May 2025
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Letters – May 8, 2025

by Letters to the Editor

Re: Rams RunOn April 25, Crystal River Elementary Schoolers ran in the 12th annual Rams Run. The fundraiser continues to be a well-loved tradition, with parents, grandparents, siblings and friends alike coming to cheer on and join the students. The kids run as many laps as possible in 30 minutes, raising money either by flat […]

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Scuttlebutt & Calendar

by Raleigh Burleigh and James Steindler

Seed swapBring some saved seeds to Bee Friendly Carbondale’s booth at Dandelion Day to share and exchange with others, this Saturday (May 10) from 10am to 4pm. Mountain Valley greenhouseMountain Valley Developmental Services has launched a $15,000 capital campaign to perform needed maintenance on a greenhouse which provides annual and perennial plants to homes and […]

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Seeking Haystacks: When we come to it

by A.O. Forbes

When we come to it
We, this people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth, of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth
A climate where every man and every womanCan live freely without sanctimonious piety
Without crippling fear When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the […]

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Obituary: John Seidel

by Obituary

There will be a celebration of life for John Seidel, a long-time resident of Carbondale who resided lately in California, on Sunday, May 18, at the RVR Thompson Barn at 2pm. There will be food and beverages. Come and remember John; it will be fun, just as he would want it.

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