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Westward Wagons on the Oregon Trail

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and...

DATE: Sep 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

2-Bit Tom Kipp serves up an all analog listening experience

Tom Kipp is into sharing the music he’s collected his whole life. A DJ in the most traditional sense, he spins music from vinyl records played on a good-old turntable. If he hasn’t tattooed ...

DATE: Sep 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Students lose when districts ignore teachers’ previous degrees

Durango School District’s pay scale may discourage teachers with advanced degrees and undermine student success

DATE: Sep 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Boyfriend has personal relationship with boss

DEAR ABBY: I am a man whose long-distance boyfriend of one year has a married female best friend. (She’s his boss.) She is also a tobacco-addicted narcissist who drinks a lot. They chat on t...

DATE: Sep 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

The diet that fights inflammation – and why it matters for your arthritis and beyond

We hear a lot about the Mediterranean diet and its many health benefits. So, what makes this eating pattern so powerful? At its core, the Mediterranean diet is one example of an anti-inflamm...

DATE: Sep 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Thirty-one years of experience proves to be no help

Even in a drought, fly fishing can be fun with the right steps

DATE: Sep 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Flies & Lies

A better deal for students, employers and communities

For too long, we’ve treated “going to college” as if it were the same thing as “getting an education.” But that’s like saying “putting food in your mouth” is the same as “good nutrition.” It...

DATE: Sep 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

America is abandoning its most powerful defense against disease

For more than two centuries, vaccines have been humanity’s most effective shield against viral disease. In 1800, Boston physicians began using Edward Jenner’s smallpox inoculation; by 1809, ...

DATE: Sep 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

‘Always gotta be better than the other fellow!’: Work hard and love thy neighbor

Still a newcomer, I continue to marvel at Durango – the people, the place – and sometimes ask myself why it is so unique. I gained an insight into that question recently. The evening began p...

DATE: Sep 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Musical friendship has fallen out of tune

DEAR ABBY: I have a friend, “Chris,” from our teenage days. We’ve been performing music together for decades. We live in different cities but get together every few years. Over the last 20 y...

DATE: Sep 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

A note on history: How the Roberts Supreme Court is undermining Democracy

Some may dismiss me as Chicken Little, but for two decades the Roberts Court has steadily eroded America’s democratic institutions. The Roberts Court has gutted key protections of the Voting...

DATE: Sep 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A summer of loss and letting go ...

It has been a summer of loss for me. Loss of friends I love, loss of strength from an injured shoulder, loss of time at the lake and in my garden, and even perhaps the loss of our democracy....

DATE: Sep 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

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