Religion
Religion Briefs
Har Shalom Children’s Religious School is running for the new year. The school will offer books and crafts for children from ages 3 to 11. Younger and older siblings are…
Local Briefs
Local News
Local Briefs
The 29th annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner will take place from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 26 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. Volunteers are needed for…
Nation & World
Nation Briefs
Asaro NEW YORK – An aging mobster has been acquitted of charges he helped plan the 1978 Lufthansa heist that was retold in the hit Mafia movie “Goodfellas.” A New…
Nation & World
World Brief
PARIS – France’s leadership is bristling at U.S. resistance to making a global climate accord under negotiation in Paris next month legally binding. French President François Hollande, whose country is…
Outdoors
Outdoors Briefs
Colorado Parks and Wildlife will offer a 2015 holiday incentive of a free Colorado Outdoors subscription with online purchase of an annual parks pass or $70 gift certificate now through…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
The Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., announces the Creede Repertory Theatre Workshop Series with a Improv Comedy Workshop from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday with Jessica Jackson,…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
SEATTLE – Customers returned to Pacific Northwest Chipotle restaurants on Wednesday as the chain reopened after an E. coli outbreak that sickened about 45 people in Washington state and Oregon.…
Health
Health Briefs
A restaurant food safety class will be held from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds Extension Building, 2500 Main Ave. The course is…
Good Earth
Earth Briefs
Durango Botanical Society’s Library Demonstration Garden will be featured in a nationally distributed pamphlet by the North American Rock Garden Society, The 11 Rock Gardens of Colorado. The garden also…
Local News
Local Briefs
A Christmas in November Sale will take place Saturday at the Southern Ute Museum Gift Shop, 503 Ouray Drive in Ignacio. Discounts of 10 percent will be available on purchases…
Business
Business Briefs
Sorrel Sky Gallery welcomes new sales associate, Ariel Rodriguez, to its team. Rodriguez has a specialized knowledge of diamonds and a background in fine jewelry sales. She recently relocated to…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is nominating a new director for the Office of Personnel Management. It’s the official who’s been in charge temporarily ever since the previous director resigned…
Food
On the side
As part of this week’s “Zia Days” celebration, Zia Taqueria is donating a portion of its profits from both its north and south locations on Nov. 10-12 to the Garden…
Local News
Local Briefs
The Friends of the Durango Public Library’s biggest book sale of the year will be from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the library, 1900 East Third…
Education
Education Briefs
The students of Park Elementary School will host a special musical performance in honor of Veterans Day from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. They are also preparing a banner to…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open…
Local News
Local Briefs
The La Plata County commissioners will return to Marvel for an “On the Road” meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Marvel Grange, 217 County Road 133A. The public is…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Student protests over racial incidents on the University of Missouri campus escalated over the weekend when at least 30 black football players announced they will not participate…
Local News
Local Briefs
Fort Lewis College alumna Alexandria Bombach traveled to Afghanistan to meet and tell the story of Afghan photographers working there. Her documentary, “Frame by Frame,” will be shown at 7…
Regional News
Region Briefs
COLORADO SPRINGS – A Colorado marijuana dispensary is opening what is thought to be the world’s first combination pot dispensary and gas station. The Gas & Grass business opened Saturday…
Local News
Local Briefs
Breen Community Building, 15300 Colorado Highway 140 in Hesperus, will host a dance featuring the band Million Dollar Highway at 8 p.m. Saturday. The cost is $5 per person. All…
Nation & World
Nation Briefs
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – Defense Secretary Ash Carter is pointing to Russia and China as potential threats to global order. In a speech Saturday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library,…
Local News
Local Briefs
Two locations in the Durango area will serve as collection sites for Operation Christmas Child. The annual Samaritan’s Purse project fills shoeboxes with toys, school supplies, hygiene items and notes…
Nation & World
Nation Briefs
WASHINGTON – Douglas Hughes has said repeatedly in recent months that he objected to doing “significant hard jail time” for landing a gyrocopter outside the U.S. Capitol to call attention…
Nation & World
World Briefs
TALLINN, Estonia – The three Baltic countries will “scientifically” calculate the losses caused by nearly five decades of Soviet occupation so they can seek compensation from Russia. Estonian Justice Minister…
Education
Education Brief
The Friends of the Durango Public Library announced winners of its annual Bookmark Contest and presented awards at the city council meeting Nov. 2. All students from the Durango community…
Religion
Religion Briefs
St. Columba Parish invites Catholics to return to the church. St. Columba offers “Landings,” a way to further explore faith and spirituality. During several sessions, a small group of active…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
NEWARK, N.J. – Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have been bumped from the main stage at next week’s GOP presidential debate, while George Pataki and Lindsey Graham have been cut…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Briefs
Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave., will host Ute Elder Joseph Rael for a question-and-answer session and signing of his book being & vibration: Entering the New World at 6:30 p.m.…
Outdoors
Outdoors Briefs
Colorado Parks and Wildlife offers all military men and women free admission to Colorado’s state parks on Veterans Day, Wednesday. To find a park, visit http://cpw.state.co.us/placestogo/parks/Pages/ParkMap.aspx. To obtain free admission…