Is cuffing season an urban legend, or is there a scientific basis for it, too? After all, humans don’t have a mating season; we have sex year-round. So what’s special…
Do you remember what it was like? There was the lovely new baby, of course. You fell hopelessly in love – or maybe you felt a little bewildered, and worried…
75 years ago: An advertisement read, “Fashionette features this week half-size dresses. They fit snug – they are youthful! Sizes 16½ to 50½. In all of Fall’s latest designs! If…
75 years ago: “Durango Reading Club convened, where an exceptionally interesting program on ‘France, Belgium and Holland’ was given by Mrs. Harold Harris. Historical backgrounds of the three countries were…
A Chechen bride dressed in national costume rests during a wedding ceremony in Grozny, Russia. Chechen weddings are traditionally paid for by the groom and attended by his family members.Musa…
I put down the beans. I knew the incident she was referring to, one that I thought was benign enough. But the way she said it, with such maturity and…
The end of our street opened into a vast wooded forest, defined by a thin dirt footpath that stretched into a world of exploration for us. Our friends and neighbors,…
How huge is the number? It could be about one in seven new mothers, said Aimee Danielson, director of the Women’s Mental Health Program in the department of psychiatry at…
A: When I first read this question, all I could think of is my mother’s stink-eye. My brother and I would be kicking each other under the table at a…
Kailey and Brian Schumacher proudly display pumpkins they grew over the summer and sold at their Hermosa home in this October 1989 photo.Durango Herald file photo 75 years ago: “La…
75 years ago: “Everything is set for a grand and glorious time in Durango the latter part of this week when the San Juan Basin Fair, Seed and Poultry Show…
Religious leaders can leave their followers in turmoil
Now Belen – Spanish for Bethlehem – is fighting to keep the Nativity scene on city property and officials may even sell the land to a private owner in order…
Congregation Har Shalom, 2537 County Road 203, will host a concert and lecture with musician Consuelo Luz. Her concert, “Singing the Tree of Life,” will take place at 7 p.m.…
Clinton Kelly, former co-host of TLC’s 10-season hit makeover show “What Not to Wear,” is on the case – this time with relationship expert Devyn Simone as his partner in…
A: But she doesn’t, does she? And if you actually didn’t want to wear the latest, I don’t know, Fu Manchu/soul-patch hybrid, would you really do it anyway? I don’t…
I quit online dating for a number of reasons. Chief among them was that I did not want to participate in platforms where users are given tools to discriminate based…
75 years ago: “A Durango man who sells insurance as a past time and operates a mine for a vocation, is passing out the cigars today. His dog presented him…
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found that antioxidants can work their magic on cancerous cells, as well as normal cells, turbo-charging the process by which they…
San Juan Regional Medical Center will offer free vaccinations at five different Four Corners locations. The “Fight the Flu” campaign will host clinics in October and November to ensure that…
75 years ago: “Sgt. J.W. Anderson, Durango Army recruiter, received authorization to accept one-year enlistments in the Army, to be stationed at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. These enlistments will apply…
San Juan National Forest deciding what recreational sites to save
The sauce for these baked eggs uses healthy fast foods you can keep in your pantry.Matthew Mead/Associated Press And this, my friends, is the perfect storm for making some regrettable…
Natural Grocers will offer a free sampling of gluten-free foods from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 20. Selections will include a variety of baked goods, side dishes and snack…
Jamba Dunn, CEO and founder of Rowdy Mermaid kombucha, pours one of his several kombucha varieties on tap at his tap room and brewing and bottling facility in Boulder. The…
“The tailings left at the base of Smelter Mountain have been cleared away, and grass now is growing on the slopes in this September 1990 picture. The State Department of…
In 1989, Tixier started conservation group
