Columnists

Where pioneers are buried: La Plata County’s historic cemeteries

“They got as far as that hill. In that deep, wheel-sucking mud, the horses wore out and could go no…

June 10, 2015

Choose pollinator plants, and they will help you

Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds are wonderful pollinators that provide benefit to our landscape. National Pollinator Week, June 15-21, is a…

June 10, 2015

What's up in Durango Skies

Don’t forget to look up at our nightly sky

Thanks for reading my first Thursday column. Although the nights are very short as we approach the summer solstice, there…

June 10, 2015

Neighbors

Neither rain nor hail could halt these grills

Buckley Park was hopping, and grills were sizzling as the hardy folks in our town came together for Men Who…

June 9, 2015

A Take on Tourism

A look at the summer tourism forecast

The owner of a local recreational-vehicles business just told me he just enjoyed his last Sunday off until October, and…

June 9, 2015

Neighbors

Erickson showed how teachers make a difference

Courtesy of Joe Erickson<br><br>Mary Ann Erickson, second from right, knows she touched lives as a teacher, because these former students…

June 9, 2015

Action Line

Support is flagging for downtown’s ‘Stars and Stripes’ parade

Durango’s upcoming “Stars and Stripes Parade” for Fourth of July weekend is lacking entrants. So, Action Line tweaked an idea…

June 7, 2015

The Travel Troubleshooter

Reservations about your hotel reservations

Christina Daves knows. On several occasions, she’s shopped for a hotel room online and then clicked through to make a…

June 6, 2015

From our Congressman

1941 was Durango’s last summer of peace

It would be the last peacetime summer for them. But, even then, young men were being drafted and sent off…

June 6, 2015

From our Congressman

Standardized Testing: Too much time?

Standardized testing is highly time consuming. I know this firsthand, as I am a local eighth grade student. In the…

June 6, 2015

Flies & Lies

Fly-fishing the small streams: Best of the best

With that said, small stream fly fishing is still a little ways off. This spring has been the craziest I…

June 4, 2015

Downtown Lowdown

Rebecca Frazier to front Hit and Run in Pagosa

Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent and Alison Brown all have led successful bands and forged successful careers from straight-up traditional to…

June 4, 2015

Clubhouse Porch

Staying hydrated for a busy month

Some of us do not have the luxury of getting an early tee time or a late twilight time when…

June 4, 2015

From the Extension Office

Our topsy-turvy spring yields to summer’s rituals

Sometimes they get a little screwy. Enough that there’s this uneasiness inside me, as I seem to write about their…

June 3, 2015

Authentic Aging

Don’t let fears diminish strengths of aging brain

There are so many focuses: memory with dementia and Alzheimer’s, emotional and physical changes, agility, learning, etc., and all of…

June 3, 2015

Coroner's Report

Alcohol steals the potential of so many

Dressed in their Sunday best and formally arranged in two rows, my paternal grandmother, Clara; her parents; three brothers; and…

June 3, 2015

What's Up Downtown

Summer tourism stats shining brightly

Sales tax is collected monthly from every business in Durango by the city. The city releases reports on collections that,…

June 2, 2015

Columnists

Baby on Sunday, appendectomy on Monday

Amy Barrett and her husband, Kermitt, welcomed a new son May 10, just six days earlier. (He attended the event…

June 2, 2015

Action Line

Durango’s an accepting place, except for grass in park

Marilyn and James Lewis walk along a more than three-block-long section of orange safety fending running alongside of the Animas…

May 31, 2015

John Peel

Taking a look backward, or maybe it’s forward …

Darrah Blackwater gets her fortune told just as her walk across China hit 2,000 kilometers. If all goes well, the…

May 31, 2015

The Travel Troubleshooter

Dumped by your travel company: What to do?

He’d booked a house in Orlando through VRBO.com, a vacation rental website. But a few weeks before the family was…

May 30, 2015

On Real Estate

Stable supply of water coming to the county’s Dry Side

As we all know, water is one of the most critical resources, and the water authority will offer an opportunity…

May 30, 2015

From our Congressman

Public Lands

The taxpayer money that fuels demands that federal be transferred to the states

May 30, 2015

Policy and Politics

Structure hampered task force results

If he is, it is not because the conundrum of local and state regulation of the activity has been solved…

May 30, 2015