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Education center unveils new website The Southwestern Colorado Area Health Education Center recently unveiled its new website, www.swcahec.org. The improved site buil...

Stopping the spins

Physical therapists treat vertigo – a malady of the inner ear

Are you having breathing difficulties? Try singing

LONDON – In a third-floor room of a London hospital with orange and white walls draped with Tibetan prayer flags, about a dozen people gathered recently to perform vocal exercises and sing s...

Use your brain to slow memory decline

Choose cognitively stimulating hobbies

Legoland Florida expands with World of Chima

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – The world’s largest Lego theme park is expanding again, this time with a water ride, a splash zone and an interactive play area – all welcome activities for vacationing ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Navajo Pete is up from the reservation telling his friends all about weather conditions in this section since the 19th Century was young. His knowledge of the subject ante-da...

5 freebies: Not everything in Napa Valley will tap your wallet

NAPA, Calif. – Love the lush and lovely Napa Valley but hate how expensive it can be? You’re not the first. In the late 19th century, writer Robert Louis Stevenson moved his honeymoon to the...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Mrs. Newt Barton and Miss Pearl Roberts, who left Durango early Tuesday morning to walk to Mancos arrived at their destination Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. They spent the nig...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The public library has been thoroughly renovated with new curtains placed at the windows and other things added, which greatly enhance the beauty of the interior of the buil...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “On July 4, 1912, we shivered in a temperature of 42 degrees. Snow fell within five miles of town. July 4 the thermometer showed a temperature of 88 in the warmest part of the...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Instead of the Fourth of July celebration being a long drawn out affair covering three or four days with nothing of special interest on the program the Durango celebration wi...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Clem Russell will forget the troubles incident to the district clerk’s life for a few days. He was off to his Springs Creek Ranch with all the paraphernalia necessary for sha...