Southwest Lifestyle

Health Briefs

Southwestern Colorado Area Health Education Center recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Many members from the region’s health-care community, program staff…

The scientific reason your world brightens up when you do

Indeed, how we feel about the world can play a huge role in how we see it, according to a…

Half of U.S. adults have diabetes or pre-diabetes

Overall, 12 percent to 14 percent of adults had diagnosed diabetes in 2012, the latest data available. Almost 40 percent…

75 years ago: “School opened at Cascade this morning with Miss Margaret Jones of Telluride as teacher.” 50 years ago:…

Which state is ‘cheesiest’?

Maine’s industry is nation’s fastest-growing

For fresh tomato sauce, less sometimes is more

In this recipe for fresh tomato sauce, you can cook the tomatoes for as little or as long as you…

What steak needs is a salad

This warm Caesar salad recipe is a template for topping almost any kind of sauteed steaks or chops.Matthew Mead/Associated Press…

On the side

In preparation for the stiff competition at the upcoming Great American Beer Festival to be held later this month in…

Dining among the dwellings

Verde’s Metate Room is worth the trip

Cortez bakery’s coffee has nitro kick

brewer and roaster help Pie Maker get it right

This picture appeared in the Sept. 4, 1988, Herald. The caption read, “This B-17G World War II bomber, Texas Raiders,…

75 years ago: “Passers-by the Elite Beauty Shoppe frequently stopped to admire in the window a bowl of yellow, double-petaled…

September 7, 2015

New medical coding system aims to help track quality of care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’s website is counting down to Oct. 1 when doctor’s offices across the country…

September 7, 2015

75 years ago: “A treasure hunt, one carried out on an island, with maps to decipher and plenty of buried…

September 6, 2015

Travel

National parks see dramatic rise in visitors

Service sees dramatic increase in visitors

Travel

World’s worst airline? Perhaps quirkiest

Korean carrier ranks last among 180

75 years ago: “Through the efforts of local officers, Durango again has been signally honored with the awarding of a…

How are you parenting wrong?

HELICOPTER PARENTING: You hover frantically over your child at all times, shredding pigeons in your rotating blades. FREE-RANGE PARENTING: Your…

On the viral rise of divorce selfies (and the death of traditional marriage)

Then, on their way out, Chris and Shannon – no longer the Neumans – paused in front of a courthouse…

75 years ago: “The San Juan Basin’s three Labor Day celebrations – at Silverton, Bayfield and Dolores – attracted large…

Religion

Catholics who left church won’t return

examines attitudes about same-sex marriage, divorce, sin, more

Religion

Religion Briefs

The First United Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive, will begin a new sermon series focusing on the story of Moses…

Religion

Pope Francis says priests can absolve ‘sin of abortion’

Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press<br><br>During the Holy Year of Mercy, Pope Francis will allow all rank-and-file priests to grant absolution to women…

When I was single, smug married people drove me nuts. Then I became one.

“You’ll find someone,” I said. “I just know it.” She shot me a deadly look. “Do you know how many…

‘Everyone’s a winner’ and other lies

Upon further investigation, we discovered a kid’s triathlon was about to begin. But there was some time to kill before…

What he doesn’t know can hurt him

Q: I have a very happy, optimistic 9-year-old who is also the youngest. The downside to all that happiness and…

75 years ago: “Dean E.H. Bader of Fort Lewis College received a telegram from President Roy M. Green of Colorado…

September 3, 2015