Traducción por Dolores Duarte No es ningún secreto que hay una falta de mano de obra. Es una tendencia nacional y el Valle Roaring Fork no es la excepción. Caminando por Main Street en Carbondale, es difícil no notar los carteles de “se busca ayuda” pegados en las ventanas de los restaurantes más populares. Algunos […]
July 2021
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Letters – July 29, 2021
Re: redistricting Thank you, Sopris Sun, for all the articles on Colorado’s redistricting process and the public hearing that will be held at the Third Street Center this Saturday at 11 a.m. While the details of the redistricting process may seem complicated, the main purpose is simple: to ensure that district maps in Colorado are […]
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Sopris Lodge delivers on convenience
Sopris Lodge in Carbondale officially opened to residents on July 7. Located at 295 Rio Grande Avenue, just north of True Nature Healing Arts and next to the Rio Grande Trail, it consists of one building with 27 independent living apartments. With 24 memory care and 23 assisted living apartments, the other building is scheduled […]
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Community, meet the police
The first-ever Carbondale Police Department (CPD) Citizen Academy was quickly renamed the “Community Academy” so as not to deter folks without U.S. citizenship from participating. That change-up was the result of input given by the first members of the academy — and was one of many suggestions taken to heart by the department. Citizen academies […]
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Seeds of change sown in Silt
On a hot summer afternoon, one of many with temperatures fixed above 100 degrees in Silt, six high school students worked diligently to complete a harvest before taking their lunch beneath a large cottonwood tree at the edge of Highwater Farm. “It’s the best summer job,” Youth Program Coordinator Anna Thomas assured The Sopris Sun. […]
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Decolonizing Ilex vomitoria
From examining the names of streets and professional sports teams, to reconsidering what statues are displayed in public, the U.S. has arrived at a historical reckoning point. The colonial narratives of our past undoubtedly left their mark on the present and now the question is, what do we want to celebrate? “We are starting to […]
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Letters – July 22, 2021
Honoring our roots I want to thank Bruno Kirchenwitz for his appreciation of the USA to which he and his family immigrated in 1954. I am glad his family has thrived. I don’t agree that the media is dividing our country by identifying where people’s origins are and what religions they have. To strip a […]