June 2019

The times they are a changin’ in Carbondale’s local music scene. People spilled out onto the sidewalk outside Steve’s Guitars on June 21, which marked Pearl & Wood’s last performance — in Colorado, anyway. “Ellie and I, we’re scheming up a tour in California in November, so it’s not the ‘end, the end,’” said Natalie […]

Artists in many ways wield superpowers, maintains Andrew Simonet. He just wishes more of them felt empowered to use those powers outside the studio. “They have the ability to manifest something out of nothing,” he said. “To imagine something that doesn’t exist … that’s a complicated skillset.” And yet, many artists struggle to make ends […]

Emergency preparedness in schools is a sensitive topic since the advent of school shootings. We want our children and community to be prepared, but what are the potential costs. When some of us were young that safety plan was mainly fire drills. However, in today’s world, schools must prepare for worst-case scenarios. It would be […]

Mayor Dan Richardson worried the final decision to pursue an AARP Age-Friendly Community designation for Carbondale might prove anticlimactic due to sheer lack of opposition, but the cheers and applause from a room full of seniors demonstrated otherwise. The push was just part of multiple efforts by the Carbondale Age-Friendly Community Initiative (CAFCI) to boost […]

In 1893, then-President Grover Cleveland signed the homestead patent for what Crystal Valley residents now know as Sunfire Ranch. It hangs, framed, in the Sewell family’s house on the property. Today, 126 years later, Jason Sewell finds himself faced with a sort of pioneering opportunity — but he’s not doing it alone. Connor Coleman, founder […]

Despite the development of the Internet, satellites and the like, amateur radio is not only surviving, it’s thriving. The local Ski Country Amateur Radio Club boasts more than 100 members and consistently sees at least a dozen of them at 8 a.m. meetings every Tuesday at the Village Inn in Glenwood and strong participation in […]

There are myriad reasons people don’t successfully obtain treatment for substance abuse and addiction, according to the 2016 Garfield County Community Needs Assessment. Chief among them are lack of access and cost prohibitions. The Meeting Place at 981 Cowen Dr. seeks to ease those burdens. Just as the name suggests, it offers a safe space […]

Who knew hay fever would steer Dr. Chad Roeber, DVM to a career in veterinary medicine? But after a 33-year career as a veterinarian, he is leaving Alpine Animal Hospital. Roeber grew up on a cattle ranch in Paonia, one that has been in his family since 1889. He recalled, “I liked the animals, but […]