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Fort Lewis College Leaning Clock Tower

By: Mia MCCormick Indy Staff Writer

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

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...

Debunking Fungiphobia: Don't get in truffle

By: Zoe Coughlin Indy Staff Writer

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

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....

Standing on 150 million years: Dino discovery in our backyard

By: Mia McCormick Indy Staff Writer

Thursday, February 16, 2023

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...

Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology

By Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer

Saturday, May 21, 2022

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...

Bound Together by Train

By Mia McCormick

Saturday, May 21, 2022

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...