Business

Mancos surveying local businesses beginning in March

part of larger growth plan

Keeping informed is good business

I don’t pretend to be as wise as Sir Francis Bacon, but he certainly had something there with the observation. It was important then, and it remains important today. At…

Farm loan delinquencies highest in 9 years as prices slump

Trump’s tariffs are making things worse for some farmers

Bad weather, real estate market chill Home Depot’s sales

home sales could impact company in 2019 as well

Mortgage rates level off after three weeks of declines

According to the latest data released Thursday by Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate average was unchanged at 4.35 percent with an average 0.5 point. (Points are fees paid to a…

Four first-time home-buying mistakes to avoid

If you’re a novice to the market, you might want to hear from experts on the biggest mistakes first-time homebuyers make. According to Corey Burr, a senior vice president at…

San Juan Organics selected for $5,000 NextCycle grant

The nine will each receive a $5,000 business development grant, mentoring from the Colorado NextCycle technical advisory committee, and technical support from Resource Recycling Systems. Teams will then have the…

New Farmers Insurance office opens

The office will be open five days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and anytime by appointment. For more information, call…

Shawna Long acquires TravelHost – Four Corners Region

The quarterly publication serves the Four Corners travelers through hotel distribution, website and social sites. The summer issue comes out mid-May. Contact Long at 759-5965 or [email protected].

Strater Hotel announces promotions

Tori Ossola has been named general manager. Most recently, Ossola served as the hotel’s rooms division manager, Ossola brings more than 25 years of experience working in the tourism and…

Colorado cannabis wants to go public, but not everyone is on board

of investor capital could be state industry’s undoing

Bayfield firm looks to revolutionize wastewater treatment

Solutions uses substance first developed for Russian space program

Let’s get Creative with our outdoors

du1-i-syn As Durangoans, many of us have had the great fortune of rafting this 280-mile geologic wonder boasting 80 big-water rapids and some of the most diverse and wondrous scenery…

Average U.S. mortgage rates fell this week

On Thursday, Freddie Mac reported U.S. long-term mortgage rates dipped this week to the lowest average in more than a year.LM Otero/Associated Press Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average…

Global recession fear suddenly stalking credit market

Almost 30 percent of respondents to the bank’s poll cited a worldwide economic slump as their largest concern, the strongest consensus for any single risk since June 2017. No one…

Know Your Dough welcomes new Board of Directors members

For more information about KYD, contact Executive Director Allison Andersen at [email protected] or 779-0607.

Local business changes name to Oxford Financial Planners

For more information, call 375-1291 or visit www.oxfordfp.net.

Animas Surgical Hospital welcomes new surgeon

Esposito has extensive subspecialty training in sports medicine, arthroscopy and foot and ankle surgeries. He received his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed…

EXIT Realty welcomes new team members

Hospice of Mercy welcomes new physician

Barbourdu1-i-syn Barbour earned her Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Arizona. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center and…

Are local businesses hurting or benefiting from storms?

D&SNG cancels three winter trains but is thankful for the snow

In new space, craft food maker has room to grow

Durango Artisan Foods now on north Main Avenue

Home sales in Montezuma County down from last year

Colorado Association of Realtors reports fewer listings, sales

194 new apartments on the way in Durango

2 of 7 residential buildings open at Rocket Pointe

Kate Wall’s ‘leap of faith’ at Zuma Natural Foods

owner Kate Wall reflects on Mancos, natural foods and community

Save the date for these events

The North Main District Clean Day will be held on May 3. This event was held for the first time one year ago, and will be repeated on an annual…

US mortgage rates fall to 12-month low; 30-year at 4.37 pct.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on the benchmark 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage declined to 4.37 percent from 4.41 percent last week. The key 30-year home borrowing rate averaged…

Banks want a hit of the marijuana business

Cannabis is legal in more than two dozen states in some form. But it is still illegal on a federal level, leaving most risk-averse banks too scared to do business…

Greenspan warns of ‘extremely imbalanced’ path of US deficit

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, during a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington in 2016.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg “This is an extremely imbalanced situation,” Greenspan, who led the Fed from…

BP gets lift from higher oil prices and increased production

The company said Tuesday that underlying replacement cost profit, the industry’s preferred gauge of earnings, rose to $3.48 billion from $2.11 billion in the same period a year earlier. The…