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Heart Safe to offer first-aid, CPR classes

Associated Press file Oct. 4, a basic first-aid class will be held at 3 p.m. and an adult CPR class…

September 30, 2017

Community

Community to show support for area veterans

‘Stand Down’ event serves hot meals all day for veterans

September 29, 2017

Community

Thank you Letters

Durango Friends of the Arts sends heartfelt thanks to Mary Husemoller for opening her beautiful home and sharing her time…

September 29, 2017

Community

Fort Lewis College Calendar

Saturday Skyfest with Travis Porter and Splyt, 7 p.m., Stadium parking lot, [email protected]. “PINTER X 2 performance,” 7:30 p.m., Mainstage…

September 29, 2017

Community

Senior Calendar

2424 Main Ave., 382-6445 Monday 2424 Main Ave., 382-6445 10:15 a.m. Watch Your Step exercise 12:30 p.m. Recreational bridge 12:45…

September 29, 2017

Community

Bridge scores

Sept. 22 Open Pairs First: L. Leonard, J. Wallace Second: D. and S. Halseth Third: J. Beatty, R. Houston Fourth:…

September 29, 2017

Community

Rotary Club to hear about Girls on the Run

du1-i-syn Sloan Gingg, Paige Hickman and Francesca Shaw will speak to the club about the Durango chapter of Girls on…

September 29, 2017

Health

Being empathetic is good, but it can hurt your health

Associated Press file Empathy – the ability to tune into and share another person’s emotion from their perspective – plays…

September 29, 2017

Travel

Climber: Rock fall strikes Yosemite for a second day

It was not immediately clear if there were new casualties, a day after another slab dropped from El Capitan, killing…

September 29, 2017

Health

Babies try harder when they see you sweat, research shows

This combination of undated images taken from video provided by Julia Anne Leonard shows a “handoff” of a baby handing…

September 28, 2017

Travel

Smithsonian’s black history museum popular destination in D.C.

Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, talks about the museum’s first year…

September 28, 2017

And the West is History

75 years ago: The Office of Price Administration froze all stocks of six types of men’s rubber boots and rubber…

September 27, 2017

Health

Substance abuse prevention sessions will be held Oct. 2

Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file Two sessions will be offered Monday, Oct. 2, in Durango: An expert focus group for substance…

September 27, 2017

And the West is History

75 years ago: A “big” deposit of high-grade vanadium ore was discovered, and “extensively explored,” on Lightner Creek, 12 miles…

September 27, 2017

Travel

New Orleans museum to display oldest photographs of U.S. landscapes

Photographs of vast, unspoiled Western vistas are well known, many of them from federal land surveys after the Civil War.…

September 27, 2017

Health

Wanted: 1 million people to study genes, habits and health

Kenneth Parker Ulrich, left, a research technician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, prepares to collect a blood sample…

September 27, 2017

And the West is History

100 years ago: A caution to those who planned to attend “the Fair” said, “Those attending the Fair should be…

September 26, 2017

Travel

Airbnb launches local tours in NYC with Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker attends the Broadway opening night of “Hamilton” in New York. Parker of “Sex and the City” fame…

September 26, 2017

Health

Buyer beware: Long-term care costs are surging

A son, at right, holds his mother’s hand as they talk at her nursing home in Adrian, Mich. Long-term care…

September 26, 2017

Health

What it’s like to survive a lightning strike

The Journal filedu1-i-syn From afar, the fiery lightning strike that came with it looked like an explosion, darting down a…

September 25, 2017

Travel

Exhibit allows virtual ‘interviews’ with Holocaust survivors

Technology is allowing people to ask these questions and many more in virtual interviews with actual Holocaust survivors, preparing for…

September 25, 2017

Health

Durango Public Library to host heart-health talk

Attendees will learn about heart attack and stroke symptoms, CPR and AED techniques and Heimlich maneuver applications. Proceeds go to…

September 25, 2017

Travel

Idaho hopes to bring stargazers to first U.S. dark sky reserve

Designation would be first in the U.S.

September 24, 2017

Health

Free thyroid assessments offered to public

Utter The thyroid gland, known as the “master gland of metabolism,” controls the ability to make energy. Poor thyroid function…

September 24, 2017