Snowdown: Back to the 80s!

Story by Carolyn Estes Photos by Nicole Curry

Every year, downtown Durango holds a five day long celebration with smaller events hosted by local businesses called Snowdown. This year’s theme is reliving the 80s with events starting Jan. 27 and ending Jan. 31.   Snowdown is a community coming together and hosting the events to promote fun, commerce and tourism, Linda Brockway, event co-coordinator of Snowdown,...

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Bark Beetles in the Southwest

Story and Photography by Hanna Maddera

As you look across Wolf Creek Pass, there are masses patches of trees that have grayed. In some areas, these graying trees outnumber the green, healthy ones, and each year in the Southwest, due to beetles, the patches of graying trees becomes larger and larger.   The Spruce Bark Beetle   The spruce bark beetles are attacking Engleman spruce trees near and around Wolf...

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A Digital Step in the Right Direction

Story by James Lilburn, Graphic by Julia Volzke

With the rise of the computer, technology in general and the ability for people to log their every movement, thought, feeling and meals to be immortalized in text or photograph on a digital platform, there is an entirely new realm of possibilities when it comes to protecting private information from invaders.   According to Lindsey Nyquist, social media director at Fort Lewis...

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'To Change Everything' an International Anarchism Panel Comes to FLC

Story by Keenan Malone, Photography by Nate Obici

On Wednesday, November 4 Fort Lewis College hosted the international touring panel for anarchism and political discussion, in the Student Union Ballroom. The event included a table from the sociology department centered around issues of police brutality, along with the dirty hands collective. Several representatives spoke from various countries about the specific struggles and uprisings within...

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Rocky Horror Show

Photography by Camden Smith, Slideshow by Lauren S Hammond

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