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The Blotter
Friday 5:16 a.m. People were trying to enter vehicles in the Walmart parking lot. Thursday 7:39 a.m. A client with a knife was refusing to leave Manna Soup Kitchen, 1100…
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Search for missing snowmobiler turns into recovery
“What was a search and rescue operation has moved into a recovery mission,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. On Tuesday, a multi-agency search was initiated for Wallace,…
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Local Briefs
Stillwater Music will hold its annual Winter Wonder Bands concert and silent auction from noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the River Bend Ranch, two miles north of Durango at…
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Durango’s Olde Tymer’s Cafe no longer ‘cheating tourists and drunks’
Restaurant drops slogan amid backlash
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Snowfall expected in San Juan Mountains, uncertain for Durango
Durango’s precipitation forecast uncertain through weekend
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Colorado business leaders propose transportation funding fix
Business leaders pitch $3.5 billion for transportation
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Some La Plata County government services moving to new location in Durango
Building, planning departments will be relocating
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When it comes to Christmas trees, is real or fake the better environmental choice?
Studies show minimal difference in environmental impact, but debate rages on
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Dogs doing time while owner committing the crime in Durango
Nothing is cuter than a pair of pups, but the owner of these two, left in the 800 block of Main Avenue on Thursday, may be in violation of Durango…
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“Festival of Trees,” Community Connections’ holiday event, will take place from 1 to 6 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Train Museum, 479…
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Dayplanner Friday
Durango Early Bird Toastmasters meeting, 7-8:30 a.m., Holiday Inn, 21636 U.S. Highway 160 West, September-May, 749-1741, [email protected], www.earlybirdtoastmasters.org. Community Health Action Coalition meeting, 8-9:30 a.m., Eolus Room, Durango Community Recreation…
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Lake Nighthorse water-rights settlement pushed to Jan. 15
Chief District Judge Gregory Lyman’s ruling on a water-rights settlement agreed to last month in a long battle over water rights tied to the Animas-La Plata Project was continued to…
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Bernie Sanders launches Colorado presidential campaign effort
First office will open in Denver next week ahead of March 1 caucus
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Mesa Verde lights Cliff Palace
Luminarias glow in Cliff Palace on Wednesday night for photographers at Mesa Verde National Park. The last time Cliff Palace was lighted was in 2006.Sam Green/The Journal Both events are…
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President Barack Obama signs education bill to replace No Child Left Behind
Elementary and Secondary Eduction Act to give states louder voice
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Fort Lewis College bids adieu to Columbus Day
Denisa Carlos, left and Daniel French with the band Las Cafeteras performs in front of Reed Library as part of the Real History of the Americas series of workshops and…
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Wildlife crossing planned to run under U.S. Highway 160, east of Durango
CDOT working on 1 of 24 proposed underpasses
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Durango City Council seeks to ease housing shortage
Condos, ADUs, new regs all part of housing puzzle
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The Blotter
Tuesday 8:12 a.m. Items were stolen from a car in the 3000 block of East Fifth Avenue. A second vehicle was burglarized in the 3100 block of East Sixth Avenue.…
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Project Merry Christmas needs your help
Lots of children and seniors won’t have their holiday wishes granted if La Plata County residents don’t support Project Merry Christmas. The angel and bell trees still have a significant…
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Purgatory to hold first Locals Benefit Day of season on Sunday
Skiers hope to be enjoying runs like this on Sunday, which is Purgatory Resort’s first of four Benefit Days this ski season. The beneficiaries this year are Trails 2000, La…
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La Plata County to take stance on Superfund
Nonbinding resolution supports Silverton, San Juan County decision
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Dayplanner Thursday
La Plata County Commissioner Julie Westendorff office hours, 10-11:30 a.m., Pine River Library Conference Room, 395 Bayfield Center Drive in Bayfield, 382-6219. Durango High Noon Rotary meeting, noon, DoubleTree Hotel,…