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Got your costume? Get your name

Snowdown enthusiasts spend months getting their costumes ready for the annual theme. For Steampunk Snowdown 2015, that means corsets, bloomers, goggles, gears and futuristic weapons. ...

Thirty employers at FLC spring job fair

More than 30 national, regional and local employers will be at the Fort Lewis College spring job fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 4. The fair is scheduled for the Student Union...

Crestview Drive water to be cut

Water will be cut off to residents Thursday in the 1800 block of Crestview Drive to allow the replacement of a water main valve. There will be no water starting at 8:30 a.m. Work ...

Interest-rate cap bill dies

Democrat joins with Republicans

Treasure finder wants to sell

Robert Evers has worked as a jack-of-all-trades after putting in 14 years in the Oklahoma oil fields. He’s a mechanic, he’s a welder and he cuts and sells firewood. Last week, he...

Tourism Office to discuss 2015 plans

Business owners, new or established, are invited to hear the Durango Area Tourism Office brief the public on its plans for 2015. Executive Director Bob Kunkel and his staff will l...

Camino lanes reopen after pole repairs

The Durango Police Department on Monday afternoon closed the northbound lanes on Camino del Rio at Ninth Street. The cause, according to the emergency services scanner, was a hang...

‘Death with dignity’ to be discussed Thursday

Roland Halpern from the national organization Compassion and Choices will discuss the history of “the right to die on our own terms” Thursday as part of Fort Lewis College’s Life Long Learni...

Art show to benefit truancy prevention

So far this school year, not a single student in Durango School District 9-R has gone before a judge for being chronically absent. Students instead have been supported through in-...

Forget to pay your parking ticket? You’re in luck

Durango’s Transit Department is offering those with overdue parking tickets an amnesty. Anyone with parking tickets issued before Oct. 24 will have a 30-day window to pay the orig...

Here’s your Snowdown daily news

Copies of the Snowdown Sneer, an annual publication dedicated to perverse reporting about affairs in Durango and beyond, appeared all over town Monday morning. This year’s edition...