Newsletter - The Durango Herald

Lawmakers propose legalizing medicinal ‘magic mushroom’ use in New Mexico

Bill would create program for prequalified conditions

DATE: Jan 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mancos school board commends superintendent in evaluation

Board also discusses success with its cellphone policy

DATE: Jan 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Education

PCC Southwest to offer introductory forestry and fire mitigation classes again in 2025

These classes are open to adults with high school diplomas and high school students

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Education

Alert: Fire equipment activity near Mancos Hill on U.S. Highway 160

Activity attributed to a structure fire

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Community

Southwest Conservation Corps hiring high school students for summer conservation work

There will be two four-week sessions offered, and no experience is necessary

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Education

‘Know your rights’: Ute Mountain Ute chairman speaks out about Trump’s executive orders

Chairman Manuel Heart advises members to carry two forms of ID

DATE: Jan 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hero worship: Jimmy Carter and us

I was on a Baptist mission trip in Southeast Asia in 1976 when a newspaper appeared at my motel door proclaiming Jimmy Carter as winner of the U.S. presidential election. Local people asked ...

DATE: Jan 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Grand Junction man who stabbed and killed a person in Cortez is set free

‘There’s a valid self-defense claim,’ DA says

DATE: Jan 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

What’s the latest on Farmington’s Amazon? Delivery company tips its hand

Dear Mr. Know-It-All: Has any information been released on the new Amazon building on Browning Parkway? Can you help clarify? Thanks for the column! Signed, Shop Till You Drop Dear Shop: Ful...

DATE: Jan 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Mr. Know It All

Coalition of funders supports local newsrooms across U.S.

Press Forward funding can support infrastructure, operations and reporting for small-town newsrooms

DATE: Jan 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Our View: Trump pardons gross miscarriage of justice

Found guilty, pleaded so or charged, 1,600 individuals who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are free, or will be within hours or days. For most, there was no doubt as to the extent of the...

DATE: Jan 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion