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Free public transit Friday
A Durango Transit vehicle pulls into the Transit Center on Eighth Street to pick up passengers for it’s route. Durango Transit will be free Friday.SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald file photo The…
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Punks in the window
Julia Anderson gets her face painted in Steampunk style Wednesday morning by Justa Whitt in the window-sitting area of the Steaming Bean on Main Avenue. Snowdown kicked off Wednesday and…
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Cribbage proves popular at Elks Lodge
A record 152 competitors showed up Wednesday night for the 15th annual Snowdown Cribbage Tournament at the Durango Elks Lodge.John Peel/Durango Herald Organizer Joni Paul had to quiet the big…
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Soni Stevens … Steampunk Style!
Soni Stevens and dozens of others competed in Bull Riding … Steampunk Style! on Wednesday evening at the Wild Horse Saloon. Results weren’t immediately available, but Stevens and her contestants…
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Sweatin’ the small stuff
With snow still on the mountainside behind him, Matt Drendel works on cuts and relay plays with his tournament baseball team, the Blue Chip Mountaineers, on Tuesday afternoon at Escalante…
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Animas High looking for new head of school
Animas High School, located near the base of Twin Buttes, is searching for someone to fill the position of head of school and executive director.Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file photo Board…
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Local Briefs
The Life-Long Learning Lecture Series at Fort Lewis College will present “To Every Season: Death with Dignity” at 7 p.m. Thursday in Noble Hall, Room 130 at FLC. Advances in…
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Dayplanner Wednesday
Kiwanis of the Narrow Gauge meeting, 6:45-7:30 a.m., Carver Brewing Co., 1022 Main Ave., 375-0079. Durango Daybreak Rotary Club meeting, 7 a.m., Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave. Sunrise…
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Terminally ill offered ‘Death with Dignity’
Measure would allow Coloradans to end their lives
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Tipton to visit Durango Thursday
U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, will visit Durango and Cortez on Thursday.Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file photo Tipton, R-Cortez, will meet with the Board of County Commissioners from 8 to 9:15…
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County gives lukewarm forecast in annual address
Long-term decline in property-taxes imperils finances
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Durango alley to close for work
A dog crosses a snow-covered alley between Main Avenue and East Second Avenue near Ninth Street.SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald file photo The alley will be closed during work hours to pedestrians…
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Ice-fishing tourney planned at Vallecito
Ben Zimmerman of Bayfield ice fishes on Vallecito Reservoir in 2013. An ice-fishing tournament will be held on the reservoir for the first time in five years.SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald file…
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2015 Steampunk Snowdown Schedule
All week Snowdown Theme contest, through noon Sunday, Magpie’s Newsstand Cafe, 707 Main Ave., 382-0518. Snowdown Search for “The Silver Bullet,” award ceremony, 5 p.m. Saturday, Durango Elks Lodge, 901…
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The Blotter
Monday 9:12 p.m. A car parked in front of the Main Event was playing music loudly at 42 Florida Road. 9:24 p.m. An intoxicated man got into someone’s car outside…
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First tubers of the year stay ‘toasty’
Unless you’re Jennifer Murphy. “In 2009, I had tubed on a river in Vermont,” Murphy said, “and last year I tried to get people to join me, but I started…
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Councilors ask for consistent accessory-unit laws
Neighborhood association raises concerns
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Monday was warm, but it wasn’t record warm
It was the warmest temperature recorded for the date at the airport in observations dating to 1996. The airport recorded 51 degrees in 2002 and 2014, according to the National…
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Animas High looking for new head of school
Anyone with questions is urged to contact board president Melissa Youssef at [email protected] or attend the board meeting Tuesday starting at 5:30 p.m. at the high school, 110 Twin Buttes…
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Bluebird day for jibbing
With school out for a teacher-development day Monday, 12-year-old Peyton Bryant knew how to spend his free time: snowboarding with buddies at Chapman Hill. The National Weather Service forecasts only…
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Eye in the sky
Mike Willing, with the Colorado Department of Transportation, rinses a traffic camera cover just south of Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort on U.S. Highway 550 on Monday. The camera was…