Buddy Program awardees The Buddy Program last week announced its annual awardees. The Champion Award was given to Conchita Ramirez, family liaison at Basalt Middle School, for her dedication to community! Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers was recognized with the Golden Carabiner Award and the Inspiration Award went to Pitkin County Healthy Community Fund for their […]
November 2021
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"Feeling Walls" explores the fragile edge of art
Sara Ransford has been living in the Valley since 1977, moving from Carbondale to Aspen, and then back to Carbondale. She worked as an art teacher at both the Carbondale Middle School and Carbondale Elementary School during the ‘80s and ‘90s, where she met Diane Kenney, a fellow art teacher at Colorado Rocky Mountain School […]
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Letters – Nov. 18, 2021
Equity? Equity. What’s that? Whatever it is, we’d better scramble toward it if we want to be seen as righteous. Stan Badgett Carbondale Thanks from Ascendigo On Oct. 29, Ascendigo Autism Services hosted our second annual Trunk or Treat event, offering a safe and fun environment for Halloween trick-or-treaters, especially those with autism or other […]
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Rams take home 3A state championship title!
The game might have lasted 80 minutes, but the Roaring Fork High School Ram soccer boys’ 3A state title was years in the making. It started with the Roaring Fork Soccer Club, and parents willing to drive their kids to matches hours away. Former Colorado Rocky Mountain School player Nick Forbes could see that when […]
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Aspiradoras de la tierra
Es posible que la Country Road 112 ha sido la más transitada hasta ahora. Sin embargo, el tráfico no fue de carros, sino de cabras. En una reciente mañana otoñal llena de rocío, Lani Malmberg y su hijo, Donny Benz, copropietarios de Goat Green LLC, llevaron 800 cabras por la carretera para cargarlas en remolques […]
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Nonprofit benefits outweigh the costs
If you can’t live without art or theater, if you are keen on keeping the rivers flowing, passionate about protecting nature, improving education, supporting the disabled, feeding the hungry, housing the poor, helping veterans, rescuing abused puppies, propagating native seed, building a church, listening to a local radio station and reading a local newspaper, what […]
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Carbondale report: RFTA’s bike share proposal underwhelms
The most recent regular meeting saw all trustees in attendance. During “persons present not on the agenda,” three people spoke. First, Chris Hassig offered his “two cents” about budgeting to pave the Town-owned, dirt lot east of Town Hall. Hassig called it “premature” to include such a project in next year’s budget. “We had similar […]
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Letters – November 11, 2021
Just between us… The “average” distance between our valley communities is 10 miles. If we are five minutes late, pushing on the gas won’t magically transport us to our destination. To “make up time” these conditions would need to be met: no enforcement, no other cars ahead of us, all green traffic lights, a speed […]
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Esquina Legal: Buscando una justicia alternativa
La Justicia Alternativa es una herramienta para la solución de conflictos. Tiene como propósito lograr un acuerdo entre los involucrados a través de la voluntad, la cooperación y el diálogo. Los jueces y magistrados, en vez de tomar una decisión dentro de un caso, continuamente ordenan justicia alternativa. Los procesos de justicia alternativa incluyen facilitación, […]