For a time, it seemed rehearsing via Skype was the best way to work with the entirety of the company — after all, the Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT) is a transnational troupe, with Artistic Director Samar Haddad King in Palestine and Associate Artistic Director Zoe Rabinowitz in New York. “We trudged along like that […]
March 2018
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Neighbors evacuated as Basalt home searched
An investigation into hazardous bottles in the Roaring Fork River lead to a search at the Roaring Fork Mobile Home Park on the evening of March 16. According to a Pitkin County press release, around 40 people from multiple agencies participated in the operation. “In the interest of public safety,” crews also evacuated 15 residents […]
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UN club helps cultivate model citizens at RFHS
The Roaring Fork High School Model United Nations club came home from New York with a concrete victory: the students representing Cote d’ Ivoire — or the Ivory Coast in English — cosponsored a resolution regarding the protection and safety of journalists, and three of their proposals made it into the final draft. “We went […]
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Learn to love monsters with ‘The Voices Project’
“Blame is a monster I can’t seem to kill off,” sophomore Daniela Rivera observes in a deeply personal vignette she will perform as part of “The Voices Project” — an interdisciplinary, multi-school performance which takes place March 16 and 17 at Thunder River Theatre. The piece was originally a poem which garnered acclaim at a […]
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A beautiful place at odds with its own future
I love Carbondale and the Roaring Fork Valley! Where else can you find four known rivers converging, Mt. Sopris’ constant vigil over us all and cattle walking down Main Street? The mix of friendly and caring folks all around gives somewhat of a mirror image of being in New Zealand, a place where people still […]
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On healthcare, is national improved Medicare for all the best answer?
Amid ongoing efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), and after rejection of Colorado’s state-level single-payer plan, the United States struggles to determine its healthcare future. Meanwhile, premiums, deductibles, and other forms of cost sharing continue to rise for those fortunate enough to have insurance. Companies, cities, and school districts struggle to fund […]
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Pages of the Past: Roaring Fork strike a blow for the underdog
From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal March 16, 1978 A series of conflicts between dogs and deer were causing headaches for local wildlife officers. In a specific incident described, a motorist on Highway 82 called in two dogs harassing a herd of mule deer. Officers arrived too late to prevent a fatality, […]
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Mutt and Jeff: Don’t take it to the extreme
Extreme. What in the world do we mean by extreme? When we speak of temperature we say that something is too hot or too cold, or perhaps that it is pleasantly warm or cool, or perhaps tepid. The highest and lowest temperatures would be at the extremities, thousands of degrees in the case of the […]
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The long and winding road to fire chief
For Rob Goodwin, being on top means propping people up. That’s been his philosophy throughout his career with the Carbondale and Rural Fire Protection District, and now that he’s chief, it’s no different. “There’s an old saying: ‘there’s no limit to what a person can do and what they can accomplish if they don’t care […]