January 2019

A collaborative effort among multiple community stakeholders will result in three new trails and safer trail access at the Red Hill Recreation Area. The partnership between the Town of Carbondale and the Carbondale-based Aspen Valley Land Trust (AVLT) started with an effort to acquire and permanently protect a 25-acre parcel of land at the base […]

More than 125 local cops, doctors, teachers, philanthropists and citizens recently gathered for the biggest anti-human-trafficking conference ever held on Colorado’s Western Slope. That one-day summit happened because Glenwood Springs Attorney Angela Roff asked Carbondale resident Beth Klein to make it happen. Beth Klein, a Boulder attorney who retired here with her husband James two […]

Lux Wellness Center co-founders Jade Wimberley, a naturopathic doctor, and Lauren Whittaker, a chiropractor, want their space to be a forum for conversation and education as much as a place for healing. In fact, they see as one informing the other — and, they contend, there is a conversation happening right now around the potential […]

Ride the Rockies organizers at The Denver Post make a point of never bringing the cycling tour through the same town two years in a row, but that doesn’t mean they’ll never revisit. And this year Carbondale will again — for the third time — host as an official stopping point in the seven-day loop […]

As renters struggle to find housing in the Roaring Fork Valley’s oversaturated market, some have pointed their fingers at landlords offering short-term housing instead — but they may be mixing cause and effect. It’s part of making it possible to live here,” explained Carbondale Branch Librarian Lacy Dunlavy. “It’s all just going to my mortgage.” […]

Now in the thirty-third day of the partial government shutdown, the impacts are only becoming more magnified as furloughed workers are bracing to miss a second paycheck and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, runs out of funding in February. Impacts of the shutdown are making national headlines, and a number […]

When Carbondale Police Officer Brandyn Rupp stopped a gray Subaru Forester near the intersection of Second Street and Snowmass Avenue for allegedly speeding just after midnight on Jan. 12, the driver turned out to be Luis Yllanes, a member of the Carbondale Board of Trustees. In addition to a citation for exceeding the speed limit […]

First, it was a mindfulness and self-compassion workshop. Financial wellness is next on the docket at FootSteps Marketing. Sydney Schalit, general manager turned FootSteps CEO, lights up when she talks about it. “We were all just sitting in a sweet little circle with a gong in the middle, then we kind of got back at […]