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Southwest Colorado residents win wildfire mitigation awards

FireWise of Southwest Colorado announces that Rebecca Samulski, FireWise assistant director, and Jim Tencza, neighborhood ambassador for Timberdale Ranch in La Plata County, are recipients o...

DATE: Feb 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Workshops in Mancos to help beginning farmers, ranchers

The Southwest Farm Fresh Cooperative will co-host two workshops in February for beginning and expanding farmers and ranchers. The workshops will take place at the Mount Lookout Gr...

DATE: Feb 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Native plant society to discuss ‘Amazing Aster Family’

The Southwest Chapter of the Colorado Native Plant Society will offer a free presentation at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Lyceum Room of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis...

DATE: Feb 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Durango restaurants roll out Valentine’s Day specials

From breakfast to late-night drinks, eateries have you covered

DATE: Feb 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Durango restaurants roll out Valentine’s Day specials

From breakfast to late-night drinks, eateries have you covered

DATE: Feb 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

No joke: I must have mushrooms

Have you heard the one about the mushroom who walks into a bar? I will spare you the whole shebang, but the punchline is, “I’m a fungi!” I tell that joke far too often, partly bec...

DATE: Feb 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Zuni Cafe cookbook – like having a beloved teacher at my side

As memorably as I’ve eaten away from home over the years, there’s no restaurant, anywhere, that calls to me like Zuni Cafe in San Francisco, where for four glorious years in the 1990s, I cov...

DATE: Feb 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

What the Fluff? An American lunchbox icon is turning 100

SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Fluff turns 100 this year, and the marshmallow concoction that has been smeared on a century’s worth of schoolchildren’s sandwiches has inspired a festival and other stic...

DATE: Feb 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

New Stonefish chef makes a splash in Cortez

Chad Ross brings rare sushi skills to table

DATE: Feb 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Pumpkin Chia Breakfast Pudding is nutritious, delicious

Everyone I know is looking for a quick breakfast that is loaded with healthy ingredients and great taste. A few years ago, when the chia seed became popular for something besides the “Chia P...

DATE: Feb 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Pork industry says not to worry about a bacon shortage

DES MOINES, Iowa – An insatiable demand for bacon depleted frozen pork belly supplies in the U.S. to a record low level for December, but the pork industry is confident it can keep up with d...

DATE: Feb 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

This Boulder dog has a newspaper route

BOULDER (AP) – Many dogs are trained to fetch their owners’ newspapers. But one Boulder canine has separated himself from the pack by helping deliver papers to an entire neighborhood. ...

DATE: Feb 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life