Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

Defensive gardening will help your flowers, vegetables thrive

By Maureen Keilty “Defensive gardening” isn’t described in any grower’s manual. Yet it’s the method used to create the area’s most impressive flower gardens and vegetable beds. ...

DATE: May 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Silverton students examine the town’s untold stories

Fourth-, fifth-graders explore numerous cultures with a role in state’s history

DATE: May 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Amid conflict, Jews and Muslims in U.S. seek solidarity

DETROIT – As turmoil spreads through the Middle East, American Jews and Muslims have been forming alliances to build trust and seek solidarity in more ambitious ways than in the past, a shar...

DATE: May 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Teens with health challenges learn to support each other through peer mentorship

Similar groups offered for parents of kids with chronic health conditions

DATE: May 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Video series to start at Southern Baptist Church

An eight-week video series, called “A Tour of Prophecy,” by David Jeremiah will start June 6 in the fellowship hall at First Southern Baptist Church, 1715 West Second Ave. The ser...

DATE: May 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Mancos State Park to offer weekend activities

Memorial Day weekend fun, free fishing planned

DATE: May 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Thank You Letter

Know Your Dough appreciates support Know Your Dough, a Durango nonprofit that provides financial literacy programs tailored to the needs of local youths and young adults, would like to thank...

DATE: May 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Lifestyle

Prominent Baptist leader removed as head of Texas seminary

FORT WORTH, Texas – A former head of the Southern Baptist Convention was removed Wednesday as president of a Texas seminary following allegations of “unbiblical teaching” through sexist and ...

DATE: May 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

A look at the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world began fasting on Thursday from sunrise to sunset for the month of Ramadan, a time of contemplation, fortitude a...

DATE: May 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Farmers Market Profile: Schwebach’s Cedar Hill Farm brings produce from down south

For Michael and Diane Schwebach, the owners of Schwebach’s Cedar Hill Farm, farming has long been a family business. Before, relocating to Cedar Hill, New Mexico – just across the...

DATE: May 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Joshua Arnold carries on family’s vinting legacy

Wines of the San Juan’s cabernet sauvignon wins international Double Gold

DATE: May 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

LGBT community cheers pope’s ‘God made you like this’ remark

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ reported comments to a gay man that “God made you like this” have been embraced by the LGBT community as another sign of Francis’ desire to make gay people feel ...

DATE: May 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion