On Monday, May 20, award-winning singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson will perform on the Steve’s Guitars stage for the first time, accompanied by her guitarist, Blair Michael Hogan. This is part of her Colorado/New Mexico tour to promote her most recent album, “Just a Poet.” “Being [in Carbondale] for the first time will be cool. This will […]
May 2024
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Basalt Report: Summer concert series lineup announced
A free summer concert series will return to the Basalt River Park every Wednesday night from June 19 to Aug. 28. In 2023, the Town of Basalt cut the ribbon at Basalt River Park and kicked off a wildly successful first season of free concerts. “We saw crowds of more than 500 people show up […]
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Raymond Andrew Girardot, Jr. DDS
October 23, 1943 – May 9, 2024 Andy passed away peacefully at home on May 9. He was 80 years old. Andy was a fourth-generation Colorado native. He grew up hunting and fishing with his dad and friends. After attending East High School, he graduated from the newly-opened George Washington High School in the Denver […]
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GarCo Report: Condos? In an airplane hangar?
Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) Monday spent a little over an hour in the morning and maybe a half-hour in the afternoon approving, denying and continuing various items. No one from the public had anything to say about issues not on the agenda. An update from Rural Public Lands County Council lobbyist Robert Weidner from Washington, […]
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Shirley Lorraine “Nightingale” Joyner
January 27, 1934 – April 24, 2024 Born in Los Angeles, California to Lois and Charles Nightingale, Shirley attended 1st through 8th grade in Englewood, Colorado and graduated from Paonia High School in 1951. On January 16, 1954, Shirley married William D. Joyner and they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary this year. That union welcomed […]
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Professional dishwashing: Perfect for today’s teens
The headline in an upvalley newspaper caught my eye. It said, “Students, now’s the time to secure a summer job.” Great idea, and here is a great summer job for teens: washing dishes in local restaurants. Dishwashing is a quickly learned skill that can follow teens for a lifetime if they need a job fast. […]
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Works in Progress
The Time TravelerBy Tom Mercer Charles “Timely” Smith was a relatively inconspicuous man. In fact, Charles was very close to unnoticeable, and that quality served him well as a professional “temporal violation agent” for his employer, ChronoCorp. When dressed appropriately for his target year, Charles could slide up unnoticed right behind a chrono-transgressor (aka a […]
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After decades of work, state lawmakers approve wolverine reintroduction
Unlike the gray wolf (Canis lupus), Colorado voters did not approve the reintroduction of the North American wolverine (Gulo gulo luscus);. state lawmakers did. In late April, the Senate vote was 29-5 in favor of SB 24-171. In early May, the House followed suit with a 51-13 vote. The bill was sponsored by Republican Sen. […]
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Housing Coalition’s ‘Good Deeds’ buydown program hoping for summer launch
A new affordable housing program aimed at lowering the price of existing homes for qualified buyers in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys, without the burden of new construction, could launch as soon as this summer. The West Mountain Regional Housing Coalition (WMRHC) outlined plans for its Deed Restriction Purchase Program at a housing […]
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Long COVID — Where are we now?
In late 2021, The Sopris Sun published a story on a medical condition that had arisen during the COVID pandemic and had only been identified a short time earlier. Formally called post-acute sequelae of SARS CoV-2 (PASC) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is now commonly known as Long COVID. The […]