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Connie Mack World Series: Tradition meets innovation

FARMINGTON – There is something magical, yet simple, about the sport of baseball. And while there are some minor updates to rules and how the grand old game is played, the most influential c...

DATE: Jul 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

She’s back! Linda Mack Berven explains it all

Linda Mack Berven will give the first of her popular preconcert lectures for Music in the Mountains on Sunday. She’ll also preview the final two concerts on Aug. 1 and 3. These standing-room...

DATE: Jul 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Denver’s Pink Fuzz plays Cold Storage

Being in a band is an all-time job. When you’re a DIY outfit in an industry with no nine-to-five regularity it has to be, as in addition to being talented, you also manage all of the red tap...

DATE: Jul 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Chance encounter still burns

DEAR ABBY: I am a divorced man in my 60s. Twelve years ago, a neighbor woman who I’m attracted to popped into my house to have a smoke break out on my back deck. When she arrived, I was in t...

DATE: Jul 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

‘Alzheimer’s can’t keep me from running’: With dementia, get moving and mindful

When my husband, Dr. Alan Schooley, was diagnosed with Young Onset Alzheimer’s at age 51, the Denver medical team recommended the MIND Diet, intense exercise and meditation. I worked the MIN...

DATE: Jul 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

La Plata County budget crisis calls for shared responsibility and leadership

To begin, we welcome Elizabeth Philbrick to the La Plata County Board of County Commissioners, replacing Clyde Church who resigned his seat so that he could take care of his family. We thank...

DATE: Jul 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Durango Vineyard Church purchases old Nissan dealership

Dear Action Line, I heard that the Vineyard Church will take over the Nissan building as their new place of worship. Vineyard is a nondenominational Christian group. Like so many ne...

DATE: Jul 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Action Line

ICE, or how to waste billions to sabotage the economy

Someone should sic DOGE on that pork barrel with a fuse, ICE. POTUS’s “big, beautiful bill” wastes billions of taxpayers’ money funding the largest, most expensive police force in the world,...

DATE: Jul 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Go ahead be yourself, it looks good on you and you’ll flourish here

I had an epiphany the other day. It was low key as epiphanies go, easily overlooked, but it illuminated an aspect of how life is lived in Durango. I’ll explain. The day began with two of us ...

DATE: Jul 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Wife blames mother for infidelity

DEAR ABBY: When my daughter, “Trish,” and her husband separated, I reached out to each of them for occasional check-ins. Trish left him after confessing to infidelity via email. He messaged ...

DATE: Jul 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

If history is any guide, this moment signals a new beginning about to commence

Not proud, wanting to be, but just not feeling it. That sums up the mood of young adults in America these days. The numbers don’t lie, the youngest two generations are significantly less lik...

DATE: Jul 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Mother-in-law playing for keeps

DEAR ABBY: I am married to a man who is incarcerated. As you can imagine, it’s been hard on our family. I have two kids with him. I was pregnant with our youngest when he was arrested. Accor...

DATE: Jul 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

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