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Filling a gap in one of the nation’s largest weather forecasting blind spots, a new weather station installed at the Old Fort Lewis campus in southwestern La Plata County is now transmitting...
DATE: Nov. 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Mercy Regional Medical Center is offering a class to help people preserve and regain their strength and balance. “Six Weeks to Better Balance and a Stronger Self,” a 12-session course, is designed...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
PAGOSA SPRINGS – Visitors to Chimney Rock National Monument next year will have a safer hike to the mesa top following work completed this month by a Native American crew from Zuni Pueblo, a New...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
SANTA FE – Amid the misery of the Great Depression, Rupert Lopez gratefully worked for $1 a day for the Civilian Conservation Corps, making adobe-block walls for a new regional National Park...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
When you’re a kid, Halloween is all about fun – dressing up in your scariest costume, spending hours going from house to house collecting candy and hunting for that one house everyone talks about...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
As a little girl, Pat Jackson was the kid who’d put injured birds into shoe boxes bedded with crumpled-up tissue paper and holes punched in the lid. Now, all grown up, she runs St. Francis...
DATE: Oct. 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
PECOS, N.M. (AP) – Mark Quintana gestures into the shady thicket of pine trees. His sons are in there somewhere, he says, along with a few of his cousins. Theirs is a familiar fall scene in...
DATE: Oct. 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
In the past week, I have had the opportunity to speak with some truly inspiring people, and get this: a few were politicians. I know, sounds improbable, right? This election season, the words...
DATE: Oct. 19, 2016 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
To succeed in the 21st-century workforce, young people will need skills in science, technology, engineering and math. They will also need life skills in public speaking, leadership and community...
DATE: Oct. 19, 2016 | COLUMN: From the Extension Office
PHOENIX – A Colorado woman who completed a nearly 82-mile swim across Lake Powell in 56 hours said the vast distance wasn’t her biggest fear. “I wasn’t concerned about the distance. I had trained...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
SALT LAKE CITY – On the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, more than 100 boats are sitting high and dry in a parking lot, unable to sail the shallow, drought-stricken sea. North of the...
DATE: Oct. 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The San Juan Mountains Association would like your comments to help plan for next summer’s adventures. The SJMA especially wants to make sure its river trip is tailored to its members, volunteers...
DATE: Oct. 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
