Action Line - The Durango Herald

Ski pass has fewer blackouts and insurance for whiteouts

My husband and I are retired and buy weekday season passes at Purgatory. We purchase them in April for the early discount. The Purg website said weekday-pass blackout dates had been reduced ...

DATE: Apr 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Sounding out car names makes wrong turns of phrase

Check out this classified advertisement that appeared in The Durango Herald last week. Don’t you think that if you can afford a Mercedes, you’d know how to spell it? – Mary Kay Aigner ...

DATE: Mar 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

1946 Alley to Nowhere inspires today’s bridge, lake

Why is the alley between Main Avenue and West Second Avenue blocked off between 28th and 29th streets? It’s been that way for as long as I can remember, but I never knew why. Thanks, Allie W...

DATE: Mar 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Tubing hill’s ills only worsened by icky ice

Have you noticed those large piles of ice shavings on the east side of the Chapman Hill ice rink? Why not move the piles to the other side of the facility and spread them over the tubing hil...

DATE: Mar 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

To get bus service, Mercury pulled out all the stops

Please help me figure this out. The city’s Transit buses don’t stop at the Durango Mall, neither pick up nor drop off. The “T” Bus is great and the drivers will do anything to help passenger...

DATE: Mar 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

City staffer pulls no punches over tiny special-events area

Along the Animas River Trail by the fish hatchery, there’s a pile of straw topped with an orange safety cone. Four re-bar sections were pounded in the ground, and yellow plastic tape surroun...

DATE: Feb 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Fighting electronic waves requires Internet surfing

A Letter to the Editor last week claimed residents are “under attack” from smart meter “electromagnetic radiation thanks to the FCC.” The letter-writer suggested that we should learn more by...

DATE: Feb 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Strange roadside object requires thinking outside the box

It’s a stupid question, but what’s that thing along U.S. Highway 550/160 by Basin Co-op? It looks like a metal box on top of a pole. It’s between the frontage road and the highway. I’ve been...

DATE: Feb 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Contrary to map, Bodo Park isn’t skiing’s newest epicenter

I enjoyed the column about Google Maps showing ponds on Smelter Mountain because Google was using data dating back to the Eisenhower administration. But here’s another mistake: Apparently, B...

DATE: Feb 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Road with 7 different names borders on crazy

I was driving up North College Drive, and just past the hairpin turn, there’s a sign that says “County Road 239.” Across the road at the annoying flashing speed limit sign, there’s a “Durang...

DATE: Jan 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Large snowman on rooftop gets a frosty reception

Does the city of Durango have a policy regarding gigantic inflatable objects – like a snowman – on top of business rooftops downtown? I think they’re very tacky! Sign me, Tired Of Looking At...

DATE: Jan 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Action Line Mercy cleaned daily; Durango topo maps untouched since 1963

The Help Wanted ads had an interesting item the other day from Mercy Regional Medical Center. The hospital listed an opening for an “Environmental Services Worker.” But further on in the ad,...

DATE: Jan 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Action Line