“We have finally arrived at the next chapter in this four-year saga!” So began an email from Carbondale filmmaker Hamilton Pevec to The Sopris Sun about the upcoming premiere screening of his film, “It’s All Up Hill from Here: The John Seipel Story,” scheduled for Feb. 24 at The Arts Campus at Willits (TACAW) in […]
February 2022
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Evaluations for ‘kids in crisis’ increased in 2021
With the rollback of the emergency declaration prompted by the Omicron variant outbreak, the seven-member Basalt Town Council met in person for the first time this year at its regular meeting. The public broadcast of the meeting, which was covered remotely by The Sopris Sun, was delayed and repeatedly hampered by audio and visual technical […]
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Trustees tackle diverse agenda
Carbondale’s most recent Board of Town Trustees meeting saw all trustees in attendance. The agenda included selecting a company to complete the first phase of Eighth Street renovations, putting back out to bid the contract for seasonal yard waste collection, review of the Integrated Weed Management Plan and progress toward regulating short-term rentals. Within the […]
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RFSD seeks guest teachers
In January, when Roaring Fork School District (RFSD) students returned to classes after winter break, one school came very close to sending students home for the day. The reason? They had more teachers out due to illness than could be covered by substitute or guest teachers. Lisa Beuning, RFSD guest teacher coordinator, said the school […]
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Scuttlebutt / Calendar – Feb. 24, 2022
Candidate forum The Sopris Sun is proud to host a candidate forum for the Carbondale Board of Town Trustees, in partnership with KDNK, on Wednesday, March 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. Join in-person at Town Hall, online or by tuning into KDNK. If you have any question suggestions, please email them to news@soprissun.com with […]
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Pages of the past: Carbondale carries the torch
Feb. 18, 1982 Though they hadn’t been through two years of intermittent social distancing, folks still got cabin fever — so the Journal sought advice from Glenwood Springs psychologist Jerry Weinstock. He noted that the phenomenon was particularly prevalent in rural areas (which Carbondale certainly still was), since cities provide plenty of year-round diversion. He […]
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Marble Wetlands Preserve created through land donation
A long-sought Marble-area land donation was completed at the end of 2021 between an anonymous donor and the Trust for Land Restoration (TLR), a Ridgway-based nonprofit. The property, a 54-acre strip of land with wetlands on one side and steep forested hillside on the other, has been used by the public for river access for […]
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Opening the door to outdoor accessibility
In 2021, over half of all Americans participated in some type of outdoor recreation, according to the Outdoor Industry Association’s (OIA) annual recreation trend report. Although this number has been steadily increasing since the pandemic, the OIA also found that there is a consistent and significant lack of diversity in outdoor recreation, and one reason […]
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Our Town: What’s cookin’ with Calder Morrison?
The Sopris Sun’s “Our Town” series introduces folks from the community to its readers. For this feature, correspondent Kate Phillips caught up with Calder Morrision, owner and operator of Gaijin Ramen House. Let’s dive in! Where are you from? I was born in Louisville, Colorado, but really grew up here in the Roaring Fork Valley […]
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La educación en casa ofrece una alternativa
Traducción por Dolores Duarte El sol empezaba a asomarse por la costa de California cuando se escuchó el suave sonido para el desayuno en la caravana de la familia Bannon-Levine, enclavada bajo las secuoyas. Sin prisas, Katie Bannon, residente en Carbondale, y su marido, Scott Levine, conversaban con su hija Isabelle, de nueve años, sobre […]