of the mid to late1...

DATE: Nov 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Farewell to wildly different radicals

The West lost two larger-than-life conservationists this year, and while I considered both friends, they couldn’t have been more different. Yet both were radical in their own ways. One was r...

DATE: Nov 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Harnessing power of protein for diabetes prevention

November is National Diabetes Month. Do you have a family history of diabetes? Do you have parent, grandparents, uncles, aunts with insulin resistance, prediabetes or diabetes? If so, today’...

DATE: Nov 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Grandparents prepare gift for thankless grandkids

DEAR ABBY: For years, we have given generous gifts to our six out-of-town grandchildren and received almost no thanks or acknowledgment. It hurts my feelings because I devote a lot of though...

DATE: Nov 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

‘Words matter, represent what we stand for’

Offensive place names stain public lands across the nation. In Colorado, we’re changing that narrative. Legislation was recently introduced in Congress to change Mount Evans Wilderness to Mo...

DATE: Nov 5, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Access, advocacy, and a voice at the table – why being a Chamber member is beneficial

In October, I attended the Association of Colorado Chambers of Commerce annual conference in Glenwood. Coming away from this experience made me reflect on what the Durango Chamber of Commerc...

DATE: Nov 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: From the Chamber

White river: Third time was the best

If you are not a regular reader of my columns, the title of this one is a tipoff that I’ve been known to repeat trips and then write about them as if this is all brand-new. Before I tell you...

DATE: Nov 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Flies & Lies

What’s up with the Lamppost Trail waterfall feature?

Dear Action Line: Just wondering if the waterfall that runs down the hill behind Animas High School and enters the drainage creek along Lamppost Trail is a planned water feature or an un...

DATE: Nov 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line