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Navajo Trail Open will turn 51 at Hillcrest Golf Club

The 51st annual event at Hillcrest Golf Club is the crown jewel of Durango tournaments, as it brings together not…

Who can ask for anything more?

Angie Beach, executive director of Music in the Mountains, enjoys a moment of respite at “9 and Dine,” a fundraiser…

New York City’s Met Museum sets a high bar for protest art

Pakistani artist and teacher Imran Qureshi works on his 8,000-square foot untitled painting in May on the rooftop of the…

Sometimes there’s no substitute for an autopsy

Hospitals rarely do autopsies. Decades ago, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Institutions lifted the requirement that hospitals…

Animas High School senior presentations did not disappoint

I wanted to see what they were studying, how they presented themselves and where they were headed in the next…

States’ governors aim to help employ those with disabilities

For good or ill, in western society, what we do for work helps define our identities for others. In fact,…

Determining Bodo’s status is no walk in the park

The sign at Bodo Drive clearly shows the site is supposed to be ranches and not a ‘park’ as most…

Saying goodbye to Silt

A rural town transforms as the West evolves

Digging for clues to fortune inside Fenn’s memoir, poem

Picture this: 20 troy pounds of gold coins and placer nuggets as big as a man’s fist. A single bracelet…

Good processes do not always produce results

The River Protection Workgroup process began in 2006 to consider management strategies for six rivers and streams on the San…

Limited liability companies can guard personal wealth

du1-i-syn We try to explain to them that forming a business entity (be it a corporation, LLC, limited partnership, limited…

Reaching a hand out to our poorest neighbors

Keely Costello, the daughter of Rob and Lisa Costello of Ignacio, made some new friends during her recent mission trip…

Senate Bill 252

Gov. Hickenlooper makes right move in signing imperfect measure

Big Apple produces big country sound

Pigeonholing country music to meccas such as Nashville and Texas is a disservice, especially when cities like Brooklyn are embracing…

The Bahamas: Mean flies, sharks, lots of bonefish

The rooms are small, clean and single occupancy. That way, no one has to listen to a roommate snore loud…

Columnist Philip Wenz confronts the Keystone pipeline.

Summer will bloom with garden events

Interestingly enough, that also leaves 202 days until Christmas. So rationally, I only have a few days left to decide…

Our public lands more than just a gas, oil reservoir

The mission of the BLM is: “To sustain the health, diversity and productivity of America’s public lands for the use…

Friends, relatives spice Durango’s tourism recipe

This sub-segment of tourism brings revenue into our economy and takes photos, souvenirs and memories back home to their jealous…

Lots of ‘Pomp’ at graduation

So I really get how much courage, perseverance and support it takes to improve one’s life by earning a GED…

Start swinging: Our golf season is going quickly

It just seems I was getting things cranked up for the golf season, and the first 64 days of bona…

Contentious session made for difficult work in Denver

Procedural tactics more like those that notoriously happen in Washington, D.C., were especially troublesome and divisive. For the sake of…

Looking at Mexico beyond the stereotypes and politics

I was attending a meeting of the Inter-American Press Association in Puebla, about two hours east of Mexico City. It’s…

Cervical cancer screening – how often is it needed?

I can understand the confusion. Since I was in medical school, there have been several revisions to the recommendations based…