A group of dedicated volunteers, coaches and parents put on a nighttime cross country meet at Hillcrest Golf Course. With the help a few strategically placed lights and hundreds of…
And now, we are left with honorable mention. Could it be: 2015 Best of Durango & La Plata County, presented by The Durango Herald? Perhaps not. What a waste of…
Mr. Sheldon was an exceptional manager, balancing ideological aspirations with the feasibility of those goals. He inspired me to run for student council in my sophomore year to give back…
The United States is now the top oil producer in the world, but an antiquated policy prohibiting it from exporting crude oil threatens jobs across the nation. A law, enacted…
Fortunately the snake had been discovered by my dogs shortly after becoming entangled, so was still in very good condition and able to go about his business once freed. All…
Progress on Lake Nighthorse not visible at all. Nothing is happening as you can see. This confusion continues to puzzle me. Remember the bureaucrats doing this to you. It took…
The coal mine has also been in violation of several county codes with the hauling of the coal out of Hay Gulch, but the Planning Department and the Board of…
No one believes that their dogs bark. Most dog owners have become tone deaf to their dogs’ barks or have given up trying to quell them. The main problem is…
Matt is a 2008 graduate of Colorado College and attended public schools for 12 years. He worked for Durango’s Boys and Girls Clubs for two years and is known by…
Of course those “ample” margins – just a moment while I suppress a laugh – that must be why you will often see Stan, Sheri, Eric, Brad, Mike, Les, or…
King Coal is a very good coal. It has been shipped to Japan for steel-making. I worked for BHP, an Australian company, at the La Plata Mine just below the…
The story of these initiatives goes back to 2005, when the Legislature passed SB 152 at the behest of large telecommunication companies such as CenturyLink. The statute restricts the ability…
I, for one, will take my $14 refund check and immediately donate it to a local charity where it might do some good. I urge others to do the same.…
I wonder if this had anything to do with Olivarius-McAllistar’s decision to move on. Also, I am curious as to what kind of disciplinary action (if any) has occurred for…
There was an opportunity to instill trust in government. Instead, the county’s actions played into conspiracy theorists’ ludicrous idea that the EPA “did this on purpose” and demonstrated little support…
And yet the people who call these mountains home are turning their backs on their most important resource. I can’t blame anyone for being scared or skeptical of mine reclamation,…
As we’ve all learned since the Animas disaster, our river is just one of hundreds in Colorado that has been silently polluted over the past decades thanks to unaccountable mining…
But you totally dropped the ball on Solheim Cup coverage. This is a huge international event with a strong patriotic component. And this year, the American women golfers overcame the…
The Animas does not even run through Silverton, as its headwaters are south of town limits. The offending mines are north of Silverton, and the creeks that carry the pollution…
After the ugly plume made its way through town, the community hit a very fragile state, affecting members of the recreational community to the small-business community. The mustard-colored water was…
It is imperative that a peaceful solution be found for Syria itself. That will take strong diplomatic action on the part of the U.S., Europe and Russia, but the issue…
Durango quickly needs to install a safer way for everyone to use the roadway, including pedestrians. I know I am not the only one to have an incident like this,…
He complains stakeholders downstream are bashing the residents of Silverton: “(Silverton) has its own pristine drinking water sources and has no need for irrigation water because there is no agriculture…
Surely this is a much more direct delivery of this extra water to downstream users than hoping it will flow through the ground without first evaporating or being lost to…
The impacts are already dramatic in Alaska, but here in Colorado it’s happening, too. We are seeing a growing trend of reduced snowpack and we’ve just experienced yet another of…
In Colorado, we are contending with longer and more destructive wildfire seasons, reduced snowpack and increased incidence of respiratory disease. Research from the Union of Concerned Scientists and a climate…
Then, on Sept. 17, I watched the Denver Broncos game, and it was over after 9 p.m., and the Durango Herald had an article in the next day’s paper about…
This comes from an organization that tells young, scared, pregnant girls that their child is “just a blob of tissue.” I have news, you can’t donate brains and hearts, lungs…
