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Forest Service to discuss spruce beetles at Vallecito

Tom Eager, U.S Forest Service insect and disease expert, will explain the biology of the beetle, how it spreads, and…

Bayfield Heritage Day planning starts

The event, which started in 2000, features the trailing of around 2,000 sheep through town on the Buck Highway (CR…

news in brief

Support Our Streets, a group supporting a one-cent sales tax increase in Bayfield, is looking for volunteers to march in…

Retired teacher now promotes mindfulness

JoAnne Hibbard is teaching mindfulness camps for children this summer.Courtesy photo “I’m a good multi-tasker, but each thing is kind…

5 honored as adult role models

nominate adults for annual honors

Retired teacher celebrating 100th birthday

Ignacio School Board debates impacts of new school liability law

expulsion policy needs to change, board members say

Bayfield school board starting search for architects

issue could come in 2016

May 2015 births at Mercy REgional Medical Center

Cora Joy, Bayfield, Angela & Jeremiah Scott, 9lbs. 1oz, 11:01 p.m., May 5, 2015 Wyatt Charles, Bayfield, Melissa Johnson &…

New project to ease traffic flow at Navajo State Park

Construction crews will be working primarily Monday through Thursday to avoid busy weekends at the park, said Doug Secrist, park…

White takes 3rd at state games

Prepare to have some fun on July 4

July 2 and July 3!

education news

DURANGO – In a ceremony on Saturday, May 2, 2015, more than 400 Fort Lewis College graduates and their families…

Jammin’ in Bayberry

Durango teachers get pay raises

District’s 2015-16 budget will have $727,000 deficit

Tribe opens new Growth Fund building

Oil, gas, real estate divisions move into new headquarters

The Blotter

Wednesday 7:14 a.m. A man camped out in a park had his belongings locked to a picnic table at Bennett…

Rumored affair shakes GOP

won’t take case about party leader

Stabbing suspect’s bail set at $25,000

Prosecutors had asked for $100,000 bond

Local Briefs

The city of Durango has contracted Four Corners Materials to mill and repave these streets beginning Monday: Aquarius Place. Willow…

Work begins on Smith Sports Complex

Workers with Bonds Construction sift rocks from tons of soil Thursday afternoon at the Smith Sports Complex at Fort Lewis…

Dayplanner Friday

Outdoor Yoga, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., outdoor amphitheater outside the Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave., $5, 259-0385.…

Free parking!

Brent Gleeson, with the city of Durango Street Division, prepares mounts for a sign directing traffic toward free parking at…

River search changes to recovery of body

Operations to resume at 8 a.m. Friday