Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

Mesa Verde National Park prefers removal of ‘trespass horses’

Proposal includes 5-year capture plan and a last resort

DATE: Apr 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Cookie Monster’s crumbs of wisdom: ‘Me always make time to follow Me passion’

Like another classic figure in history whose name begins with C: He came, he saw, he conquered. Cookie Monster. Then again, there were no signs of resistance. The belov...

DATE: Apr 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Dry winter, spring winds deliver high-risk fire conditions to Southwest Colorado

By Megan Graham As we welcome the warmer, drier, windier months that characterize spring in Southwest Colorado, this spring also brings with it an air of caution and concern for t...

DATE: Apr 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle

KFAR SABA, Israel – While most of his fellow Jews were being killed or brutalized in Nazi death camps and ghettos, Baruch Shub and his friends were hiding in the forests of the former Soviet...

DATE: Apr 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Friends of the San Juans to celebrate end of winter

Friends of the San Juans will hold its end-of-the-winter-season celebration from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Pine Needle Mountaineering, 835 Main Ave. Mark Mueller with the Colorado ...

DATE: Apr 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

USDA designates natural disaster areas

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that La Plata, Montezuma and Archuleta counties are included in the list of designated primary natural disaster areas because of losses ...

DATE: Apr 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Thank You Letters

Florida Mesa thanks C&J Gravel Products Florida Mesa Elementary School sends a huge thank you to C&J Gravel Products, Inc. for donating two loads of gravel for our track! We greatly apprecia...

DATE: Apr 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Lifestyle

Animas Valley Grange to host presentation

A talk about Russian olive removal and restoration of the Animas River watershed will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Animas Valley Grange, 7271 County Road 203. Amanda Kuenzi, co...

DATE: Apr 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Two-thirds of millennials don’t know what Auschwitz is, Holocaust study says

Two-thirds of American millennials cannot identify what Auschwitz is, according to a study released on Holocaust Memorial Day that found that knowledge of the genocide that killed 6 million ...

DATE: Apr 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Make this one-pan Spanish Eggs and Potatoes, and you’ll learn how to fry

Potatoes and onion and eggs – there’s a trio that promises good eating and many possibilities. The classic tortilla Espanola is a prime example, and some of my favorite skillet recipes go he...

DATE: Apr 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Wetland restoration to expand crucial ecosystem for hundreds of species

Sambrito project will revive 100 acres near Navajo Lake

DATE: Apr 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Israeli series exposes raw wounds from ethnic Jewish divide

JERUSALEM – An electrifying new documentary series on the problematic integration of Middle Eastern Jews by Israel’s European founders in the 1950s has reopened old wounds of an ethnic divid...

DATE: Apr 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion