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Year-round DST ‘failed experiment’

Permanent, year-round daylight saving time is a tried – and failed – experiment. In December 1973, Nixon signed the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act to begin this two-year experi...

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 CATEGORY: Opinion

The Adult Education Center is offering two new classes in April

The Durango Adult Education Center, 701 Camino Del Rio, is offering two new community education classes: an intermediate Spanish book club class and a computer literacy class. The Spanish book club cl...

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 CATEGORY: Community

Program to cut Colorado River water use shuffles forward

A $125 million conservation program that pays farmers and ranchers to use less water is lurching forward this month in the face of fractured support and a hefty time crunch. The federally funded conse...

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 CATEGORY: Regional News

Police academy in Mancos unveils new virtual reality training simulator

MANCOS – Visualize a police officer responding to call of a man acting in a menacing manner in a nice tree-lined neighborhood with manicured lawns and boxy two-story homes. When Sgt. Angelo Martinez o...

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 CATEGORY: Local News

Our View: For the love of Southwest trees

Trees aren’t as nurtured as much as they once were. They’re even disappearing and inadvertently losing some popularity as we move away from that water-sucking monocrop, formerly called a lawn, toward ...

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 CATEGORY: Opinion

Editorial cartoon

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 CATEGORY: Opinion

Boebert should focus on water

Recently, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert criticized our nation for not having enough firearms. She mentioned that our fellow citizens owned 46% of privately owned guns in the world. She continued, “We nee...

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 CATEGORY: Opinion

Community Calendar: What’s happening in the Cortez area

CORTEZ Thursday, March 23 African slideshow, 4-6 p.m., Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St. Free. A slideshow and talk on trip to Africa and a safari. Saturday, March 25 Larry Don Suckla, 2-3:30 p.m...

DATE: Mar 21, 2023 CATEGORY: Community Calendar

Suspects caught on camera at Tween Lakes home burglary northeast of Durango

A Tween Lakes homeowner could use the public’s help in identifying three men who burglarized his home once – and in the case of at least one man – possibly twice in two weeks. The thieves made off wit...

DATE: Mar 21, 2023 CATEGORY: Local News

Suicide prevention and awareness bill signed into law in Colorado

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the Higher Education Crisis and Suicide Prevention bill into law March 17. HB 23-1007 requires schools of higher education to print the Colorado and National Crisi...

DATE: Mar 21, 2023 CATEGORY: Local News

Year-round DST ‘failed experiment’

The Adult Education Center is offering two new classes in April

Program to cut Colorado River water use shuffles forward

Police academy in Mancos unveils new virtual reality training simulator

Our View: For the love of Southwest trees

Editorial cartoon

Boebert should focus on water

Community Calendar: What’s happening in the Cortez area

Suspects caught on camera at Tween Lakes home burglary northeast of Durango

Suicide prevention and awareness bill signed into law in Colorado

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