This is a few weeks overdue, but we'd like to thank the Good Samaritan with power tools who repaired the handle on our newspaper box at the Rec Center, which was held together with zip ties. We maybe cried a little when we saw it.
The most-anticipated local shopping day of the year, Noel Night, takes place this Fri., Dec. 6. So, get out there and shop local till you drop (not literally, that would make a scene).
Local entities coming together to open an emergency warming center this winter to make sure no one is left freezing their a$$es off on the streets (unless they're waiting to get into a Snowdown event.)
Oh great, now they're saying wildfire smoke gives you Alzheimer's. You could try to run, but where? And will you remember where you're going when you get there?
Pouring one out for local historian Duane Smith, who died this week at the age of 87. His humor and inexhaustible local knowledge will be sorely missed.
Durango alpinist Kurt Blair is missing in action and presumed dead after this party of three failed to check in Dec. 2 during a mission to climb Aoraki, New Zealands's highest peak.
