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Cruise Planners docks in Durango

Clutingerdu1-i-syn Owner and travel advisor Laura Clutinger specializes in getting to know clients, focusing on details and fulfilling visions within…

Homeward Heroes offer deal

For more information, call 628-3153 or visit homewardheroes.weebly.com.

Hesperus CrossCreek Ranch part of American Angus Association

The American Angus Association is the largest beef breed association in the world and helps members to advance the beef…

Deadline to apply for SBA drought loans is Dec. 12

Small nonfarm businesses in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico have until Dec. 12 to apply for a Small Business…

Durango Christian Science Church to hold Thanksgiving service

The community is invited to attend and hear the reading of the President’s Proclamation as well as readings from the…

Free ham radio exam to be held Dec. 8

The testing will start at 1 p.m., and walk-ins will be accepted until 2 p.m. Register in advance for the…

Black Friday Zumbathon dance-fitness food drive to be held Nov. 23

Three Durango Zumba instructors, Karla Sluis, Sara Illsley and Donna Middleton, will take turns leading. This event is free, but…

Bell ringers needed for Salvation Army

Money raised during the bell ringing season helps La Plata County residents. The distribution of funds is managed through the…

Old Fort Farm Incubator Program accepting applications

The program provides educational classes and access to land, water and infrastructure, such as irrigation, post-harvest sheds, coolers and a…

DeColores Civitan Club to meet Tuesday

For more information, call Christine Phillips at 385-5316.

DeColores Civitan announces new officers

The new officers are: Laura Alsum, president; Lori Bowers, president-elect; Christy Schaerer, secretary; and Christine Phillips, treasurer. They began their…

Free gift wrapping to be available at Strater

No Durango High Noon Rotary meeting this week

Mountain Middle School to hold seventh-grade presentation

Students built their own water-filtration systems as part of David Farkas’ seventh-grade class. Attendees will be able to observe the…

Durango 9-R announces holiday hours

The offices will be closed Wednesday through Friday .

Durango 9-R seeking feedback

A survey is available to help inform district staff, the district’s Long Range Planning Committee and the 9-R Board of…

Durango Daybreak Rotary meets every Wednesday

Daybreak completes projects like wood delivery to people in need, installing solar lights on the Navajo reservation, helping youths in…

Snowdown chorus line auditions slated for Dec. 8

For more information, visit www.snowdownfollies.org.

Class to address workplace drug tests

Cedar Diagnostics will host the course and discuss testing for marijuana, opioids, other drugs and alcohol. The cost is $75…

Mountain Middle School learning exhibition set for Thursday

The exhibition is part of Alec Johnson’s class where students recreate an ancient caravansary where goods, ideas and philosophies are…

Kiwanis Club to meet Thursday

Roger Zalneraitis, executive director of the La Plata Economic Development Alliance, will speak to the club. The meeting is open…

Plant-a-Tree certificates available for holiday gifts

The certificates come with a message about the number of seedlings needed to reforest an area of the San Juan…

Celebration to be held for western La Plata County water system

There will be a barbecue meal and time to meet the contractors and pick up information packets needed to hook…

Mountain Middle School utopia exhibition to be held Tuesday

Students read Lois Lowery’s “The Giver” and studied what makes an ideal society and created their own Utopian societies.