On Aug. 31, at 5pm, the Superintendent Housing Task Force held a public meeting at the District Office in Carbondale led by task force member Lisa Dameron. She is also a Basalt Middle School teacher, the Roaring Fork Community Education Association secretary, and an RFSD parent. The task force comprised the five school board members […]
September 2023
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Rams volleyball tunes up for league season with some tournament action
Roaring Fork High School’s ladies volleyball team had the opportunity to fine tune things against some higher-classification competition at the Glenwood Springs Demon Invitational last weekend. The short-game (best of three sets) tournament format saw the Class 3A Rams emerge with a 2-1 win (25-19, 17-25, 15-8) on Saturday morning against 4A Weld Central, before […]
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GarCo Report: National Sheep Finals are back, county raises, more subdivisions
The National Sheepdog Finals (NFS) return to the Strang Ranch on Missouri Heights this month and the Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) approved the liquor license at Tuesday’s meeting, which was delayed due to the Labor Day holiday. Bridget Strang mentioned that the ranch has not hosted the NFS since 2019. She added that it benefits […]
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John Fayhee presents a new memoir at White River
John Fayhee is well-known locally as editor of The Mountain Gazette for 12 years and contributing editor at Backpacker magazine, and for his work with various local papers — most recently editing the Roaring Fork Weekly, a midvalley paper that folded at the onset of COVID-19. Now a resident of New Mexico, Fayhee looks forward […]
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Scuttlebutt & Calendar – Sept. 7, 2023
Town Center survey Artspace and partners are looking for input on how Carbondale’s Town Center project can best benefit the community with living and work spaces. An initial survey (www.surveymonkey.com/r/bonedale) will end on Sept. 13 and be followed by two design charrettes at the Third Street Center (Sept. 20 and Sept. 27). Both design charrettes […]
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Ps&Qs: Listen up, chuckleheads — 1 kid > all the guns
I like the movie “Barbie” so much that I went to see it twice at the Crystal Theatre. The more I think about it, Carbondale is kinda like Barbieland: every day is a good day, the town mothers have the final say, and the men can cry in public (at events like kids’ soccer games […]
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Resurgence of the stone mill
Many people find their niche and share in it with a handful of others, but Jacob Trumbull is going after his virtually on his own. The entrepreneur currently operates Roaring Fork Mill out of his home on Missouri Heights, and is the only stone-milled flour distributor in the Valley as far as he is aware. […]