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San Juan Mountains Association asks members to vote for board candidates

San Juan Mountains Association is seeking membership approval for candidates to serve as directors on its board in 2018. Candidates include: Jim Libby, Frank Viehmann, Kevin Neade...

DATE: Feb 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Animas Museum to host World War I French 75 party

The Animas Museum will host a party at El Moro Spirits and Tavern, 945 Main Ave., in support of the museum from 5 to 7 p.m. on February 21. The featured drink will be a French 75 ...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Seasons in Durango to host annual ‘Burning Down the House’

As has become tradition, Seasons Rotisserie & Grill will be “Burning Down the House” from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Feb. 21 as it hosts its ninth annual fundraiser benefiting Durango’s emergency respo...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

El Moro Spirits and Tavern hosts Valentine’s CRAFT

Restaurant and Suerte Tequila team up for alternative event

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Bitters are essential to a good cocktail, but which ones should you buy?

They’re the zipper on the jacket, the key to the door, the fingerprint that makes or breaks the case. They’re usually the smallest component of the drink in your glass, but if you leave them...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Western Colorado rock art vandals begging for attention

GRAND JUNCTION (AP) – Arron Buehler’s day in a western Colorado canyon might not have had the Hollywood panache of Ferris Bueller’s day off, but something about seeing Buehler’s name scrawle...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

The complex history of ‘In God We Trust’ as an American motto

Popular during the Civil War, the motto fell out of favor until its resurgence in the 1950s

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad receives wildfire mitigation award

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is one of nine national winners of the 2018 Wildfire Mitigation Awards. The awards, sponsored by the National Association of State Fo...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

How the National Prayer Breakfast sparked an unusual meeting between Muslims and evangelicals

Texas pastor Bob Roberts has traveled to Washington before for the National Prayer Breakfast, a Christian-organized networking event where evangelicals come to schmooze about topics includin...

DATE: Feb 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Apple reference books donated to libraries in Cortez, Mancos and Dolores

Seven-volume sets document varieties dating back two centuries

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Vatican to interview Chile victim in person

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony from a Chilean sex abuse victim after his pleas to be heard by Pope Fran...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion