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Long friendship upsets wife

DEAR ABBY: My husband has a female friend he grew up with. They have exchanged “happy birthday” texts for many years. However, they have recently begun texting more often. An example: One ni...

DATE: Jan 31, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

La Plata County introduces its new Healthy Homes program

The La Plata County Public Health Department has identified a need for a Healthy Homes program here in our local community. We have received a Colorado State Tobacco Education and Prevention...

DATE: Jan 31, 2025 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Inherding, ecologically informed grazing allows cattle to coexist with wolves

I’m excited for the future of ranching in Colorado and it’s because of wolves. Does that sound incongruent? It makes perfect sense, actually. It’s because cattle rancher Glenn Elzinga and hi...

DATE: Jan 31, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

I am resolved!

I am curious and wish this were online so we could take a poll of everyone who chose a New Year’s resolution and how many people stuck to said resolution. It’s a curious thing we do to ourse...

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

There are so many layers and expressions of grief

Interesting times, to say the least. So many people are going through various stages and shapes of grief. Grief for loved ones, grief for what could have been, grief for homes burned to the ...

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

Party Mountain String Band: It’s all for the love of the music

A solid bluegrass musician should be well versed in the bluegrass catalog. That catalog being the list of decades old tunes all bluegrass musicians will dig into, whether those musicians are...

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Weminuche bighorns declining from agency inaction

The recent article, “Disease die-offs continue to ravage bighorn sheep,” (Herald, Jan. 15), highlighting the failure of federal land management agencies to address risks to native bighorn sh...

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Friendship crumbles when truth emerges

DEAR ABBY: My friend of eight years has her 55-year-old son living with her. She has been driving a man around who she told me is a friend of her son’s and she knows his family. What she nev...

DATE: Jan 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Wife finds attention elsewhere

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been together for 16 years (eight years married). When we were first married, we had fun. He used to take me out on dates. He knows I enjoy dining and dancin...

DATE: Jan 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Downstream concerns concern Durango resident

Dear Action Line: My question regards the stream that comes down from the college and flows south behind the houses on Eighth Avenue and then jogs to Ninth Avenue. Is the path on the ban...

DATE: Jan 27, 2025 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Empowering students and strengthening business through work-based learning

At the Durango Chamber of Commerce, we champion work-based learning as a bridge between education and local business needs. Through partnerships with the Southwest Colorado Education Collabo...

DATE: Jan 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

The real protection Hegseth has is MAGA loyalty – and liberal scorn

Editor’s note: Pete Hegseth was confirmed as Defense Secretary on Friday night. Why aren’t more Republican senators opposed to Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense, particu...

DATE: Jan 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion