Briefs - The Journal

The Valley Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center to Host Community Easter Egg Hunt

The Valley Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, the 110-bed skilled-nursing facility in Mancos, will host a community event featuring Easter events for children, their families, and facility ...

DATE: Mar 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

Free online course in the fundamentals of sales tax is available

Course is self-paced, lasts about an hour

DATE: Mar 27, 2024 | CATEGORY:

Fort Lewis College students receive $75K EPA Award

Students will test water samples from the Animas River and communicate the importance of water resource protection

DATE: Mar 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

Lone Cone Library shares ‘River Stories’

Norwood river runners Shiela and Craig Grother will be the featured guests at the Telluride Institute’s monthly Talking Gourds Stories & Poems series at the Lone Cone Library, 1455 Pinion St...

DATE: Mar 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

Realtor John Gillam obtains designation

John Gillam, a Realtor with EXIT Realty Home & Ranch in Durango and Farmington, has recently been awarded the Distinguished Real Estate Instructor designation. The DREI designation is awarde...

DATE: Mar 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Business

FLC Theatre presenting “Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812”

The Broadway hit adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s, ‘War and Peace’ will be first performed April 3

DATE: Mar 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

Engage Durango Forum to be held March 26

The city of Durango invites residents to provide feedback directly to the executive leaders during the “Engage Durango Forum” to be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. March 26 at Durango Public Librar...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

First public meeting for ‘Downtown’s Next Step Project’

The City will host the first public meeting for the preliminary engineering design of Downtown's Next Step Phase 1 on March 14, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., at the Fort Lewis College Center for Inno...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

‘Citizens Survey’ open through April

The Southwest Colorado Conservation and Outdoor Recreation Roundtable, is a new Colorado Outdoor Regional Partnerships Initiative for Archuleta, La Plata, San Juan and southern Hinsdale coun...

DATE: Mar 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

Colorado 2024-2025 fishing licenses available

Colorado Parks and Wildlife reminds anglers the fishing season is officially here

DATE: Mar 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Mock plane-crash training exercise seeks volunteers

Volunteers are needed to act and dramatize faux injuries for an emergency training exercise at Durango-La Plata County Airport, 1000 Airport Road, from 7 to 11:30 a.m. April 17. Up to 75 vol...

DATE: Mar 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Community

Building inspections to be limited March 4 to 8

The La Plata County Building Department staff will attend the 2024 Colorado Chapter Educational Institute for continuing education from Monday to Friday. The department will be open for busi...