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Federal-lands bill dies

that measure would have led to closing public lands

Local Briefs

Thrive! Living Wage Coalition will meet on Tuesday at Fassbinder Park, located at W. 17 St. and Main Avenue. Meetings…

Local Briefs

The Durango Botanical Society, in partnership with Bear Smart Durango and AJ’s Greenhouse, will host a Garden Party Celebration from…

Dayplanner Tuesday

Free electric fencing for bears demonstration, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., CSU Extension Office, La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave., [email protected]…

Bus-service test begins in Vallecito

The Vallecito Service League and the La Plata County Senior Center will run a 13-passenger bus from Vallecito Church to…

Your Colo. tax refunds could disappear

Republicans say bill is subverting state constitution

Is Pagosa the ‘best’?

Outside Magazine competition begins

Setting it straight

H H H The Herald strives for accuracy. If a factual error or misleading information appears in our news stories,…

Local Briefs

Mancos Public Library, 211 West First St., will offer these programs: “Nepal: Before The Devastation” will be presented at 7…

Storm edging Durango

system rides this way

Open house planned for north Main Avenue

for bike, pedestrian changes welcomed from you

Surfing the San Juans

Anna Fischer, of Surf the San Juans, rides her stand-up paddleboard Saturday afternoon on Ponderosa Rapid at Santa Rita Park.Steve…

Rain-barrel measure could wash away in Colo.

‘Aw-shucks,’ says Sen. Sonnenberg

‘My peers were calling me baby-killer’

1st Lt. George Usinowicz: 1970-71 tour, platoon leader, 65th Engineer Combat Battalion, 25th Infantry Brigade, 4th Transportation Command

‘It leaves you, but it never leaves you’

Capt. Joseph Perino: Late 1969 to Jan. 1971 tour, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, 198th Brigade

‘Many, many people were happy it was over’

1st Lt. John Malarsie: 1968 to early 1969 tour, military intelligence

‘Shock and awfulness’

40 years after the fall of Saigon, La Plata County Vietnam War vets recall their service, experiences

‘You hated to abandon these people’

Warrant Officer Fred Riedinger: 1967-68 tour with the Coast Guard on the cutter Half Moon

‘Why?’ ‘Was this all in vain?’

1st Lt. Judy Dennis: 1965-66 tour, Army Nurse Corps 85th Evacuation Hospital

Flower power

Madison Beamer of Durango and friends add touches to a collaborative painting at the Dandelion Festival on Saturday in Rotary…

Durango to Silverton, hear the whistle blow

train of 2015 summer season left the station

DEVO swaps a different kind of whip

Legislative clock is ticking

3 days left in session, lawmakers hit crunch time

First masters of FLC

School’s 52nd graduate class also is unique