BCHCC Rehab Center to move this month

The Rehabilitation Center located within the Bent County HealthCare Center will be moving its services this month - February.

Green chile cheese ball

This recipe makes a great Southwestern-style cheese ball. Make it faster and easier with canned chiles.

Debdoozie's blue ribbon chili

Over the Counter: Live healthier now and later

A recent study sponsored by the United Health Foundation indicated that 40 percent (2 of every 5) of those living in the United States may be obese by 2018.

Grandmother's buttermilk cornbread

This recipe makes a moist cornbread that doesn't fall apart as it's cut.

Dr. Jeff Hersh: Chronic lower-back pain may be disc herniation or synovial cyst

Q: One of my relatives has had lower-back pain, and they diagnosed her with a synovial cyst. They tried to put a needle in it to take out the fluid, and now they want to do surgery. What is this disease, and is surgery the right answer?

Dr. Murray Feingold: What's in a medical name?

What’s in a name you may ask? Well, to many people a great deal, especially when the name relates to some type of medical condition.

Barbara Murphy: Nobody's perfect, right?

The other night, while watching the nightly news, I heard the newsman announce that the next featured story of the night was to be about lefties. That would be me!

James Jackson: Is the FCC setting the decency standard too high?

Last month, the Supreme Court heard a case concerning the FCC and fines for networks that violate governmentally determined decency standards. In this case, it was an issue centered on fines imposed because Cher used an expletive at an awards ceremony.

Gov. Hickenlooper, The Denver Post and Viaero Wireless steer two-wheelers east to ‘Pedal The Plains’

Gov. John Hickenlooper, in partnership with The Denver Post and Viaero Wireless, have announced more detail for a recreational Eastern Plains bicycle tour called “Pedal The Plains” to take place this fall.

Looking Up: Star-filled imagination

With an imagination, the sky is full of surprise. One never knows what you’ll see next. Like imagining shapes in fair weather cumulus clouds, a night sky watcher will see all sorts of things. You may be a grown adult and think finding cloud shapes is something just for kids. A night under the stars will cure you of that.

Dr. Michael Jones: Get moving with your arthritis

The best advice I can give for arthritis-related pain is to get up and get moving. Staying active and using your joints helps to keep them lubricated and prevents further breakdown and arthritis from setting in.

Dr. Carol Bauer: Tinnitus is a troubling hearing condition described as ringing in the ears

An estimated 36 million Americans experience a chronic phantom sound in their ears, known as tinnitus. The sound is perceived either in the head or in the ears in the absence of any external source of sound.

Linda Castor: Resolve to slay your dragon this year

We keep reading or hearing the words “perfect,” “best” or “success” as ways to define ourselves and how we should start the new year. It’s a lot to live up to. And, frankly, it can be quite overwhelming.

Grandma's cherry salad

Ready in 5 minutes, impossible to mess up. Keep ingredients on hand for a quick and easy salad (or dessert, with a dollop of whipped cream).

Jim Hillibish: Turn to sliders for your Super Bowl party

Amid this fun, the term “slider” justly is expanding to mean any miniature sandwich in a dinner roll. There are fish ones, club ones, reuben ones, chicken salad ones...

Wayne L. Westcott: Does electrical muscle stimulation add to strength?

We recently conducted two studies on increasing muscle strength and decreasing muscle fatigue that compared strength training alone and strength training plus electrical stimulation.

Yardsmart: Heirlooms protect the genetic diversity of our food supply

We had a cold spring. The modern hybrids languished while the heirlooms took off despite the cool season. This proved that the hybrids did not have the wide range of climatic tolerances as the heirlooms. If I had not planted heirlooms, I would not have had a tomato harvest that year.

Interiors: Create an elegant wintry table

Well, it's winter. But winter doesn't have to be dreary, and often during this no-holiday time of year, people enjoy lifting their spirits by entertaining. In winter, we tend to do things a little more formally, so let's explore how to decorate a dining table in a wintery, formal way.

Music Preview: Rolling Stones tribute from an unlikely source

The “Sticky Fingers” tour began as a few spot dates last summer in Western U.S. markets, but the response to the shows was so strong, Denson said, he and his band decided to keep the idea afloat for a while. A new stretch of East Coast dates kicks off Tuesday, starting with Boston, Mass.


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