The local community for supporting the Durango Telegraph, bringing an alternative voice to Durango and beyond for the last 10 years 
The countless hours of work and dedication that went into bringing the USA Pro Challenge to town, giving locals and the world a reason to celebrate Durango and its awesome cycling legacy
The engineer and passengers of the Eureka and Palisade train that saved Silverton resident Jerry Lyle on Monday after he slipped from a cliff and fell

Last weekend’s sketchy and senseless murder of a Fort Lewis College student, in which alcohol use on the part of the suspect likely played a key role
 

Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., for not only overstepping his boundaries by making ludicrous and outrageous remarks about rape but following it up with the defense that he merely “misspoke one word.”
 
The Oklahoma school that required a kindergartner to turn his Michigan T-shirt inside out because it violated the Oklahoma-only paraphernalia policy