February 2019

When Natalyn Cumings came across a GoFundMe campaign for Alejandra, she felt empowered to do something beyond click “donate.” The fundraiser wasn’t seeking money for the 22-year-old asylum seeker’s personal use — it was seeking to pay her $20,000 bond so she could reunite with a family member in Carbondale. She’s currently detained at Eloy […]

The Homestead Bar and Grill opened its doors to a sold-out crowd Valentine’s Day. The restaurant, which is transitioning to the first-ever year-round establishment in the former Pan and Fork space, is just part of Dan and Wynee Coleman’s larger vision for the River Valley Ranch community. “They did great! I sent a bunch of […]

The Bureau of Land Management has announced its intended approach for managing the Sutey Ranch near Carbondale, pending a 30-day public protest period. The BLM acquired the 557-acre ranch, as well as the 112-acre Haines Parcel near Prince Creek,  in March 2017 through the Sutey Ranch Land Exchange with the Wexner family. Once a working […]

All those protests, letter-writing campaigns, and yard signs to protect the Thompson Divide are reverberating in the halls of Congress. Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Congressman Joe Neguse, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 2nd District, recently introduced the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act that would protect 400,000 acres in the state.   “The CORE […]

For more than 50 years, Chris and Terri Chacos have shared each others’ ups and downs. Both physical therapists, they met at a class in Denver in 1968 just as Chris was planning to leave for a Quaker mission in Vietnam. “Oh no! I liked him and — gone!” Terri recalled. So she followed him, […]

In polite company, there’s a social contract regarding how we interact with one another. But what happens when the company isn’t so polite? That’s the question playwright Larry Shue poses in his two-act comedy “The Nerd.” And it’s the question Colorado Mountain College’s Sopris Theatre Company isn’t shying away from in its adaptation of the […]

It was always meant as a temporary space — that’s why The Arts Campus at Willits named the venue The Temporary. Still, when the lease was signed in August of 2017, the initial vision extended beyond May of this year. TACAW Executive Director Ryan Honey is taking it as an opportunity to ramp up the […]

Jo Altmaier spends most of her time at Colorado Mountain College these days, but the Basalt High School senior really found her voice at last year’s Poetry Project, Aspen Words’ in-school, two-week program that places four full-time poets in 16 schools for two weeks in early February. Altmaier was so inspired by what she learned […]