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Dayplanner Sunday

Thrive! Living Wage Coalition and Food Not Bombs will hold a Pre-Labor Day Potluck Picnic, 2-6 p.m., Santa Rita Park…

Brew ’em if you got ’em

than 2,300 gather for San Juan Brewfest fundraiser

Local Briefs

Wolfwood Refuge will have an ambassador wolf from the refuge during Durango’s Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday…

Dâ€™oh!

Matt Thorpe, left, and Stephanie Schuler of Colorado Parks and Wildlife douse a fawn with water in order to free…

Source of Gold King Mine water a mystery

Plata County commissioners get tour of site

College journey begins

American students receive orientation at FLC

At Convocation, a ‘charge’ to incoming FLC students

Assistant professor for percussion John O’Neal performs at the Fall Convocation on Friday at the Whalen Gymnasium at Fort Lewis…

Dayplanner Saturday

Creature Comforts celebrates its 31st anniversary with a free event, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., 305 South Camino del Rio, 247-2748. Victorian…

Raising school spirit? Not according to 9-R

This screenshot shows the home page of the new website www.durangodemons.com, a commercial website that promises to document the doings…

Monumental ambitions

The Keen Live Monumental Tour stopped Friday at Ska Brewing Co. during its two-month-long tour to collect 100,000 petition signatures…

The Blotter

Thursday 9:47 a.m. Someone vomited on the sidewalk in the 900 block of Main Avenue. 2:06 p.m. A dog was…

Sheriff apologizes for deputies’ remarks

condemns crude comments about Herald reporter

Local Briefs

The Whole Expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 12 and from 10 a.m. to 5…

Colorado considered a model for stopping natural-gas waste

Michael Surrusco, senior policy analyst with Taxpayers for Common Sense, said that since 2006, Americans have lost more than $380…

‘Stigma’ from Gold King Mine spill into the Animas River could linger

Businesses may be able to recoup losses

Event to raise money for toddler with heart transplant

Heartfest to help family with medical care

Cortez vets battle over parade route

the end, small group will get an escort down Main Street

Purgatory’s slow-moving Chair 8 is being replaced in favor of high-speed lift

$5 million spent this year on Purgatory upgrades

Property-tax hike gets backing

finance committee recommends mill-levy hike; commissioners weigh options

The Blotter

Wednesday 10:53 a.m. A group of juveniles was smoking marijuana in Rank Park, 149 E. 22nd Street. 10:59 p.m. A…

Outdoors pot growing banned in Cortez

Ordinance clarifies rule, bans marijuana cultivation for personal use

Relief-fund donations slow for Gold King Mine spill victims

34 people who lost income after spill receive help

Monsoon mop-up

Brent Gleeson and a dozen or so other workers with the city were busy Thursday afternoon clearing debris after a…