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Photo: Bump-outs return to Main Avenue
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Photo: Bump-outs return to Main Avenue

April 4, 2024

Sean Simpson, with Fired Up Pizza, serves Beth and Mason Wells on Thursday in the newly constructed bump-out on Main Avenue in downtown Durango. Several bump-outs have appeared this past…

Photos: Training tower tear down
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Photos: Training tower tear down

March 26, 2024

FCI Constructors oversaw the demolition of the old Durango Fire Department training tower Tuesday at Station No. 2, at 1235 Camino del Rio in central Durango, where the Durango Fire…

Photo: Cleaning up stormwater
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Photo: Cleaning up stormwater

March 23, 2024

F&M Construction works on a new stormwater sediment detention basin Friday next to 32nd Street in Durango. Stormwater drainage will travel through a series of concrete features settling out silt…

Photos: Filling in winter’s wrath
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Photos: Filling in winter’s wrath

March 21, 2024

Brice Simpson, with the city of Durango, spreads hot asphalt Thursday at Santa Rita Park using the city’s new asphalt recycling machine. Used asphalt from the city’s asphalt pile is…

Photo: Lighting up the lab
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Photo: Lighting up the lab

March 19, 2024

Nico Rodriguez, with Eagle Electric, puts up new sign lighting Tuesday at the SOIL Outdoor Learning Lab next to Riverview Elementary School. With warmer temperatures, construction will resume on different…

Photos: Unsettled weather rolls into region
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Photos: Unsettled weather rolls into region

March 7, 2024

An unsettled weather pattern is moving through Durango beginning Thursday and rolling into the weekend. Chris Sanders, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said to expect…

Photos: Whatever it takes to get out the vote
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Photos: Whatever it takes to get out the vote

March 5, 2024

Fort Lewis College student Samual Hart throws a whipped creamed pie at Jade Pruett, a member of the FLC Political Engagement Project, on Tuesday. The group was outside the library…

Photo: And the winners are …
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Photo: And the winners are …

February 29, 2024

Colleen Clausen, owner of April’s Garden, completes a floral arrangement Thursday before the annual Durango Rocks awards ceremony, which is put on by the Durango Chamber of Commerce. The floral…

Photos: Sure sign of impending spring
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Photos: Sure sign of impending spring

February 26, 2024

A street sweeper began cleaning up area roads this week in Durango, a sure sign of an impending spring. Senior Operator Mike Nutt, who is behind the wheel, drove up…

Photo: Ice rescue training
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Photo: Ice rescue training

February 24, 2024

Nate Baier, right, fire captain with Durango Fire Protection District, helps Zach Bertrand, a firefighter/EMT, during an ice rescue training exercise Monday at Turner Lake, near the entrance to Falls…

Photo: Adding color to the world
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Photo: Adding color to the world

February 23, 2024

Ronald Matson draws chalk art on the sidewalk near 11th Street and Main Avenue on Thursday. Matson has being leaving his chalk art on Durango sidewalks for more than a…

Photo: Wish Week
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Photo: Wish Week

February 17, 2024

Durango High School students raise money for Wish Kids