Columnists - The Durango Herald

Check out the Slackers at Ska Brewing

A sought-after venue for a ska band to play a show is Durango’s own Ska Brewery. It’s a glorious ask to be invited to perform at a brewery named after the style of music your band plays; it...

DATE: May 18, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Honoring our top 4-H graduates

The month of May means we get to celebrate our graduating high school seniors and award the La Plata County 4-H Higher Education Scholarships. These scholarships are given out to our outstan...

DATE: May 17, 2023 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

New plants for the season

We all have our favorite things, right? Now that I just recently turned 51 (please send belated birthday presents to the CSU Extension office at the Fairgrounds), I find myself being drawn t...

DATE: May 17, 2023 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Soil moisture may stay cold

I had the pleasure of being born and raised here in Durango – back when the family could fulfill all its shopping needs in the Town Plaza (Safeway, Montgomery Ward and TG&Y), Main Avenue got...

DATE: May 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Why Action Line refuses to answer luxury housing inquiry

Dear Action Line: Alert! An eyesore has developed on our San Juan Skyway. It appears to be swelling, oozing wealth and privilege, obscuring mountain views along U.S. Highway 550. I’m con...

DATE: May 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Why dark skies are dark

Greetings stargazers. We are fortunate to live in one of the darker corners of the continental United States. Most of you could correctly explain this darkness is because of the absence of a...

DATE: May 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Which volunteer opportunity is right for you?

The first time I worked with conservation volunteers, I led a group of high school students on a long-term volunteer trail project. As my students learned to use tools, cut tread and spend a...

DATE: May 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Cultivating Leaders in La Plata County

While the New Oxford Dictionary of English defines leadership as the “action of leading a group of people or an organization,” it is so much more, and I think anyone can be a leader in any s...

DATE: May 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: From the Chamber

A Dinosaur Murder Mystery at Jurassic National Monument

Over 15,000 dinosaur bones, the densest deposit of Jurassic dinosaur fossils ever located, have come from multi-colored soils in Utah. How they got there, who was eating whom and what killed...

DATE: May 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Yin and yang of two separate selves

Yin-Yang is the ancient Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces. The yin is represented by the black; the yang by the white. The yin represents the ne...

DATE: May 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘I hate pickleball’

I’m 65 now, which means that, according to federal law, I have to start playing pickleball. But I don’t want to play pickleball. I hate pickleball. I’m fine with AARPers all over America lov...

DATE: May 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Thanks, senator. You must be reading the Herald’

Well, I had no idea that The Durango Herald was so powerful. If you caught my March 10 column with the headline, “Betting, transfer rules make CU ‘Compromise University,’ ” you know I was n...

DATE: May 12, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion