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Good health is a building block for success in school

With the official end of summer just around the corner, kids are packing up their backpacks, meeting their new teachers and revving up their brains for a new academic year. Back-...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Parent love kids with a unique intensity

We are at the Rec Center park, Dan and I facilitating games for a group of Col and Rose’s friends. The Colorado sun pours from the cloudless sky and barefoot children run through the grass, ...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood

Chill in the air, heat on golf courses

I felt the first signs of the approaching fall when the temperature dipped into the low fifties the last few days. Chile roasting is in full force, and the mums have arrived at the local sup...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Clubhouse Porch

If water is life, there should be life in your water

“I was water brought to lifted leaves of daffodils and day lilies/Drank into the grace of trees – the aspens like the willows weep.” – from “Drop” by Elephant RevivalTo say “water is lif...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Schultz: What do we make of us?

We were standing in the checkout line at our local grocery, this stranger and I, admiring each other’s necklace. Hers was a ruby embedded in a tiny gold leaf, a gift from her gran...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Mom hesitates to warn girls about teen drinking

MOM’S PAINFUL PAST IS WARNING TO GIRLS ABOUT TEEN DRINKING DEAR ABBY: I am the mother of two teenage girls, 13 and 15, and have been debating whether to tell them a secret about my ...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Friedman: From Kabul to Baghdad, my bird’s-eye view

BAGHDAD — I just spent eight days traveling with the Air Force to all of its key forward bases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. So President Donald Trump’s s...

DATE: Aug 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Woman chooses Facebook over conversation at home

DEAR ABBY: A large portion of conversation in our home has been replaced with the time my wife spends on her cellphone. Not that she is talking on it. It’s games and Facebook that absorb...

DATE: Aug 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Brooks: Why moderates, not warriors, should be leaders

Donald Trump is not the answer to this nation’s problems, so the great questions of the moment are: If not Trump, what? And what does the reaction to Trump look like? ...

DATE: Aug 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Husband’s relationship with daughter disgusts step-mom

DEAR ABBY: I think my stepdaughter “Caroline” has an unhealthy relationship with my husband. Caroline calls him several times a day and gets tattoos just like his. When she got a boob jo...

DATE: Aug 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Krugman: What will Trump do to American workers?

With Steve Bannon out of the White House, it’s clearer than ever that President Donald Trump’s promise to be a populist fighting for ordinary workers was worth about as much as any other Tru...

DATE: Aug 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Woman worries about family’s verbal abuse

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been together for almost a year and a half. In the beginning, he kept his family and me apart. I thought it was because they were extremely close, but ...

DATE: Aug 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby