KDNK is gearing up for its Labor of Love auction beginning on Friday, Dec. 1, and continuing (online) through Dec. 8. The annual tradition is one of KDNK’s biggest fundraisers. Early registration for the auction opened at www.KDNK.org on Nov. 20. Those who sign up early will receive a free drink at the main event, […]
November 2023
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It takes a village, and what a village!
Editor’s note: Clarke is the co-chair of The Sopris Sun’s board of directors. There are so many great reasons to be proud of the publication you are holding in your hands. Less than six weeks after our local newspaper of 34 years was scrapped by corporate owners, a group of Carbondale citizens quickly gathered together […]
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Western Slope shows support for conservation in BLM plan
In August of this year, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) to be appended to both the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction resource management plans, affecting usage policy for approximately 2 million acres of land for the next two decades. After a two-month period of public […]
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Brenda Patch Tournament kicks off season for Rams basketball
The new-look Roaring Fork High School boys and girls basketball teams open the season with their home Brenda Patch Tournament this weekend. Girls coach steps downRight off the bat, the girls team is adjusting to a coaching change following the unexpected resignation this week of new head coach Albert Blanc. Blanc, a 1966 Glenwood Springs […]
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STC production sheds light on neurodivergent perspective
On Nov. 24 at 7pm, Sopris Theatre Company (STC), Colorado Mountain College’s (CMC) student-community theater hybrid, premiered its second show of the season, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” The opening was met with an intimate and befitting audience and went off without a hitch. It will run again this weekend, Dec. […]
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Scuttlebutt and Calendar – Nov. 30, 2023
Forest Service buildingAccording to a press release, work to redevelop the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District compound in Carbondale will begin next week with staff moving to a temporary office on Weant Boulevard. The existing location will be temporarily closed to the public Dec. 6-8, reopened Dec. 11-15 and then closed permanently on Dec. 18. The new […]
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Bennet bill strives to protect rights of migrant children
At the beginning of November, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Lisa Murkowski and Representatives Dan Goldman and Maria Salazar presented a bill to protect migrant children in immigration court. The bill’s measures would provide further support for children who have become separated from their families. Specifically, it would establish a children’s court with trained personnel […]
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Basalt Report: Councilor Drummond resigns, opening temporary seat
This week, Basalt’s town council discussed an upcoming two-day closure on Midland Avenue as well as this year’s budget. This meeting also marked the last for councilor Glenn Drummond, who officially resigned on Nov. 30. Elected to a four-year term in April 2020, Drummond initially had planned to serve until the term ended in April […]
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Carbondale Report: Trustees approve state sales tax collection
Carbondale will move to state-collected sales tax effective Jan. 1, the board of trustees decided in a unanimous vote on Nov. 28. The change, which reverses the town’s move to self-collected sales tax in 2006, means businesses will no longer have to obtain a sales tax license from the town of Carbondale and eliminates a […]
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CVEPA Views: Nuts! An American Tragedy
I found myself giggling with the exhilaration of each steep, sinuous turn. We descended rapidly down a perfect ribbon of asphalt as if on a roller coaster. We had driven almost 3,000 vertical feet up from Italy’s Mediterranean Sea coast to hike the subalpine spine of the Ligurian Apennines. This hundred mile long mountain chain […]