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Researchers show gut microbes might be useful in fighting fat

WASHINGTON – Call it a hidden ally: The right germs just might be able to help fight fat. Different kinds of bacteria that live inside the gut can help spur obesity or protect aga...

Some flu vaccines working overtime

Treatments now target certain specific populations

And the West is History

100 years ago: “While gathering wild logan berries south of town, Miss Sherry Fipp came face to face with a snake. The reptile saw her first and tried to get into a prairie dog hole, but She...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The Trimble Springs School will commence its sessions with the Misses Bendure, McCarty and Freed as its staff of instructors. Wish we were young and lived in Trimble.” ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The Durango band will present to the pleasure seeking public a musical comedy ‘Pocahontas.’ They have secured the services of Mrs. J.M. Sulivan as directoress.” 75...

And the West is History

By Sarah Silvernail Herald Staff Writer 100 years ago: “Yesterday we landed a 50-cent express package in Hesperus for 15 cents. This parcel post is a great, grand exter...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “John Sponsel left for his home in the Thompson’s Park country, his rig being the center of the admiring gaze of quite a few people.” 75 years ago: “A prospector wh...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Traveling engineer James W. Hopper was an arrival coming over to see that the boys don’t use too much coal or toot their whistles when they should open their throttles.” ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Grant Sanders is back on the job as conductor of the Southern passenger between Durango and Telluride, after a month’s rest. Forest White, who had been ‘subbing’ for him, wil...

Expo to take holistic approach

90 exhibits scheduled at local fairgrounds for event’s 18th year

Students skip veggies, schools dump lunches

Program falters when kids refuse to eat

Districts reaping fewer profits from junk food, soft-drink sales

ATLANTA – There’s been a big shift in how many school districts take money from soda companies and ban junk food from vending machines, health officials say. A government survey f...