Pine River Times Opinion - The Durango Herald

Assessor's office sending valuations

It is the time of year when the assessor's offices of Colorado report on the value of all real estate properties in their counties. We inform individual owners with a Notice of Valuation (NO...

DATE: Apr 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Take Christi Zeller's word for it!

The oil and gas behemoths must be desperate. Having worked double shift to degrade this planet for their obscene profits, they now send their paid bully Christi Zeller - the lady...

DATE: Apr 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Barger announces LPEA candidacy

I am Karen Barger, owner of Seasons Rotisserie & Grill. We are actively involved in the community and as a business owner I support local farmers and ranchers and back agriculture, sustainab...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Standardized testing available for home school students

In the spring, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of . standardized testing? While the great poet Tennyson actually completed the previous sentence with the word love, many Colorado stude...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

BLM management plan lacking, but leasing plan is positive move

We were encouraged to learn that Connie Clementson, BLM's Tres Rios Field Office (TRFO) Manager, recently committed to putting a Master Leasing Plan back on the table for southwest Colorado....

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Easter should be a holiday

I'm afraid Easter - the most important religious holiday of the year for Christians - is going the way of other holy days, turning into a secular opportunity to buy more stuff. He...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

LLP class organizers thank sponsors

The coordinators of the Health and Human Services section of Leadership La Plata 2014-2015 would like to express our sincere THANKS to those who made our day possible, pleasant and productiv...

DATE: Mar 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

We're special, darn it, because we say so

All our children are above average, and we're special, and it's not just us that says so. OK, I'm joking about some of that, but sometimes it's good to have an outsider come to a ...

DATE: Mar 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Win or lose, we're proud of our basketball boys

The boys playing on the Bayfield basketball team have had three coaches in three years. They had an 11-10 season. They only had one league victory during the regular se...

DATE: Mar 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Sportsman Association thanks donors

The Vallecito Conservation and Sporting Association thanks the following donors to its annual potluck and auction on Jan. 24: Amerigas, Arnie's Lures, Barb and Jamie Wagner, Basin...

DATE: Mar 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

On Monday morning, I will want my missing hour back

Spring forward and fall back. What a cutesy-foo-foo way of making our lives a veritable hell. I think Daylight Savings Time was invented to drive working mothers nuts. ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Whacky weather leads to random thoughts

We hope winter is coming back this weekend, but we've hoped for that during the past few storms that have shot right over us to the north, and we've had zip for snow. Don't get me...

DATE: Feb 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

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Snowdown Light Parade can boast another successful yearLights flashed, fire trucks wailed and a foam cannon spewed suds

Bright lights, screaming fire trucks and children bundled up so thoroughly it seemed like an army of Michelin men had taken over downtown Durango. Yep. It’s the much anticipated Snowdown light parade, this year distinguished by a crowd of onlookers peppered with scrabble tiles, Clue characters and playing cards.

Locals flocked to Main Avenue on Friday to get a look (and maybe a Smartie or two) at the floats parading through town on various, creatively decorated vehicles. There were some obvious standouts at this year’s board game-themed parade. After a fire truck’s opening sirens came the Purgatory car, toting a brightly lit ski bum moonlighting as a DJ, likely giving the women of Durango some unpleasant déjà vu. Best dressed had to go to the Colorado Department of Transportation’s bulldozer, wearing the most believable Hungry Hungry Hippos costume seen yet. Biggest crowd pleaser? The dancers boogieing to Chappell Roan’s “HOT TO GO!” while the crowd sang and wiggled along. But what got the biggest rise out of the onlookers was the white plumes of motorcycle exhaust, courtesy of the Harley-Davidson club. The smell of burning octane was a convincing enough reason for people to briefly unclutch the rails and step away from their coveted positions at the front of the fence. Last but not least, another machine spewing its interior into the crowd: a foam cannon, the first one to make an appearance in the history of Snowdown. Much better received than exhaust, it extracted gleeful screams from kids and adults alike. jbowman@durangoherald.com