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Cookie Monster forced to cut down on cookies

New Sesame Street project aims to transform the eating habits of kids – and it’s working

A most delicate art in medical practice

Area doctors share what it takes to build solid and long-lasting relationships with their patients

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The Eastern was an hour late last night, and no train came in from Silverton. The Southern went out yesterday morning got as far as Rico, got afraid of the snow and came back...

Beware weekend heart attacks

Risk of death higher then and at night

Health Briefs

Heart Safe La Plata announces CPR classes Heart Safe La Plata will host these classes at the Durango Fire Protection District training room, 142 Sheppard Drive: An adul...

Humor cuts to truth

Navajo blogger pairs satire, politics to question motives of people in power

Navajo woman supports community’s right to vote, which was once denied

PHOENIX (AP) – As a girl growing up on the Navajo Nation in the 1950s and ’60s, LeNora Fulton remembers her parents making a major event out of voting. Her father would polish his...

Rare dinosaur unearthed near Snowmass

SNOWMASS VILLAGE (AP) – A dinosaur fossil discovered in rural Old Snowmass turned out to be a very rare beast, according to the paleontologist leading the excavation. The bones ar...

Soda can furnaces heat Denver neighborhood

DENVER (AP) – Aaron Brown has built water heaters for schools in Costa Rica and done charity work all around the world, but Metropolitan State University of Denver professor says some of the...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Owing to the departure from Durango of the society editor, the paper carries no society news this morning. Beginning next week all social news will be handled from the office...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “An institution that should be fostered and encouraged by the farmers of the San Juan Basin is the Fort Lewis Agricultural School. It needs the united support of all who have ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Whether or not there will be a 6-weeks summer school for teachers to be held at the Fort Lewis Agricultural School is expected to be definitely known here. The proposition is...