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Farmers Market Profile: Local farmers hope to become local staple of food security

Fields to Plate Produce has doubled in size every year since inception

DATE: Aug 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

San Juan Brewfest celebrates 20 years of beer

What to expect at the largest beer festival in the Four Corners

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Science Says: Hotter weather turbocharges U.S. West wildfires

As temperatures rise in the U.S. West, so do the flames. The years with the most acres burned by wildfires have some of the hottest temperatures, an Associated Press analysis of f...

DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Pope: No effort spared to fight abuse, but offers no details

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis vowed Monday that “no effort must be spared” to root out priestly sex abuse and cover-up from the Catholic Church, but gave no indication that he would take actio...

DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Hunters can check closures, fire info online

Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced that hunters can check the latest backcountry travel, fire and closure information with U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management agencies. ...

DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Watermelon and basil turn water into a party-worthy thirst-quencher

When you want something more flavorful than water to quench your thirst, and you’d like to keep it healthful, on an ordinary day it does the trick to just plop a few sliced berries, citrus w...

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

1970s probe of KKK saw evidence of resurgence in Colorado

Ron Stallworth, subject of new film, laments ending of investigation

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Water a focus for growing northern Colorado communities

GREELEY (AP) – Although Windsor owns enough water for all existing customers, town officials know more people are on the way. That means more water, and that may also mean the nee...

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Durango Dharma Center to host talk about compassion

Rebecca Bradshaw, guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley and Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, will give a talk, “Four Faces of Compassion: Mary, Tara,...

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pueblo man is helping forgotten Mexican children

PUEBLO (AP) – “My name is Priscila,” the letter begins. “And I am nine years old. I have suffered a lot. I thought being with my mother that everything would be different, but no ... ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Center of Southwest Studies to conclude lecture series

The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will conclude its “Women in the Southwest” summer lecture series at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday with a presentation by Harvey Leake, “Slim Woman...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Why Native Americans struggle to protect sacred places

Forty years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act so that Native Americans could practice their faith freely and that access to their sacred sites would be ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion