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1 week ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
We’ve likely all seen the Instagram posts of turquoise waters framed by towering spires and colorful wildflowers. And apparently so has everyone else, making the Blue Lakes area near Ouray – like many other picturesque high-alpine spots – a victim of its own well-publicized beauty.
But if you want to see the shimmering waters for yourself this summer, you’ll have to wait.
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1 week ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
After May 31, Cathy Wakeman will be truckin’ on. The longtime owner of Animas Trading Co. – Durango’s mainstay for everything from festival wear and Grateful Dead memorabilia to cards, accessories and skivvies – is going down the road feeling, well, pretty good.
“I’m so excited. But, it’s kind of crazy,” said Wakeman, 65, who has been involved in the store for 32 years.
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2 weeks ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
Got a short attention span or like a wide variety when you go to the theatre? You’re in luck. Durango’s 15th annual “10 Minute Play Festival” takes place May 30 – June 1 at the Durango Arts Center featuring seven 10-minute plays starring 17 local actors.
The plays were hand-picked by the Durango Arts Repertory Theatre, which is also putting on the production.
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2 weeks ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
It just got easier for low-income residents to afford healthy local food. Beginning May 24, the Durango Farmers Market will be the newest participant in Colorado’s SNAP Produce Bonus program. The program allows people who receive SNAP benefits and have a Colorado EBT card to receive up to $60 a month in dollar-for-dollar reimbursements for fresh fruit and veggies bought at the market. The funds will be directly added back onto EBT cards, and no sign up is necessary.
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2 weeks ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
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.
The city will post clues to the rocks’ whereabouts each day at 8 a.m. on its Facebook, Instagram and Nextdoor pages.
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2 weeks ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
With the unofficial start of summer this weekend, Durango residents are being asked to help conserve water with the hottest, driest months of the year ahead.
This winter’s below-average snowpack combined with rapid melting have local leaders concerned about regional water availability. As a result, the City of Durango sent out a notice this week asking residents to be “mindful” of water use this summer.
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1 month ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best |Missy Votel
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.
Over the last couple years, Melotte said she has been, “omnivorously consuming content” about encounters with strange creatures whose existence scientists can’t prove.
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1 month ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel
Where else could an alley drifter be mistaken for a bike shop employee by a UPS driver and entrusted with $6,500 in goods, only to abscond with said goods? But wait, it gets better. The alley absconder left a trail of clues in his misdeeds – including a cameo on a surveillance video. Within 24 hours, the case is blown wide open by the small-town sleuthing grapevine, as were the cardboard boxes containing the goods, which, unfortunately, were not all that good at that point.
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1 month ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best |Missy Votel
Seems like the next great thing in ski town real estate is not a place to park your butt for the night, but a place to park your wheels. That’s right: we’re talking parking spaces.
“If you don’t own a condo in the central core of town, it can be very convenient to have a parking spot close to everything,” Hank Carter, an Aspen realtor told The Denver Post. “During the Fourth of July here, it is so crowded.
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1 month 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.
