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Blooming cacti make a dazzling display in Durango’s mid-country recently./ Photo by Missy Votel

Gaining speed

Silverton’s Baker’s Park project awarded $750,000 GOCO grant

Meet the new boss

Scott McClain tapped as City's new Parks and Recreation Director

Big? Definitely ...

but Colorado utilities see no beauty in Trump’s reconciliation budget bill

Making a run

Bayfield Republican announces bid to challenge Rep. Jeff Hurd

Leave it to beavers

Festival celebrates the furry critters that keep our ecosystem flowing

June 19, 2025

We've been here before

June 19, 2025

China sabotaging U.S. solar arrays

June 19, 2025

Why Trump attacks liberal education

June 12, 2025

Flying in face of logic

June 12, 2025

Tariffs hurt rural renewable projects

June 12, 2025

We can't eat money

June 5, 2025

CPW must stem hostility toward wolves

June 5, 2025

Is your life better now?

Pre-July 2016 Archives

Durango Telegraph eEdition

Animas River at Durango,Co
Discharge, cubic feet per second

More at: waterdata.usgs.gov

The Pole

Ear to the Ground

"This is like rafting through 'Better Homes & Gardens.'"
--Boating the San Miguel River through Telluride's high-rent district is not your average float

Got scraps?: 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.; Read More

Thumbin' It

The Klamath River in Oregon and California is running free for the first time in 100 years after the removal of four dams. Even better, a group of youth from area tribes – to whom the river was sacred – had the honors of making the first (re)descent.

We didn't think things could get more effed up, but then Vance Boelter happened. Really? You even shot the dog? We don't know how this jibes with your so-called Christian values, but we're pretty sure this earns you a one-way trip down to that really hot place you always talk about.

Haiku Movie Review

Mickey 17

Promising premise,
and Pattinson’s impressive,
but long, lame third act

~Lainie Maxson

This Week's Sign of the Downfall

Art Official Intelligence

Last January, a nonbinary AI named Flynn was accepted as a student into Vienna’s University of Applied Arts, and last month, Miles Astray entered a real photo in an AI photo contest to prove humans were still relevant. But his first-place prize was revoked when the judges found out his picture was real. Craziest of all, Grammy-winning producer Timbaland just launched the world’s first AI music label called Stage Zero, which signed TaTa, pictured here, two weeks ago as his first artist. Timbaland calls TaTa a “living, learning, autonomous music artist.” All of this is great news for starving artists who want to be even hungrier, but it’s horrible news for traditional producers like R. Kelly for obvious reasons.

June 19, 2025

June 19, 2025