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Ska Fabricating: Filling a niche for craft brewers

Manufacturers make depalletizers – machines that automatically stack cases of goods or products onto a pallet – for large brewers…

Ruff Puppies: A classier brand of collars and leads

He thought he might make belts or bracelets. It was only after he made a collar for his own dog…

Alpacka Raft: Building a better boat

“I didn’t know whether I would sell five or 200,” said Sheri Tingey, the owner of Alpacka Raft, a locally…

Venture Snowboards: A vintage backcountry board

Courtesy of Justin Cash/Buttery Agency<br><br>What starts as a pile of lumber in the parking lot is carefully crafted into vintage…

Made in the Four Corners

manufacturers in small towns find big niches

Local Briefs

The residents and staff of Sunshine Gardens 32nd Street Assisted Living invite the community to their second annual Holiday Open…

Car collides with semi on U.S. Highway 160

injuries were reported in the accident east of Bayfield

Dayplanner Saturday

St. Columba Bazaar, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Columba School and Parish Center, 1801 East Third Ave. Arts and Crafts Bazaar,…

Durango man guilty of child sex assault

Sentencing scheduled for March 6

The Blotter

Thursday 12:49 p.m. An intoxicated man was in a Walmart bathroom for more than an hour, 1155 South Camino del…

Local Briefs

Some of Durango’s healers, coaches and practitioners will present these free classes at Inhabit, in the Riverside Professional Building, 1970…

Road access plan nears its end

comments still being accepted

FLC shows economic influence

$151M impact amounts to 5% of county’s GDP

Longtime FLC trustee says goodbye to board

Decker Decker served two years for a trustee who left and then was appointed twice to four-year terms by the…

Fort Lewis College faculty pitches shared governance

Trustees had reservations about both issues but said they’re willing to listen and asked for detailed proposals from Justin McBrayer,…

Local-hops ale available for taste test

Hops are examined at Carver Brewing Co.SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald file photo The ales, $12 for a sample of each of…

Santa Paws is coming to town

Chris Nelson, director of the La Plata County Humane Society, poses for a picture holding Juliet Whitfield’s Jack Russell terriers…

Report says state loses out on wasted gas

A report from Taxpayers for Common Sense estimates that Colorado has lost millions in royalties because of the production practice…

Iron Horse rolls out

Wolf Creek Pass reopened

Wolf Creek Pass was closed Friday morning while the Colorado Department of Transportation conducted avalanche control work.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald file…

Warming up for Noel Night

DHS student program for needy

Starting Wednesday and through Saturday, food, books, toys and toiletry items may be left at the school. The beneficiaries of…

Residents escape early morning house fire in Bayfield

Upper Pine was paged at around 2:34 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 1 for a fire at 22 S. Los Pinos…

Bayfield trustees approve $10.4 million budget for 2015

The $10.4 million total appropriated for 2015 includes an assortment of transfers between funds, meaning those amounts are counted twice…