Southwest Life

Community

Durango/La Plata Senior Center changes lunch price

Lunch prices for other ages remain the same: $4 suggested donation for seniors older than 60 and $5 for children…

July 13, 2018

Community

Southern Ute Montessori opens application session

The Head Start program is for children 3 to 5 years old, and the Early Head Start program is for…

July 13, 2018

Community

Chuck wagon cook-off to be July 28

This year’s competition includes five wagons that will serve plates of beef, potatoes, beans, fresh bread, dessert and a beverage.…

July 13, 2018

Community

Ballroom dance classes returning to Durango/La Plata Senior Center

Dance classes will focus on swing and the cha-cha. Registration for the series costs $25 and is due by the…

July 13, 2018

And the West is History

The cornerstone was laid for the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, No. 507, in 1925 at Ninth Street…

July 13, 2018

Travel

Tracing Nelson Mandela’s footsteps 100 years after his birth

Visitors can follow in Mandela’s footsteps from the villages where he was born and raised, to the Soweto township where…

July 13, 2018

Health

As singles grow older, the prospect of declining health can provoke fears

An elderly couple walks down a hall in Easton, Pa. More elderly Americans are aging without a partner.Associated Press file…

July 13, 2018

Health

Late-life high blood pressure may harm the brain, study says

A closeup of a human brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease on display at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University…

July 11, 2018

Travel

Show tells backstory of icons like Rushmore, Lady Liberty

You’ll hear the inside story on these icons and others from Geoffrey Baer, host of the PBS television series “10…

July 11, 2018

Health

What do doctors know about food? Not very much

Experts say that while most physicians may recognize that diet is influential in health, they don’t learn enough about nutrition…

July 9, 2018

Travel

Feminists, animal rights groups reshape Pamplona bull fest

It’s not a full-blown identity crisis yet, but the festival in northern Spain popularized by American novelist Ernest Hemingway and…

July 9, 2018

And the West is History

Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver…

July 8, 2018

Travel

In Idaho, Plan B turns into a rewarding journey

My husband and I came up with the spur-of-the-moment itinerary on a road-trip out west last September. We’d planned on…

July 8, 2018

Health

U.S. hospitals grapple with prolonged injected opioid shortage

A pharmacy technician prepares syringes containing fentanyl in the sterile medicines area of the inpatient pharmacy at the University of…

July 8, 2018

And the West is History

Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver…

July 7, 2018

Health

Bird flu hot spot: Scientists track virus in huge migration

Ruddy turnstones, larger birds, and semipalmated sandpipers walk near the shoreline at Kimbles Beach, Middle Township, N.J. Each spring, shorebirds…

July 7, 2018

Community

High Noon Rotary to meet Thursday

du1-i-syn Vaughn Morris, CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County, will give a presentation. Community members…

July 7, 2018

Community

High Noon Rotary to meet Thursday

du1-i-syn Liz Anderson, ambassador for Shelterbox, will give a presentation.. ShelterBox provides tent housing and supplies for areas in crisis…

July 7, 2018

Travel

Surprising Montana: See glaciers before they vanish, discover Chinese history in Butte

Wrong on all counts. The Going-to-the-Sun Road is fully open as of early July but when my husband and I…

July 7, 2018

Community

North Animas Village to hold second presentation

The neighborhood will provide a support system to help seniors retain independence in their homes and remain active in the…

July 7, 2018

Travel

Europe’s sunny weather makes for wet summer in Iceland

People walk on Nautholsvik, an artificial beach in temperatures of 50 Fahrenheit in Reykjavik, Iceland. The people of Reykjavik do…

July 6, 2018

Health

FDA OKs first drug made to reduce excessive sweating

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Qbrexza, the first drug developed to reduce excessive sweating, a common condition that…

July 6, 2018

And the West is History

Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver…

July 6, 2018

And the West is History

Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver…

July 5, 2018