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The Sleeping Ute takes an early-summer snooze as seen from the western flanks of the La Platas./ Photo by Alex Krebs

Book Burro hits the road

Maria’s vintage Airstream-turned-bookmobile aims to deliver free books across region

Picking up speed

Propelled by $1.1M in grants, Phase 2 of Silverton’s Baker’s Park to begin this summer

Wild at heart

Remembering Katrina Blair’s crusade to reclaim the power of wild plants and lands

Redefining the business of art

Colorado’s new A Corp model helps creatives retain control while attracting investment

Tougher on trash

As human-bear conflicts rise, new state law targets ‘knowingly’ allowing attractants

June 11, 2026

Weiser champions public lands

June 11, 2026

A Constitutional civics class

June 4, 2026

Despite having to leave, priest's message stays

June 4, 2026

'Domestic terrorist' label reopens wounds

June 4, 2026

Flock and the 4th Amendment

May 28, 2026

Bennet's backscratching

May 28, 2026

Pros and cons of AI

May 28, 2026

Stop assault on our wildlife

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

"think a Roomba would be worth it if I could get my cat to ride it."
--We're not cat people, but is this a thing?

Not so fast

Remember last year, when the Trump administration asked national park goers to “report any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans or that fail to emphasize the beauty, grandeur and abundance of landscapes and other natural features”?

Well, it seems park-goers have pushed back, bigly.

Thumbin' It

Score one for the truth. Trump's attempt to sanitize American history at U.S. national parks failed miserably, with the majority of more than 37,000 comments objecting to attempts at erasing the past.

Well, there goes our Social Security checks. According to latest reports, the Social Security trust fund, which supports roughly 68 million Americans, is expected to run out in six years – even earlier than previously estimated – which would cut benefits by an average by 22%. Maybe we all should've gotten jobs at SpaceX.

Haiku Movie Review

Ladies First

Imagine a world
where a quick concussion can
cure misogyny

~Lainie Maxson

This Week's Sign of the Downfall

Cop Dusting

An unknown man in London is wanted by the police for spray-painting “I fart3d in yoga” in at least 20 different places, but the locals think of him as a hero, so nobody’s snitching. All the pieces are obviously the work of one individual because the farting cartoon character is always the same, as is the “3” in “fart3d,” which has become more of a name than a tagline. Some people are even calling the artist “I fart3d in yoga man,” which totally sounds like a superhero. So, although the cops have new video evidence of a man in shorts spray-painting his calling card, his identity remains safe. And frankly, that’s the way it should be, because nobody in my Tuesday class ever needs to know who it is.

June 11, 2026