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‘Joys of long marriage how personal, pragmatic moosh together’

My husband, Dan Collins, died this month because of COVID-19 and pneumonia. By the time he passed, Dan had been sedated for a while, and there’s a small controversy over what was said the la...

DATE: Jul 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Mom uses social media to disparage kids

DEAR ABBY: My mother is toxic. She had a terrible childhood, and she takes it out on me and my younger siblings. I live far away; they live in the same town as she does. If they don’t drop e...

DATE: Jul 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Bar D Wranglers serve up music, comedy

June 2, 1969, was a historic day in Durango, as it was the start of one of the longest running restaurants and shows in Durango. That’s the day the Bar D Chuckwagon opened its doors north of...

DATE: Jul 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Mountain bikes and wilderness: ‘Must we get everything in the outdoors?’

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.” — Wallace Stegner The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, wa...

DATE: Jul 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Room assignments unclear for ‘throuple’

DEAR ABBY: My 25-year-old son lives with his two girlfriends, who are also romantically involved with each other. They share a single bedroom. One of them has a baby due this week, and the o...

DATE: Jul 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Action Line’s e-bike trail primer

Dear Action Line: I am ecstatic to finally get an e-bike and continue to ride all the beautiful trails in Durango. But I was sadly disappointed that I cannot actually ride my pedal-assis...

DATE: Jul 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

No time can mean the best time

Time in rodeo and life is what you make of it

DATE: Jul 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘Far better ways to gather, sort’ mustangs

An enduring symbol, the mustang, symbolizes the largely mythological vision of the West as a place that is wild and free, similar to the eagle and the bison. The word comes from the Spanish ...

DATE: Jul 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Dad’s new wife offers sketchy advice

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I had a baby right around the time my father remarried. I didn’t know my new stepmother very well when she started giving me parenting advice. The issue is, her con...

DATE: Jul 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

When the cards you’re dealt aren’t great, hedge your bets

During the growing season of 2021, things got a little dicey here in Southwest Colorado. The winter prior, snow levels were slightly below average, which is not that unusual anymore. “Abnorm...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Advocates urge Dolores River review

Before the completion of McPhee Dam in 1984, the Dolores River was prized for its whitewater recreation. River advocates called the Dolores “a national treasure that ought to be preserved,” ...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Learning about the Milky Way

Greetings, stargazers. The Milky Way is a barred-spiral galaxy about 100,000 light years in diameter, but only about 1,000 light years thick. It contains more than 100 billion stars, and som...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies