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1 week ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel |Molly Cruse |Allen Best
The return of trails season to area BLM lands came a few weeks early this year. On Tues., April 15, the BLM, in coordination with CPW, announced it was lifting winter wildlife closures on trails on Grandview Ridge and Animas City Mountain. This was a full two weeks earlier than the anticipated opening May 1.
“This year, there isn’t much snow at low to mid-elevations.
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2 weeks ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel |Molly Cruse |Allen Best
Now for something from the shameless self-promotion department: our very own longtime columnist, poet and Montezuma County friend David Feela has published his fifth book.
Titled “Feelasophy,” it is a collection of 70 short, wry and often-sublime essays on life’s absurdities and blessings – many of which have appeared in these pages (and others) over the last 10 years.
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1 month ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Jennaye Derge |Sarah Mulholland |Missy Votel
It just might be the best thing since sliced limes. Ska Brewing has announced a new addition to its beloved Mexican Logger lineup: Lime Logger with Salt.
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1 month ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Sarah Mulholland |Missy Votel |Jennaye Derge
It may seem hard to believe, but Durango’s small, homegrown film festival is turning 20 this year. And to celebrate, it’s even bigger, better and badder (we mean that in a “good” bad way) than ever.
Kicking off Wed., March 5, with a free community movie night, DIFF brings five days of independent film to our corner of the cinematic universe, offering nearly 100 independent films for our viewing pleasure.
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1 month ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
Next time you see a Carhartt ad, look a little closer. It could be your neighbor, co-worker or local barista. And it’s not by accident.
The ad campaign, and the use of good, old Durango yocal locals as models, was all the work of local advertising agency Idea Ranch. And to recruit willing models in a town where Carhartt is the unofficial uniform, they did not have to go far.
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1 month ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel |Jennaye Derge
Attention closet keyboard klankers and newbie novelists: Four Corners Writers is seeking submissions from area writers for its second anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The upcoming collection follows the success of the Cortez-based nonprofit’s 2024 anthology, “Four Corners Voices,” which features the work of more than 40 regional authors and poets.
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2 months ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Jennaye Derge |Missy Votel |Allen Best
The Hive has found a new home. Last week, the local nonprofit youth organization announced it will be moving into a new location at 1175 Camino del Rio. The Hives lost its lease last summer at its former location at 1150 Main Ave.
The new location, conveniently located along the river trail and across the river from the skatepark, comes with a five-year lease and an option to renew for another five years.
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2 months ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
There’s a new-old face behind the counter at 6th Street Liquor. Former resident and Fort Lewis College graduate Jared Thomson and wife, Amy, bought the venerable downtown “packie” liquor store last month.
“My whole family is from the area,” said Thomson, who grew up in Farmington but had grandparents in Durango. After graduating from FLC, he moved to Seattle, where he met Amy and lived for 16 years prior to moving back to Durango.
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2 months ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel |Allen Best
The magazine that brought us such luminaries as Kevin Fedarko and John Krakauer is no longer – at least as we know it.
According to a Feb. 11 report by Adventure Journal editor Steve Casimoro, the parent company of Outside magazine laid off 20 staff members last week, leaving doubt about the ongoing viability of the publication.
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2 months ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
by Missy Votel
Forget everything you’ve ever known – or thought you’ve known – about pole dancing: the seedy nightclub, the tawdry music, Tony Soprano and anything else fed to you by Hollywood.
Pole dancing 2.0 has entered the fitness and dance mainstream – there is even an annual “PoleCon” for pole dancing aficionados – and it has now come to Durango.
