Omicron The COVID-19 Omicron variant has made its presence known in the state of Colorado and accounted for 91% of positive cases over a three-week period. Prior to Christmas, Garfield County was seeing 25 confirmed positive cases of COVID each day on average. On Dec. 29, the county reported 136 positive cases in a single […]
January 2022
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My first run in porcelain
I don’t ski, so answering The Sopris Sun’s year-end dare to its reporters, to “do something you’ve never done before,” with my first descent down a double black diamond run, was one possibility. Except, for me, ski resorts are like factory farms for winter sports. I resolved instead to do something equally as bold: throwing […]
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De hábito a estilo de vida
¡Bienvenido 2022! El Valle entero terminó el 2021 a duras penas, y para muchos darle vuelta a la página y comenzar un nuevo capítulo con 365 hojas en blanco para seguir en búsqueda de eso llamado felicidad, era ya una necesidad tremenda. Soy yo o ¿hasta el café tiene mejor sabor al comenzar el año? […]
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Letters – Jan. 6, 2022
Thanks Gary! The “retirement” of Dr. Gary Knaus, preceded by Dr. Rick Harrington, are great reminders of our debt to people who built the social infrastructure in Carbondale. Rick and Gary were health care in town and built a strong practice that is now part of the Valley View health system. With the support of […]
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Chisme del Pueblo – 6 de enero
Traducción por Jacquelinne Castro MANA Foods La tienda de alimentos saludables locales de Carbondale está temporalmente cerrada mientras los voluntarios reubican la mercancía a la antigua ubicación de Wine Time, justo al lado de la Tortillería La Roca. Esto expande los pies cuadrados más del triple para MANA Foods, inclusive proporcionando espacio para yoga y meditación. […]
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A wild impulse, landscape painter Peter Campbell
“I have a triad, like a pie. In that pie, there’s what you see. There’s what you know. And there’s what you feel. The feel part is huge — it’s why you do what you do.” Plein air painter Peter Campbell will be celebrating winter works at Korologos Gallery in Basalt this Saturday, Jan. 8. […]
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Ps & Qs: It’s how to play the game
Happy new year! Oh boy, these days it seems like each year is better than the next… just kidding — sort of. We went through the ringer last year: pestilence, poverty, politicians who were ready to burn it all down and hang the vice president on the front steps of the capitol. This was the […]
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Digging the dark
Sometimes it takes friends to get you out of your comfort zone. It takes even better ones to get you to cross that proverbial boundary while at your side every step of the way. So, with a little help from my friends, for 2022 I tried something new: caving. Jan. 2, was an especially brisk […]
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Omicron surges through the Valley
Omicron, the prevailing COVID-19 variant of concern, was first identified in South Africa in late November. Within weeks, it was detected in Colorado and by Dec. 15 had arrived in Garfield County. Days later, on Dec. 20, Pitkin County reported its first case of Omicron, with a vaccinated individual testing positive. The precipitous spread of […]