By Age-Friendly Carbondale For the past three weeks we’ve examined places where non-motorized users have created dangerous “social trails” across Highway 133. This week, we’ll begin examining signalized crossings, starting with Cowen Drive and working our way south. Cowen is a significant intersection. TheCowen Center gas station with a market, animal hospital, offices, shops and […]
June 2024
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Mature Content: The rest of the story
Remember my marijuana farm from last month’s column? I used that story to make a point about conditions along Highway 133 but probably left you wondering, “How did Kokish resolve the job thing? After burning the plants, wasn’t he still stuck in a soul-crushing bureaucracy?” I want to tell you how that turned out, but […]
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Ralph Roger Clarke
May 31, 1945 – June 2, 2024 Ralph Clarke passed peacefully June 2 in Redding, California at age 79. He was born in Glendale, California to Ethel and Roger Clarke. He grew up in the La Crescenta and San Fernando valleys and earned his associate in arts degree at Pierce College. He worked at his […]
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Janice Blanche (Holgate) Clark
March 3, 1948 – May 31, 2024 Jan Clark passed away peacefully on May 31 at the Hope West Care Center. She was 76. Jan was born in Glenwood Springs to Blanche (Whitbeck) and Robert Holgate. She spent most of her life in Carbondale before moving to Grand Junction in 2013. Jan enjoyed fishing, especially […]
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Works in Progress
Scene Five By Don Marlin Sally had taken off to class when the phone rang at their house. Richard was off today as music usually was taught in the county on Monday, Wednesday and Friday leaving Tuesday and Thursday for preparing test questions, music theory lectures, and the occasional spot tests on French horn scales. […]
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Letters
Support our pool I have been serving on Carbondale’s Parks and Recreation Commission for three years now. I volunteered to serve because the pool construction was on the horizon and I thought I could help. As the cost curve has skyrocketed since we envisioned the project and passed the bond for it by a three-to-one […]
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El Sabor de Mexico
Entrevistas bajo el sol Por Bianca Godina Editora de El Sol del Valle Los dueños son María Soto y Cruz Serafin junto con su hija Sienna Serafin desde el 27 de enero de 2024. “Mi papá es de Nayarit, México y mi mamá de Guerrero, México y llevan viviendo en él más de 30 años”, […]
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Las “Novedades” de la Semana
Por Sopris Sun Traducción por Jacquelinne Castro Amanece un nuevo sol Comenzando el 28 de junio, Sol del Valle adoptará una nueva apariencia, un nuevo día de distribución (viernes) y un compromiso más profundo con el producto independiente – ahora será impreso por The Sopris Sun. Se finalizará el poner a el Sol del valle […]
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Difícil de explicar
Por Lucas de Cesco VOICES Radio Hour Lucas de Cesco es padre de dos niñas. También es editor de cine, chef y propietario de Domingo Sausage Company. Lucas se mudó de Argentina al Valle en 2019 con su esposa. Disfruta de actividades al aire libre con sus hijas como esquiar en invierno y hacer senderismo […]
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Adquiriendo pedacitos de Colorado
Por Yajaira Ayala Elevando el Futuro Con la bendición de Dios y el apoyo inquebrantable de mis padres, esposo y familia, he logrado convertir mis sueños en realidad. Mis padres emigraron a los Estados Unidos con el Sueño Americano en sus corazones y lograron establecer un hogar en Glenwood Springs en 1996. Poco después formaron […]