Southwest Life
Paradox Valley salt injection well could shut down
Project prevents natural salt loading in Dolores and Colorado rivers
Southwest Lifestyle
Religion
How St. Ignatius just might help you keep that resolution
Ignatius of Loyoia. Vintage engraving. From Popular France, 1869.Adobe Stock Almost inevitably, in a few short weeks, many find they are unable to meet their goals of self-improvement, be it…
Southwest Life
Warming already baked in to exceed climate goals, study says
A A new study says the amount of global warming already baked into the air because of past carbon pollution is enough to blow past internationally agreed upon climate limits.…
Health
Fauci: U.S. could soon give 1 million vaccinations a day
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 22 at the National Institutes of…
Southwest Life
Colorado Produce Safety Alliance to host on-farm composting webinar
Participants will learn how compost production and the FMSA Produce Safety Rule intersect. To register, visit us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kIWNxhKBT6eue8FR-Gl8sQ. For more information, visit www.coproducesafety.org.
Community
Pine River Library joins virtual book club for ‘The Secret Knowledge of Water’
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the book club is one part of a new effort called “We are Water,” a project that partners with rural libraries in the Four…
Community
Pine River Library announces new Storywalk
A storywalk is a picture book that is presented page by page in an outdoor space. The first story featured in the storywalk is “The Snowy Nap” by Jan Brett.…
Community
Pine River Library expands curbside service
The library will offer curbside service from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. In addition to half an hour desktop computer…
Community
Marvel United Methodist Church cancels groundhog supper
Donations for the outreach fund may be sent to P.O. Box 122, Marvel, CO 81329.
Community
Durango Public Library announces January events
Ongoing programs: Weekly activity kits for children and teens every Tuesday through the end of the year (excluding holiday weeks). Kits include the necessary supplies for one child to complete…
Community
Pine River Library to host an introduction to bullet journaling virtual class
Bullet Journaling is a simple and customizable system that helps organize life, stick to goals and increase productivity. The library’s free “Program in a Bag” kit for January includes a…
Food
I was an air fryer skeptic, but now it’s the only thing that gets me excited about pandemic cooking
I had resisted buying an air fryer precisely because too many friends had gushed about them with obnoxious enthusiasm. I’d seen the same kind of technological evangelism among former PC…
Food
Why you’ll always find sweetened condensed milk in my kitchen
Thai iced tea is one of several simple creations that use sweetened condensed milk.Tom McCorkle/Washington Post The iced tea was especially crucial on long summer afternoons at home with my…
Travel
Lava spatters, flows inside crater of Hawaii volcano
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the lava is confined to the summit crater of Kilauea, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday. The eruption began Dec. 20 within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park…
Health
Explainer: Vaccine dosing debates add to public confusion
Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting, of Harpursville, N.Y., an injection in July of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.,…
Southwest Life
Hunting tags help bring back New Mexico’s bighorn sheep
Big money from hunters pays for conservation programs
Southwest Life
Endangered ferrets receive experimental COVID vaccine
Colorado researchers aim to protect endangered species
And the West is History
Photo: World War II Enlistment Ceremony – June 7, 1942
Exactly six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, marking the U.S. entrance into World War II, Naval induction ceremonies were held in more than 500 cities across the country…
Community
Lumien Apartments community grateful to community partners
We specifically want to thank Housing Solutions for the Southwest, Axis Health Systems, Manna soup kitchen, Southwest Center for Independence, La Plata Family Center, Colorado Division of Housing, Rainbow Housing…
Community
Community Connections grateful for community support
From the Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado CERF award to those who rounded up at Kroegers, the 60-plus sponsors and 250 participants to a highly successful first-ever virtual Festival of…
Food
The best food books of 2020 that will get you thinking, not cooking
These books sometimes argue with each other, too, which only heightens the pleasure of flipping from one volume to another. Dominique Crenn, the three-Michelin-star chef behind Atelier Crenn in San…
Southwest Life
Five environmental issues to watch in 2021
Drought, overuse of public lands, mine cleanup top list in Southwest Colorado
Food
Ska Brewing Co. releases dark version of a favorite beer
Brewery will alternate between Mexican Logger and Mexican Style Lager Dark
Food
These 10 food trends were the distractions we needed in 2020
Each of the everybody’s-making-it dishes that popped up this year spoke to our hungers – for sustenance, maybe, for comfort, for inspiration or just for novelty. Even if we didn’t…
Travel
Shackleton expedition artifacts to be donated to UK museums
A conservator surveys an 11-foot wooden sled used on Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition at Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre in London. A sled and flag once used…
Southwest Life
Looking back at 2020: The year in pictures
The pandemic and social protests gave us indelible images – but the year unfolded in other ways, too
Health
The autopsy, a fading practice, revealed secrets of COVID-19
When the virus first arrived in U.S. hospitals, doctors could only guess what was causing its strange constellation of symptoms: What could explain why patients were losing their sense of…
Food
Pandemic gives rise to Durango-based grazing board business
Alexis Saghie started Farm to Fingers after COVID-19 brought her home
Community
Durango Public Library reveals Best Books of 2020
The Best Books of 2020 list is available at www.durangogov.org/Library.
Food
Christmas dinner can be festive – and thrifty – with this $60 feast for four
I set myself the goal of figuring out a dinner for four that felt 100% holiday-worthy, but cost just three Andrew Jacksons. I hope you’ll agree there is nothing about…