Southwest Lifestyle
Food
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 want.Matthew Mead/Associated Press This is when fresh tomato sauce comes…
Food
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 Mostly, I’m taking my cues here from the Italians. In…
Food
On the side
In preparation for the stiff competition at the upcoming Great American Beer Festival to be held later this month in Denver, El Moro Spirits and Tavern is hosting a “GABF…
And the West is History
And the West is History
This picture appeared in the Sept. 4, 1988, Herald. The caption read, “This B-17G World War II bomber, Texas Raiders, will be on display this week at the Durango-La Plata…
And the West is History
And the West is History
75 years ago: “Passers-by the Elite Beauty Shoppe frequently stopped to admire in the window a bowl of yellow, double-petaled nasturtiums. To inquiries, Mrs. Sheets explained that they were grown…
Health
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 will begin using a new coding system to identify what…
And the West is History
And the West is History
75 years ago: “A treasure hunt, one carried out on an island, with maps to decipher and plenty of buried loot, and all the other attendant frills and thrills, was…
And the West is History
And the West is History
75 years ago: “Through the efforts of local officers, Durango again has been signally honored with the awarding of a police school of instruction. The three-day school will be held…
Family
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 children eat grass and roam at will so that their…
Family
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 sign. They snapped a selfie, both smiling. “Here’s Chris Neuman…
And the West is History
And the West is History
75 years ago: “The San Juan Basin’s three Labor Day celebrations – at Silverton, Bayfield and Dolores – attracted large crowds and were fine successes, according to all reports.” 50…
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 and the lessons his life teaches today: lessons on relationships,…
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 who have had abortions. The Year of Mercy will run…
Family
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 people have told me that?” I apologized immediately, embarrassed by…
Family
‘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 the race started, so the announcer took the opportunity to…
Family
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 optimism is that he seems to live in a bubble…
And the West is History
And the West is History
75 years ago: “Dean E.H. Bader of Fort Lewis College received a telegram from President Roy M. Green of Colorado State College at Fort Collins, giving Fort Lewis the ‘go…
Health
A bold move to save a man’s hand: Tucking it into his tummy
Pat Sullivan/Associated Press<br><br>Plastic surgeon Anthony Echo believes Frank Reyes will recover almost all use of his hand after doctors at Houston Methodist Hospital performed an operation to help save the…
Health
Health Briefs
In support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), Mercy Health Foundation invites the community to register for the 21st annual 5K Journey of Hope fun run/walk and the 10K…
Southwest Life
Garden tour to celebrate Durango’s historic Boulevard
tour to support preservation on East Third Avenue
Health
Obese at 50? Midlife weight may affect when Alzheimer’s hits
Researchers at the National Institutes report that being overweight or obese at age 50 may affect the age, years later, when Alzheimer’s strikes. Among those who eventually got sick, more…
And the West is History
And the West is History
75 years ago: “Miss Fern Anderson, Durango school art teacher, is in Ochsner Hospital with a broken back. A vertebrae was crushed when she was thrown by a horse she…
Health
Young at heart? Not most Americans, government report says
A patient has her blood pressure checked by registered nurse in Plainfield, Vt. Your heart might be older than you are, according to a CDC report, which takes a new…
Family
Fake ultrasounds, fake bellies and ‘Fake a Baby.com’ gets Michigan teen in non-fake trouble
But according to Fox2 News in Wyandotte, Michigan, nobody in that town thinks it’s funny that a teenage girl pretended for months that she was pregnant with triplets, no less,…