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Position: Education, business & real estate reporter
Email: patrick@durangoherald.com
Phone Number: (970) 375-4507
Southwest Colorado got hit by a warm winter system, sometimes called a Pineapple Express, Saturday night, and the region can expect a string of storms one after another though the week. A system...
DATE: Feb. 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Real estate in the Purgatory area is experiencing a delayed renaissance after taking a hit during the 2008 Great Recession. Since 2017, new construction has become a more common sight in the north...
DATE: Feb. 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business
Durango High School improved its four-year graduation rate from 86.1 percent in 2017 to 87.4 percent in 2018, a seemingly small amount that obscures a major improvement in the graduation rate of...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Animas High School pays particular attention to potential first-generation college students from the day they arrive on campus. It’s something that AHS Head of School Sean Woytek credits with...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Zia Taqueria has finished a remodel of its north Durango restaurant’s entryway, but owner Tim Turner said he still intends to move one block south to a new building in spring 2020. And around the...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business
A new strategic plan that calls for improved retention of students, enrollment growth to 3,700 students within three years and more experiential learning opportunities for students was unanimously...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Janet Lopez got a preview of her future job as a member of the Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees on Thursday – discussing the school’s budget and getting a glimpse of the future that will be...
DATE: Jan. 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Commercial passenger traffic at the Durango-La Plata County Airport increased to 378,876 combined arrivals and departures in 2018, an increase of 6,549 passengers, or 1.8 percent, compared with...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Donna Cook, owner of the Sonoco gas station in Grandview, earned one loyal customer in an unusual way when she inadvertently sold him a half tank of gas mixed with water. But Mark Guenin of Pagosa...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Juniper School will begin a community discussion to plan for its permanent facility and kick off its enrollment application window at a meeting Monday at the school, 215 E. 12th St. Head of...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Durango Transit and Road Runner Transit are partnering to provide four new routes from the Transit Center to the Durango Tech Center as public and private agencies scramble to fill holes after...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
A 50-year-old woman from Oklahoma was with members of La Plata County Search and Rescue on the Purgatory Flats Trail at 8:20 p.m. Monday after she became lost while snowshoeing at the Durango...
DATE: Jan. 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
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