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DATO names sales, marketing manager

Andrea Seid, who has a decade of marketing and sales experience with the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, intends…

Accident victim in critical condition

Christopher Ellis, 31, driving a 2008 GMC pickup westbound on Highway 160, made a left turn in front of an…

It’s Steampunk ahead!

2015 Snowdown kick-off happens this Friday

Senior Center lunch menus

Friday, Sept. 5 – Salad bar, BBQ brisket, cheesy potatoes, broccoli peanut salad, wheat roll, cantaloupe. Wednesday, Sept. 10 –…

Alex G. Velasquez

Mr. Velasquez was born March 8, 1948 in Ignacio, the son of Augustine and Felicita Velasquez. Alex was an avid…

BHS makes up for last year’s defeat

Rally roars in for Labor Day

Southern Ute singers and drummers, background, performed a blessing Friday at the start of the Four Corners Motorcycle Rally. Organizers…

Nice hog

Kori Jenkins of Bayfield auctioned her hog at the Colorado State Fair Junior Livestock Sale on Aug. 26. Her hog…

Rally rumbles to close

Gertrude Dorothy Myrtle Stuerzebecher Siems

SIEMS Gertrude was born on Sept. 18, 1924 in Roselle, Ill. to George and Erna Stuerzebecher and married Elmer Siems…

Mike Gallegos

GALLEGOS He was born on May 26, 1931 in La Boca to Agapita Lucero and Frank Gallegos. Mike was a…

Calendar of Events

Readers’ Choice Awards announcement party for Durango Herald and Pine River Times, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Irish Embassy in Durango.…

Bayfield principals address test results at school board meeting

BMS Principal Karen Lunceford shows data on student achievement to the Bayfield School Board on Aug. 26. The results were…

Southern Ute Fair coming

concerts, fireworks to honor past chairman

Weminuche grazing moving to EIS process

The Columbine Ranger District is expanding this from a shorter Environmental Analysis (EA) process because of the level of interest.…

State Water Plan draws crowd

fear federal water grabs

Colorado trust grants $25,000 to area charities

Center, Shining Mountain, TARA receive funding

Predicting the weather from afar

in Grand Junction provides forecasts for large area of Colorado

LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS

The Pine River Valley Heritage Society will host its annual Heritage Days kickoff dinner and show on Friday, Sept. 26…

Animas Forks back on the map

Restoration efforts save ghost town northeast of Silverton

An artist in wolf’s clothing

Ryan Lange of Wolfwood Refuge, costumed, was on Main Avenue on Thursday afternoon drawing attention to the organization’s third annual…

Dayplanner Friday

Jeff Solon Jazz Trio, 5-9 p.m., Animas River Cafe at DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, 259-6580. Lacey Back ragtime…

Blotter

Thursday 1:05 a.m. An 18-year-old man, conscious and breathing, was found in the 500 block of east First Street. 1:48…

Tipton calls on Obama to fight ISIS

Congressman decries ‘overreach’ by feds