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My dog is the best dog in the world. Now, he hasn't always been that way. He's a springer spaniel-Labrador or a "springador," and he was the puppy from hell. He chewed up three pairs of reading...

The Dolores Chamber and Visitor's Center is now open for our summer hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week, and boy are the visitors flocking in! We are also seeing a huge increase, about 300...

After around 130 homes were evacuated between the Weber and Roatcap fires in Montezuma County last year, the concern about fellow residents starting fires is well founded. But you may put yourself...

The Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch Center reports that fire danger is increasing on public lands as southwestern Colorado heads into the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Not only has this spring...

Recently, I heard a couple talking-heads on TV bemoaning the popular sentiment that today's kids graduate from high school, and even college, without ever being taught how to balance a checkbook or...

This is the last full week of the 2013 session. Still to be debated and voted on in the Senate are many weighty topics, some presented in lengthy bills of over 100 pages. Examples are dramatic...

Showing the worth of a person or task by giving my undivided concentration. How do you feel when you are trying to explain something to someone, and they pay little or no attention to you? It can...

If you've been watching the national news over the past few weeks, you know that the upper Midwest and Northeast are getting "clobbered" by one storm after another. If it's not frozen moisture,...

The little yellow building next to the Flying Pig at 313 Railroad Ave. is being prepped to become a recording studio. This little building has been a lot of things over the years, most recently a...

I suspect most people are capable of far more than they think. Under the right circumstances a lazy person can become a captain of industry. History tells many tales of humble folks who rose to...