June 2019

It has been a little over a year since voters approved a tax hike to support Crown Mountain Park, and it’s beginning to pay dividends. “It’s been an absolute game changer,” said Park Manager Nate Grinzinger. “We feel like there’s so much untapped potential here. We want to really raise the bar on how it […]

Yes, there’s a lot of snow in the high country. No, that doesn’t mean all our water woes are over. Social media is awash with figures describing snowpack at more than 400 percent of normal for this time of year — which is true, but only to a point. The Roaring Fork Conservancy has stopped […]

Graduation caps have been thrown by Roaring Fork and Bridges High School seniors, and Colorado Rocky Mountain School’s ceremony is this weekend. There is a lot to celebrate, so we caught up with a recent or soon-to-be graduate from each of Carbondale’s schools to learn about their plans and what advice they’d give the underclassmen. […]

The Basalt Shooting Range Working Group will present its recommendations to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) about the future of the Basalt gun range  from 6 to 8 p.m.Thursday evening in a public meeting at Basalt High School. The Working Group is composed of six volunteer citizens with “diverse backgrounds,” all residents of the town, […]

The Sopris Sun is conducting a series of interviews with folks you may not have seen in the paper before – a sort of introduction to your neighbors. This week, we caught up with Sami Dinar, the Range and Noxious Weed Specialist for the Aspen Sopris Ranger District. Q: Where are you from and how […]

Though the term might conjure images of stale coffee and late-night, candlelit discussions about the writings of Aristotle, Confucius, or Nietzsche, this is not your grandfather’s philosophy club. While calling upon history’s most famous ponderers is certainly fair game in the Basalt Library’s Philosophy Club, its roster of hipper, more contemporary topics offers broad public […]