Snow began to fall along the banks of the Animas River as the sun dipped behind Smelter Mountain the evening Feb. 15. Temperatures soon settled below zero.
Aquila Cota had a tent set up along the Ani.
The temperature outside the paper-thin walls of Ely Long’s tent plummeted to 14 degrees before sunrise on Nov. 11. By the time the new Community Compassion Outreach Temporary Warming Center opened for.
Community members concerned about the plight of homeless people in the greater-Durango area gathered Thursday at Fort Lewis College to listen to and ask questions of a three-person panel of local prof.
La Plata County’s planned closure of the homeless camp at Purple Cliffs on La Posta Road (County Road 213) is just one month away yet the city of Durango hasn’t secured a location for a new managed ca.
A Durango-area nonprofit released a survey this week that indicates more than 400 people are living unhoused in La Plata County.
The La Plata County Unhoused Count and Survey was conducted by Neighbor.