It’s 2 a.m. and your cat is staggering and having seizures. What can you do? It may be time to immediately contact the closest emergency vet clinic. Fortunately for residents of the Roaring Fork Valley, Basalt’s Valley Emergency Pet Care (VEPC) treats small animals like household pets. The clinic, according to Practice Manager S. Moring, […]
January 2021
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Scuttlebutt – January 21, 2021
Comp plan redux Carbondale Trustees agreed during a work session on Jan. 19 to move forward with a process to update the Town’s comprehensive plan. By the estimations of town staff, this could take around nine months and will involve multiple opportunities for balanced input. Proposed areas of focus include the north side of downtown, […]
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Mark Stranahan: Jan. 30, 1957 — Dec. 30, 2020
The world is more dimly lit since Mark Stranahan, the middle child of George and Betsy Stranahan, died on Dec. 30, 2020 at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a result of complications of septic necrotizing pancreatitis. He was 63. Mark’s journey began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Jan. 30, 1957. He […]
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Overdue fees eliminated at Garfield County Libraries
Garfield County Public Libraries (GCPL) is once again setting the standard for community engagement and free education by eliminating overdue material fees — indefinitely. Although overdue fees have been removed, library materials still have a due date and items 60 days past due will have a replacement fine added to the account. Fortunately, if the […]
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Letters – January 21, 2021
A Love Letter to the Sopris Shopping Center When I came back to teach at CRMS in ’70, we had to drive to Glenwood to Safeway to shop for “fresh’’ food. After I stopped teaching in ‘72, I bought a house on the Crystal and I believe it was in the Fall of ’72 or […]
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Our Town – Meet Ed Holub, our bona fide Deadhead
Q: Where did you grow up? A: In New Jersey. I lived in Newark for 13 years and then moved to a place called Cranford. My parents were both Polish immigrants. My dad was taken to Siberia during World War II, and my mom was run out of her village and taken to Germany and […]
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Plotz for Plosky’s and kvell for Kula
Bagel-lovers rejoice, a new Jewish-style deli is on its way. Slated to open in June 2021 is Plosky’s, the new venture of long-time local chefs David Eisenson and Mark Hardin. The pair met working at Six89, the much-loved restaurant by Mark Fischer that closed in 2012. They’ve both worked at various eateries throughout the valley […]
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Too late for a moratorium on Highway 133?
The cover of the Sopris Sun last week along with the timely interviews of displaced small businesses at the Sopris Shopping Center in Carbondale touched my heart. Quite frankly, as a former Trustee for 10 years, it was quite upsetting. (can i buy zolpidem in spain) The actions by Stein Properties, LP make a mockery […]