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Position: Herald Staff Writer
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Position: Herald Staff Writer
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Its obvious your perspective on life has dramatically changed when youre feeling blessed to qualify for a bone marrow transplant.SueB Earl, a Durango mother, physical therapist and avid outdoors...
DATE: Feb. 6, 2011 | COLUMN: John Peel
At what point do you say enoughs enough and take a stand?Jackie Morlan decided shes not going to take it anymore. Her line was crossed.After 23 years with Community Connections, the last eight as...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2011 | COLUMN: John Peel
MAYDAY Cloth-bound, faded and dog-eared, this ledger is showing its age. Although it cant actually talk, it tells a fascinating history. Line after line, its notations speak about peoples lives...
DATE: Jan. 9, 2011 | COLUMN: John Peel
Did you have a good year? Are you having a good new year so far? Is it too early to ask that question?This is not a quiz, but have you answered the first three questions correctly?Its possible...
DATE: Jan. 2, 2011 | COLUMN: John Peel
IGNACIO – In a Hollywood kind of way, one can feel the drama:It’s January and J. Paul Brown is walking out the door, on his way to tell fellow Republicans he isn’t going to run. His wife, Debbie,...
DATE: Dec. 26, 2010 | COLUMN: John Peel
The smiling green mouth blinks off, replaced by the yellow nose. I squish the brake pedal to bring my truck to a quick halt on South Camino del Rio, killing my momentum as the red eye stares...
DATE: Nov. 28, 2010 | COLUMN: John Peel
It’s partly the spectacular view of the snow-swept La Plata Mountains from his rural home on the Durango-Bayfield border.It’s partly that a man from Appalachia with an eighth-grade education, who...
DATE: Nov. 21, 2010 | COLUMN: John Peel
Lily Van Sant failed her mother. Badly, it turned out.Candise Griswolds topmost request when her daughter set off from Durango for New Zealand on a high school exchange program: Dont fall in...
DATE: Nov. 14, 2010 | COLUMN: John Peel
For right now, lets just blame it all on Florida Road.I mean, its making me do all kinds of crazy things take long road trips, vote for a Republican or two. Wacky, I tell ya. Its also making a...
DATE: Nov. 7, 2010 | COLUMN: John Peel
Editors note: This is the second of a two-part series about the 1907 death near Hesperus of Secret Service agent Joseph Walker and his great-granddaughters quest to see that his deeds dont go...
DATE: Oct. 31, 2010 | COLUMN: John Peel
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series about the 1907 death near Hesperus of Secret Service agent Joseph Walker and his great-granddaughters’ quest to see that his deeds don’t go...
DATE: Oct. 24, 2010 | COLUMN: John Peel
Your first question for Jyldyz Djunushbekova might be, “How'd you end up in Durango?”The native of Kyrgyzstan, which sits almost exactly halfway around the globe longitudinally, has a quick...
DATE: Oct. 17, 2010 | COLUMN: John Peel
