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75 years ago: “Voters in Durango apparently are turning out en masse to take part in the greatest election in…

November 5, 2015

Health Briefs

“Understanding Colorado’s Health Insurance Marketplace” will be presented by Kevin O’Connor, health coverage guide for San Juan Basin Health Department,…

November 4, 2015

Teens spend an average of 9 hours a day with media

Exactly half of the time teenagers spend with video involves watching a TV program at the time it originally airs.…

November 4, 2015

75 years ago: “Acusti-celotex, a sound-reducing material, is being installed in the second and third floor corridors of Smiley Junior…

November 4, 2015

“Jason Nichols, 11, and his sister Mary, 9, walk over the rocks that surrounded the cell in Bodo Canyon where…

November 3, 2015

New push for pint-sized medical devices to treat sick kids

Miyah Williams, 3, is happy with her new prosthesis, which was designed to fit her small body and eliminates the…

November 2, 2015

75 years ago: “Dick Martin of Hesperus topped the market at the horse sale when government buyers bought 15 horses…

November 2, 2015

75 years ago: “Ghosts, witches and goblins gathered at the home of Jean Adams to celebrate Halloween. A haunted tunnel,…

November 1, 2015

Travel

You can revel in Tucson’s revitalized downtown

“Downtown has gotten so much better,” said Gallego from behind the counter of his gift and craft shop, Tolteca Tlacuilo.…

Travel

Iceland’s warm embrace

A dramatic landscape, a ‘hidden world’ and quirky Icelandic wit

An aerial view of Durango, possibly during the 1960s, shows Highway 160’s bridge over the Animas River in the lower…

Local Briefs

Colorado Parks and Wildlife will give away kokanee salmon in Durango at 3 p.m. Nov. 6 , 13, 20 and…

75 years ago: “Buyers of cavalry horses for the U.S. Army will be in Durango. As previously announced, only horses…

October 30, 2015

75 years ago: “The first peacetime draft lottery in the history of the U.S. began in Washington, and the first…

October 29, 2015

Travel

At internment camp, shadows of forgotten history

7,000 Japanese-Americans forcibly relocated to eastern Colorado

Health Briefs

People who have prediabetes are invited to attend a free class by Sheena Carswell and Marge Morris from 9 to…

3 ways to help yourself feel safe in an insane world

Anxiety affects 40M Americans

A surprising link between indoor carbon dioxide levels, cognitive function

A new study reports that workers showed significantly lowered cognitive functioning after spending a day in a simulated office environment…

75 years ago: “Heaviest snowfall of the recent storm was reported on Wolf Creek, where 14 inches of snow fell.”…

75 years ago: “John Fleck of the C.O.D. Laundry is wearing a cast as big as a Russian boot to…

October 27, 2015

75 years ago: “Occupying a cell in the La Plata County Jail is Mary O’Brien, better known up and down…

October 26, 2015