Durango Telegraph

1 week ago | durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best

Durango is the 33rd most-populated city in Colorado, yet, it boasts one of the largest bike swaps in the state. And this year’s swap, the 16th annual held April 25-27 at Chapman Hill, was the most successful yet, according to organizers. “The swap brings together riders from across our community,” Devo Executive Director Nate Greason said.

1 week ago | durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best

Retired civil and water engineer Louis Meyer awoke Monday morning at his farm about 10 miles north of Durango to see the mountains wearing a fresh blanket of snow. They had been scantily clad for much of the winter. The spring snow was welcome, he said, but unlikely to change the story of Southwest Colorado: Runoff will be abysmal.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | durangotelegraph.com | Allen Best

Matters of little consequence often get major time and attention. And vice versa. Two energy bills in the Colorado Legislature this year, one about nuclear energy and the second about electrical transmission, illustrate this. The first bill, HB25-1040, which is now law, declared that nuclear energy is clean. It proclaims that utilities can meet clean-energy targets with nuclear. It also allows private projects access to financing restricted to clean energy development.

3 weeks 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.