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Relatives like to drop in unannounced

DEAR ABBY: Some relatives come once or twice a year from out of state to stay at my in-laws’ house. For the past 20-plus years, it has been the same routine. They show up, but we never know ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Know your options: Health coverage open enrollment begins soon

Colorado’s health exchange open enrollment is just around the corner. Connect for Health Colorado and Colorado Connect enrollment starts Nov. 1, and continues through Jan. 15, 2025. Now is...

DATE: Oct 3, 2024 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Vote to fix our local schools: Vote Yes on 4A

I urge you to stand with students and teachers of Durango School District 9-R by voting YES On 4A on this fall’s ballot, which will provide overdue modernization to our schools’ electrical, ...

DATE: Oct 3, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Backstage Series features Thom Chacon, Bobby Marquez

Bobby Marquez’s music career started with a Martin guitar pulled from a trash can. The singer-songwriter, whose croon-heavy, country sound has led to him working with producer Jerry Crutchfi...

DATE: Oct 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Channel your inner cowboy (and cowgirl)

It’s hard to be friends with your neighbor if you never meet them. In a world of growth and digital communication, communities can struggle to maintain meaningful, face-to-face relationships...

DATE: Oct 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Ex-wife likes to stir the pot

DEAR ABBY: I am dating an older man with two ex-wives. I have met both of them. I don’t mind them. The last ex-wife and I get along. She usually calls me because he won’t answer his phone fo...

DATE: Oct 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Couple stunned by friends’ beliefs

DEAR ABBY: We are a male couple celebrating 34 years of partnership. We recently took a cruise, during which we met four straight couples traveling together who welcomed us into their group....

DATE: Oct 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Why fighting Tipple traffic light is an uphill battle

Dear Action Line: Why does the Twin Buttes neighborhood have its own traffic light? Westbound traffic on U.S. Highway 160 is often stopped (killing momentum for the climb, I might add) f...

DATE: Sep 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Calling all cowboys

Come celebrate Durango’s Western heritage in October

DATE: Sep 29, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

Generous gift comes with conditions

DEAR ABBY: My fiance and I have been together for 14 years. A few months ago, his mother told us she had inherited a home that had belonged to her parents, and she wanted to gift it to us. I...

DATE: Sep 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

How a terrorism exhibit in Colorado distorts the story of Jan. 6

When the CELL first opened in 2008, Melanie Pearlman, the executive director, remarked to a Denver Post reporter that the exhibit transcended partisanship. Everyone could agree, after all, t...

DATE: Sep 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

‘Yes’ to Proposition 127: It’s well past time to stop maligning lions

We want to thank the editor for apologizing to proponents of Proposition 127 for failing to interview us before abruptly issuing an opinion. We are 27 locals, including seasoned wildlife bio...

DATE: Sep 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns