Category Archives: -November 2007

Pieces of silver: Book tells history of Native American earrings

November 4, 2007
Connie Gotsch

One day, New Salem, Mass., silversmith Bobby Bauver was chatting with a friend from New Mexico, Robert Gallegos, a connoisseur of Native American and Hispanic art. Gallegos was about to sell a collection of Navajo and Pueblo earrings. Bauver made … Continue reading →

Published in -November 2007, Arts & Entertainment

Growing practice

November 4, 2007
Jim Mimiaga

Clinics held in Durango make it easier to get a state permit for the use of medical marijuana Suffering from cancer? Smoke some marijuana. How about from multiple sclerosis, AIDS, hepatitis, glaucoma, nausea or chronic pain? You too can light … Continue reading →

Published in -November 2007

Volunteer shortage worries fire departments

November 4, 2007
Gail Binkly

Fewer young people stepping up to provide emergency services In Elm City, North Carolina, in January 2007, first responders to a structure fire have to wait 10 minutes for extra help to arrive. While they wait, the house burns down. … Continue reading →

Published in -November 2007

A towering dilemma: Bluff, Utah, debates putting a cell antenna on its scenic ridge

November 4, 2007
David Long

Even while cell-phone towers are spreading like cheatgrass in other areas of the Four Corners, some residents of a bucolic Bluff, Utah, are trying to stave off locating an antenna on the pristine sandstone ridgeline north of their tiny town, … Continue reading →

Published in -November 2007