Columnists

Getting your seeds started

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season.…

March 3, 2024

Sports

Fly fish, eat, sleep times six

cca It has been a while since I have had to use my passport to go fly fishing. My friend…

March 2, 2024

Creating Community

Helpful hints to get your onsite wastewater system up and running

Last month, Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his winter slumber and did not see his shadow, which means that an early…

March 1, 2024

Dear Abby

In-laws exclude spouses from family text chain

DEAR ABBY: I recently married and was excited to be part of my husband’s family. My own siblings and I…

March 1, 2024

Opinion

‘When can we respect dignity, wishes of aged, ill?’

McClellan Dr. Thomas J. Perille’s guest column on Feb. 23 in The Durango Herald, previously published in The Colorado Sun,…

March 1, 2024

Opinion

‘Long nights, in-depth debate, good legislation for Colorado’

Barbara McLachlan We are a third of the way through our time in the Legislature this year, and I anticipate…

March 1, 2024

Culture Gulch

Storm clouds and sun with Southwest Civic Winds

Last Sunday, the Southwest Civic Winds musically crashed storm clouds together and brought out the sun. So much energy went…

February 28, 2024

Downtown Lowdown

‘Mixed in Mancos’ bringing new energy

Erik Nordstrom is a champion of the regional music scene. He’s played scores of shows around the area as a…

February 28, 2024

Opinion

House Bill 1296 ‘a lot of power to put in hands of record keepers’

Trish Zorniodu1-i-syn There’s a new buzzword in Colorado politics: vexatious. If that word wasn’t on your 2024 bingo card, join…

February 28, 2024

Opinion

Rosa Parks ‘had all the time in the world to talk’

cca It was 2 p.m. on a recent Sunday in the western Colorado town of Paonia, population 1,500. Not an…

February 28, 2024

Opinion

Toxic beauty standards can be passed down

cca When my best friend and I lived together 13 years ago, our shared bathroom had a handful of products:…

February 25, 2024

Opinion

‘Disinformation, plain old lies take place of facts, data’

cca In any community, there always have been, and always will be, areas of conflict and disagreement. These disputes have…

February 25, 2024

Dear Abby

Relatives can’t stomach another visit

DEAR ABBY: We have grown children and a grandchild who live several states away. The problem is, we don’t enjoy…

February 24, 2024

From the Humane Society

Reducing the barriers to pet adoption

Over time, the adoption process for pets has become more and more complex. Lengthy and often arduous applications, home visits,…

February 23, 2024

Opinion

‘Pain a minor reason patients choose PAS’

cca Compassion for individuals confronting a terminal illness drove the efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide, or PAS (also known as…

February 23, 2024

Dear Abby

Medical condition leads to marriage’s breakup

DEAR ABBY: I suffered an injury that caused internal bleeding, which then gave me iron deficiency anemia. I was battling…

February 22, 2024

Downtown Lowdown

A.J. Lee and Blue Summit happy to play music

A.J. Lee’s foray into bluegrass music started with her mom and a pizza place. Her mom was a big fan…

February 21, 2024

Dear Abby

Man weighs revealing health status

DEAR ABBY: I am a gay man who came out late in life. I have three grown, married children and…

February 21, 2024

Sports

A love letter to the American West

Jenny Johnston/Western Chroniclescca From grandpas to outlaws, I come from a long line of colorful cowboys, lovers and fighters of…

February 18, 2024

Thinking Green

Solar planning and development underway

Rapid deployment of utility-scale solar projects is a critical piece to addressing climate change impacts associated with electricity generation. Utilities…

February 18, 2024

Dear Abby

Parents refuse to keep boy under control

DEAR ABBY: I host holiday meals for my out-of-town family. During the last one, my cousin’s 5-year-old son ran up…

February 17, 2024

Dear Abby

Efforts to connect are met by silence

DEAR ABBY: I am engaged to an amazing guy. We have been together a little more than two years. During…

February 17, 2024

Opinion

League of Women Voters ‘help voters wade through noise’

Meiningercca With a national election on the horizon, the fire hose of information has increased, flooding us through our computers,…

February 16, 2024

Downtown Lowdown

Surfrajettes bringing surf rock to Durango

Coastal regions aren’t the only places that can pump out surf bands. There’s great instrumental surf-rock bands everywhere, many coming…

February 14, 2024