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Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on predicting the peak flow of water in the Animas River. The first story appeared March 28. Most Durango residents by now have...
DATE: April 25, 2010 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
DENVER - Dakota Givens manned up as best he could for six years - from the day when well-meaning friends at hisfather's funeral told the 5-year-old he was now the man of the family - until he was...
DATE: April 25, 2010 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series on predicting the peak flow of water in the Animas River. The second, on considering snowpack in making predictions, will appear in the ...
DATE: March 28, 2010 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
SILVERTON - One doesn't have to walk far in Silverton's Hillside Cemetery to know that the town was a tough place tolive in its early days. European immigrants who flocked to the alpine burg in...
DATE: Nov. 22, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Its first beers, an unfiltered porter, bitter and stout, were born in a goat shed.Its public offering raised nearly $2 million, but profits were hard to come by.It saw the explosion and flattening...
DATE: Sept. 26, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
OAK CREEK (AP) - In a little more than five months, Routt County resident Tom Thurston will be buttoning up his jacket, battening down his sled and putting dozens of booties on his closest...
DATE: Sept. 26, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) - The $18 million military museum boosters want to build just outside Fort Carson's gates will be a draw for tourists and show local school kids what World War II was all...
DATE: Sept. 12, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) - Bryan Nygren knew by age 6 that he wanted to be a game warden, and that, indeed, became his career for about 25 years.It was not his only interest in wildlife, however; he...
DATE: Sept. 12, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ROCKWOOD - More than 125 years ago, hardworking San Juan pioneers built a wagon road from the struggling mining camp of Silverton to the Animas Valley. Now, under a proposed U.S. Forest Service...
DATE: Sept. 11, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
COCHITI PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) - Cochiti Pueblo Gov. Floyd Pecos, Lt. Gov. Pete Trujillo and council member Joseph Henry Suina stood by the edge of the almost-overflowing Rio Grande on a May morning....
DATE: Aug. 23, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) - If a car can be family, this 1966 Pontiac is like a suave favorite uncle with nary a wrinkle to indicate his years.But it is a bittersweet truth in the Shaver family that...
DATE: Aug. 9, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
AURORA (AP) - Jimmy and Linda Yip still haven't quite fathomed the twist of fate that took their only child but wound up giving them hundreds more from Asia to Africa to the Americas.But they do...
DATE: July 26, 2009 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
