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The City of Durango is offering discounted compost service for income-qualified residents. Residents who complete an application and are approved for the Food Tax Rebate or Utility Refund (or both) will be automatically approved for discounted curbside compost collection from Table to Farm Compost.

There’s about to be another reason to pull off 1-70 in Idaho Springs other than Beau Jo’s pizza. Work began last week on a $58 million gondola that will haul people 1,300 feet up the mountain from the historic Argo Mill in town.

The moose is loose, and don’t mess with her. This week, Colorado Parks and Wildlife issued a warning about potentially aggressive cow moose as they protect their young during calving season. The warning was issued in the wake of three recent attacks, which occurred in Park, Grand and Routt counties. Folks are advised to be extra vigilant near water with thick vegetation, where moose often hide their young, and be forewarned: nothing pisses them off more than furry four-legged hiking companions.

If you come upon a painted rock on your travels around Durango next week, don’t be so quick to dismiss it. It could be part of the City of Durango’s 3rd annual Scavenger Hunt. The hunt, which places five brightly painted rocks in various locations around the city, takes place Mon., May 26 - Fri., May 30. 

Create Art and Tea may have closed its doors earlier this month, but the nonprofit Art Guild of Create Durango that was housed there is still going strong.

Durango has a speed problem. And in the interest of public safety and reducing accidents, the City of Durango has announced a new Speed-Management Plan. But first it wants to hear what you have to say. Through May, the City is conducting an online survey on speed and safety on city streets.

Durango is the 33rd most-populated city in Colorado, yet, it boasts one of the largest bike swaps in the state. And this year’s swap, the 16th annual held April 25-27 at Chapman Hill, was the most successful yet, according to organizers.

This week, Jonathan Thompson brings us a story (p.8-9) about Ol’ Big Foot, the last known wolf to roam southeastern Utah in the 1910s. But Sarah Melotte, writing for the Daily Yonder, has a story on the Bigfoot, as in the hairy, mysterious, man-beast said to roam the wilderness and haunt our days and nights­.