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Strong second half leads Durango boys soccer to senior day win

Demons beat Palisade, 4-2, on Saturday afternoon in regular season finale

DATE: Oct 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Durango wins high school mountain bike state championship

Durango’s Clausen, Animas’ Sandau finish on podium

DATE: Oct 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Durango volleyball finishes season on high note with win over Grand Junction

Demons send seniors off with 3-1 victory at home on Saturday

DATE: Oct 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Durango football’s Cheatham commits to play at Wyoming

Offensive lineman has been key part of Demons’ success in 2025

DATE: Oct 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Durango football scores most points since 2021 in senior night blowout

Six Demons scored in 63-12 victory on Friday

DATE: Oct 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Fantastic freshman helping lead Skyhawks volleyball to success

Cambria Freymuth leads team in kills as FLC has had strong season

DATE: Oct 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

What to watch: Colorado Division I football Week 9

Buffaloes return from bye with tough road test

DATE: Oct 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Blue Jays in World Series for first time since before Ohtani was born, while Dodgers seek to repeat

NEW YORK (AP) — When slugger Joe Carter hit the last World Series pitch thrown in Canada over the left-field wall to win the Toronto Blue Jays' second consecutive title, it was 8 1/2 months ...

DATE: Oct 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Wolverines salvage draw with Pirates

Tie dashes Bayfield’s league-title hopes

DATE: Oct 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

NBA head coach and player charged in sprawling sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes

NEW YORK (AP) — The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat were arrested Thursday along with more than 30 other people in two cases alleging sprawling crimi...

DATE: Oct 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Cortez lead dispatcher completes grueling Moab240 ultramarathon despite extreme weather

The ultramarathon lasted from Oct. 10 to Oct. 15

DATE: Oct 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Here’s how local high school sports teams stand in playoff rankings

Most teams have less than two weeks left in regular season

DATE: Oct 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Sports

Colorado history gets weird, wild, wacky at Fashion Do’s and Don’tsAnnual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Cowboys. Fancy ladies. Gold miners. Even-toed ungulates that some in Durango might consider more like rats.Where can you find a runway show that takes you on a whirlwind tour through the weird, wacky and wildly exaggerated 150 years of Colorado history? Only at Durango’s annual Fashion Do’s and Don’ts, held Wednesday, where models and audience members wore costumes celebrating Colorado’s sesquicentennial – the theme of this year’s two-week Snowdown celebration.Standout acts included the Ghosts of Durango, which featured four of Durango’s most famous ghosts: a Rochester hotel ghost in a Victorian get-up of a more “modern” variation; the Strater Hotel’s head of housekeeping, also head of more discreet services; a young girl haunting El Rancho’s bathroom; and Sheriff Bob Thompson, killed in a 1906 gunfight. according to emcee Suzan Lane. A Another act was the Secret Circus Society, featuring Rubi Starr, Jeni Gross, Tabatha Joy Bettin, Adrienne Young and Ethan Deffenbaugh dressed as a car and the roadside pests better known as deer. Group members said the inspiration for the costume came from lived experiences driving Durango roads. The two-person Cantine Couture act starred Leslie Ponce and Tyler Frakes in an homage to the plentiful variety of Mexican restaurants found in any Colorado town. Ponce, dressed in comically large Mexican pointy cowboy boots, ambled down the runway as if taking a stroll under the hot, dusty, high-altitude sun, while Frakes flitted about the stage in a bright yellow salsa dress. Ponce said this year’s costume had been tough to decide, but the final decision was inspired by TikTok videos of Mexican cowboys in pointy boots. This was the duo’s third year strutting down the runway. Why they keep coming back for more, Frakes said laughing, was, “for the fame, the glory and the attention.”

Fashion Do’s and Don’ts has been one of the most highly anticipated Snowdown events since its inception in the 1990s. It has more than doubled in size over the past several decades. Last year, there were a record number of models, and in order to keep the event at a manageable size, this year’s fashion show was the first one to require the acts to audition. But many of the models were unfazed by the change. “It was actually easy,” said Jodi Zuber, one part of the two-person duo that made up the 1950s Texas Invader Ski Couple. Her partner-in-costume, Danny Jaques, said they had been doing this for several years, and it’s good with everything going on in the world to “get some levity and let your hair down.” The performers were not the only ones in costume. Audience members also dressed in a wide variety of unique takes on what makes Colorado, Colorado. JonBenet Ramsey made a miraculous appearance, being played by an 82-year-old woman, as did Casa Bonita, an ensemble that included a taco, sopaipilla and gorilla in chains – to name some of the characters. By the end of the show, people were in high spirits, as usual. “It was just delightful,” said a first-time audience member. If blessed with the chance to get the much coveted tickets – he said he would jump on it. jbowman@durangoherald.com

Annual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Photos: Snowdown 2026 Fashion Do’s and Don’ts

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

About a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

The Durango Herald’s year in photos 2025

Photos: Chapman Hill fires up the snow guns

Strong second half leads Durango boys soccer to senior day win

Durango wins high school mountain bike state championship

Durango volleyball finishes season on high note with win over Grand Junction

Durango football’s Cheatham commits to play at Wyoming

Durango football scores most points since 2021 in senior night blowout

Fantastic freshman helping lead Skyhawks volleyball to success

What to watch: Colorado Division I football Week 9

Blue Jays in World Series for first time since before Ohtani was born, while Dodgers seek to repeat

Wolverines salvage draw with Pirates

NBA head coach and player charged in sprawling sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes

Cortez lead dispatcher completes grueling Moab240 ultramarathon despite extreme weather

Here’s how local high school sports teams stand in playoff rankings

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