Colorado Parks and Wildlife offers grant

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering a one-time grant opportunity to agency partners that engage in hunting and angling outreach and education. The Partners in Outdoors Grants ...

Dolores 80 years ago

Taken from the Nov. 24, 1933 files of the Dolores Star Big County Relief Program On Tap Montezuma County's employment program was mapped out this week and work will beg...

Dolores 40 years ago

Taken from the November 30, 1073 files of the Dolores Star An Old-Fashioned Christmas In Dolores This Year An old-fashioned Christmas in Dolores will be launched Monday...

Early Learning Center appreciates support

The Mancos Early Learning Center appreciates the continuing support received since opening the doors last January 2013. Mancos High School senior Ty Koppenhafer helped with landsc...

Energy ABCs looks at industry facts, myths Consultant talks about fracking, power at luncheon

New environmentally friendly technologies may not always be what they seem. Lori Smith Schell, president of the Durango-based consultancy Empowered Energy, gave the example of plu...

Next generation of biofuels years away from fruition

NEW YORK – The first trickle of fuels made from agricultural waste is finally winding its way into the nation’s energy supply, after years of broken promises and hype promoting a next-genera...

Helping those in need

Poll: ‘Just kidding’ doesn’t make online slurs OK

WASHINGTON – In a shift in attitude, most young people now say it’s wrong to use racist or sexist slurs online, even if you’re just kidding. But when they see them, they don’t take much pers...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Breckenridge and Keystone put limits on uphill skiing, pets

BRECKENRIDGE – Ski resort uphill travel policy is a relatively new concept. But with the rise in popularity of backcountry and resort-based ski mountaineering, it’s become an increasing nec...

County awarded grant for child protection

Money freed up after report of lapses in social service offices

Sierra cement visits Four Corners area

Durango finally gets its snowfall – the wet kind