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Creating More “Stewards of the Lands” through SJMA’s Visitor Centers

As a conversation starter, often visitors or folks who have recently moved here ask “Where are you from?” or “How long have you been here?” I respond with a confident “I grew up here.” So wh...

DATE: Apr 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Relationship hits two years without meetup

DEAR ABBY: I am a gay man who matched with another guy on a dating site two years ago this month. At first, we texted constantly. No one has ever made me feel the way he made me feel through...

DATE: Apr 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Date marking on food is misleading, but the nose knows

There comes a time in every kitchen when you’re faced with the question, “Does this smell bad?” Without hesitation, I feel my yuck face take shape and a strange combination of dread and curi...

DATE: Apr 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Our Own Lives a new way to build community

Warm weather, barbecues, playing in the local rivers and lakes, hiking, biking and launching a new way to build community! In July, the portion of Community Connections Inc. that provides se...

DATE: Apr 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Let’s play climate change game: ‘Adapt/Move/Die’

Let’s play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting . . . now. The game is called Adapt/Move/Die, and the rules are simple. The ob...

DATE: Apr 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

25-year marriage in intimacy-free zone

DEAR ABBY: I’m in a sexless 25-year marriage. It was not always this way, but any intimacy has been over for more than a decade. My wife’s libido has waned, which I understand. What she does...

DATE: Apr 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Grandma not allowed to hold baby

DEAR ABBY: My oldest daughter, “Kate,” is 22. Her baby is now 6 months old. She is the first grandchild and great-grandchild. Kate refuses to allow my mom to hold her baby. My mom has held t...

DATE: Apr 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Ragwater to hold record-release concert

It was a little more than two decades ago when Pagosa Springs-based musicians Chris Rapp and Chris Haas began their musical partnership. Vocalist Haas had asked guitar player Rapp about play...

DATE: Apr 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Pepper Trail: ‘Still so many places worth saving’

For a long time, climate change was largely perceived as a distant threat. But Oregon writer-biologist Pepper Trail, 70, who often writes for the opinion service Writers on the Range, said h...

DATE: Apr 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Nourish Your Liver: The Key to Sustainable Detoxification

It’s springtime! Let’s all pull out the green detox juice to rinse away all the winter’s guilty pleasures. Green juice and smoothies are healthy, nutrient-dense additions to your diet, and I...

DATE: Apr 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

A conscious and loving approach to death and dying

My friends Christine and Helen are death doulas. They are nonmedical professionals who provide emotional, spiritual and informational support for those nearing the end of their lives, and al...

DATE: Apr 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

Column: Chasing the eclipse

Durango man watches Monday’s total solar eclipse in Uvalde, Texas

DATE: Apr 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

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