Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is slowly and carefully navigating the rough waters of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. To help students figure out what’s going on, CMC has issued a Fall 2020 Trail Map loaded with detailed information and guidelines. It’s going to be a mixed bag of online and in person classes, depending on the […]
June 2020
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Are testing and tracing for the virus enough?
Neither Carbondale nor Basalt have ordinances requiring a business to close if it has a specific number of positive COVID-19 test results from employees. And Garfield and Eagle counties don’t either. “That’s because each business has a different set of circumstances,” explained Garfield County Chief Communications Officer Renelle Lott. According to a Colorado Department of […]
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An open letter to the ‘reverse looter’
The other day I found an envelope on the street. On it is written “To Business, Reverse Looting, Love Carbondale.” Inside is $40. I invite the people behind that envelope to reflect on these questions: Are you trying to set Carbondale apart from other parts of the country where people are rising together in the […]
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Bursting the white bubble; raising the white shield
About a week ago, a local lady, Marlene, asked online: “If I may, I have a question for anyone with a workable answer? Those Black people who have attained some degree of education, wealth, influence… Why don’t they organize, reach out to their fellow man…?” My friend Ron Kokish was gobsmacked. Echoing my initial reaction, […]
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Can we ask schools to do the impossible?
When I was a second grade teacher I set my watch’s second hand to match the clock in my classroom. Every day, at 30 seconds past 9:28, my students split off into six different rooms to receive their small group reading instruction. As my students left, less familiar faces arrived from other classrooms. I sat […]
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Branching Out: Escaping pressure
In this week’s Mountain Journal, a nonprofit journal centered on Yellowstone National Park, I read an editorial about the packed trails locals are experiencing in Livingston, Montana under the shadow of Bozeman’s population explosion amid COVID-19. I felt their angst over an attempt to find pleasure in the wilds, only to find stress amid crowds. […]
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Coping with the coronavirus is especially difficult for our neighbors with autism
To many of us, the prolonged disruption to our routine was somewhat appreciated. Backyard improvements and walks close to home sufficed for a nice break from the structure of day to day life. However, for someone living with autism or other cognitive disabilities, a change in routine can cause serious stress for them and their […]
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Sinkhole repaired, northbound CO 133 restored in Carbondale
Northbound traffic on Colorado Highway 133 in Carbondale is back to normal. Today the Colorado Department of Transportation repaired a large sinkhole located just south of the intersection of CO 133 and Main Street, near Mile Point 68. Crews filled, tamped down, capped, and paved the sinkhole, which measured 15 feet in diameter by 12 […]
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Carbondalian aims to compassionately address opioid addiction
Margaret Fay Seldeen — who also goes by Maggie, Mugsy or Mugsy Fay — is taking a step back from music and the Creative District in Carbondale to pursue her passion: fighting opioid addiction here in the Roaring Fork Valley. Seldeen sees every individual’s story as unique and worth listening to for what it is; […]
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Increased power and internet outages disrupt virtual life
“CenturyLink has indicated a possible problem in calling 9-1-1 in the Roaring Fork Valley.” Look familiar? Subscribers to Pitkin County emergency alerts may have seen this message via text and email on May 27. “Any time the internet is out, home phone service is out. That’s why 9-1-1 is unavailable,” said a CenturyLink sales representative. […]