By: Mia MCCormick Indy Staff Writer
The Fort Lewis College clock tower has stood tall and sturdy since the turn of the century, never faltering, never swaying, until this year, when it began to lean.
The clock tower is a staple of FLC, it marks the campus quad, chimes relentlessly every hour and is anything but camera shy.
Recently though, our poor clock tower, like some of us, has started to feel the effects of the after-spring-break, oh-shiz-the-semester-is-ending-soon grind. It’s losing its shape,...
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By: Zoe Coughlin Indy Staff Writer
A look into mushrooms growing in the area, where to find them and why they are so important.
Have you been walking in the woods in Durango or even your yard and stumbled upon a patch of mushrooms growing? If you have, that's because mushroom season is right now.
Did you ever wonder whether these mushrooms were edible or poisonous?
Mushrooms, which are part of the fungi kingdom, are decomposers and get their nutrients from organic waste material. They turn waste matter into usable nutrients for humans, other animals and...
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By: Mia McCormick Indy Staff Writer
A discovery on a hiking trail leads to a glimpse into Durango's past.
A dinosaur died on Animas City Mountain in Durango about 150 million years ago, and in December of 2021, a local fossil hunter found its bones.
Tom Eskew, a certified arborist and amateur fossil hunter, said he had walked over them hundreds of times until one day, he looked down and realized there were fossils in his path.
“The most valuable finds in paleontology are actually made by amateurs who then report them,” said Dr. Jon Powell, an...
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By Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer
FLC welcomes Shiprock local who aims to help Indigenous students succeed.
The Counseling Center added a new staff member, Gerald Shorty, assistant director of diversity and Outreach Initiatives, this semester.
Born in Shiprock, Shorty attended Nenahnezad boarding school in his childhood, he said. It was an adjustment coming from that academic setting to Shiprock High School, and later, college.
Shorty focused his studies in criminology at San Juan College then continued onward at the University of New Mexico where he would receive his...
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By Mia McCormick
The simple bliss of riding with strangers.
It’s 9 a.m. on March 27 and there’s a train full of people heading to the halfway point between Durango and Silverton, Cascade Canyon. They may be lovers, friends, family or strangers who each have their own lives in different places, and yet for the next five hours, passengers find themselves at an intersection heading down the same train track.
What connects humans? More specifically, what connects a group of strangers on a random train...
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