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Flag to fly at half-staff Monday

Move will honor Maj. Gen. John France

Dayplanner Monday

Sunrise Yoga adult classes, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County, 2750 Main Ave., $5, props provided, 259-0385. Arts and Entertainment Four Corners Arts…

Local Briefs

The Southwest Colorado Workforce Board will meet from 10:30 a.m. to noon Nov. 4 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in the Florida Room, 2500 Main Ave. Agenda items will…

Durango government TV expanding

Channel to be available to most La Plata County residents soon

Arts group: Durango lags in funding

Nonprofit says city not budgeting enough for arts

Memorial for four young Durango residents takes shape on Rim Trail

Herald Staff Writer A memorial for four young Durangoans who recently died in accidents started taking shape on the Rim Trail near Fort Lewis College this summer, with the help…

Fort Lewis College changes admission standards, because ‘we thought students would be better prepared,’ provost says

The board maintained its ACT standards of scores of 18 on English and 19 on math for high school graduates in 2021, although it eliminated science and social studies standards.…

Will Colorado students thrive in 21st century?

State lowers some 2021 graduation standards

Archaeological center in Cortez reorganizes, lays off six

Archaeological center will not cut programs

Dayplanner Sunday

Consuelo Luz will present lecture and music titled “The Sefirot and the Power of the Hebrew Letters,” 10 a.m.-noon, Congregation Har Shalom, 2537 County Road 203, chsdurango.org. Irish music jam…

Local Briefs

A celebration of the Animas River will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 1 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. The event will provide information…

Company says $10M offer to clean up mines north of Silverton still on the table

Letter deems lime treatment plant best option to address mine waste

Dayplanner Saturday

Durango Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-noon, First National Bank parking lot, www.durangofarmersmarket.com. Durango Nature Studies’ Nature Center open, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Durango Learning Center in Bondad, for directions visit www.durangonaturestudies.org. Southwest…

Durango, La Plata County home sales strong

Median price in city $434K, in county $356K

Founder of ‘Aquí en El Valle’ newspaper dies at 79 in Phoenix

LaVerta Valdez-Johnson covered Four Corners Hispanic community

Local Briefs

The Bayfield Marshal’s Office will offer Prescription Drug Take-Back Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Bayfield Marshal’s Office, 1199 Bayfield Parkway. The event aims to provide…

Durango transit faces money shortage

City’s bus system needs long-term funding

The Blotter

Friday 3:11 a.m. A man was sitting on someone’s porch at Rivergate Lofts, 555 Rivergate Lane. Thursday 2:24 p.m. A woman reported that a trolley bus almost hit her at…

Durango man arrested for pursuing 14-year-old girl

Zerik Martin works for Colo. Department of Corrections

Last days in low country

Western Slope water interests fear transmountain diversion

Conservation board director says plan does not prescribe policy

September DUI

The following are convictions made in September 2015 for driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent or higher or by prescription or illegal drugs. Unless otherwise…

Mountain Middle School to use solar power

Dustin Mosiman, who donated his time, pushes wire through electric pipe while working on the Mountain Middle School building in 2011. The school is aiming to become a net-zero school…

Colorado’s U.S. senators back public lands bill

Bennet, Gardner stress conservation’s importance for state’s future generations

Truck, tandem bicyclists collide in Durango

A man is comforted by his wife Friday near 20th Street and West Second Avenue after they were hit by a city of Durango garbage truck at the intersection. The…

Colorado attorney general sues to block carbon-pollution standard

Environmentalists accuse Coffman of political games

The Blotter

Wednesday 9:23 a.m. Two people were rolled up in blankets sleeping under the 15th Street bridge. 3:30 p.m. A couch was stolen from the Hillcrest Apartments, 1000 Goeglein Gulch Road.…

Campaign seeks funding for immigrants’ licenses

Advocates say self-funding program aids safety on the roads

Teeing off on new greens at Hillcrest Golf Club

Renovations are the first since 1979

The rainy-day rush

A woman races along College Drive on Thursday afternoon during a passing storm that dropped hail and rain. A winter weather advisory was issued for the high country. The National…