Febrero es reconocido a nivel nacional como el Mes Estadounidense del Corazón, y los cardiólogos locales dicen que es un buen momento para que los residentes del Valle de Roaring Fork presten más atención a la salud de su corazón, especialmente en una comunidad de montaña donde los síntomas pueden ser fáciles de pasar por […]
February 2026
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En medio de la pérdida de hábitat, la fauna silvestre se “está adaptando a lo que nos queda”
¿Alguna vez has visto una manada de alces reunida en un lugar que no parece del todo adecuado? Tal vez en la pila de compost del vertedero. ¿O en un campo de golf, rodeado de casas? “Algunos de estos lugares que no parecen entornos naturales —no lo son—”, dijo Matt Yamashita, de Colorado Parks and […]
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View from the Therapy Pool: What happened to the baby boomers?
Born in 1949, I’m a proud member of the baby boomers. You know, the generation that’s responsible for the biggest population explosion in this country in the 20th century as the World War II soldiers came home and found making love was a lot more fun than making war. We brought on the dawning of […]
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Literate Life: Why are people so mean?
In my last job I took a required workshop on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. One of the exercises paired me up with a young woman whose parents were born in India, although she’d been born and raised in the States. We were supposed to talk about where we’d grown up. Who did we feel comfortable […]
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The Buddy Program: Hitting marks and other fortunate events
Rafael, 11, tipped his head, stared at a spot on a massive elk target, its rack curving skyward, in a stand of trees. He drew his bow, intent, and released an arrow. Thwack. “That was a perfect shot,” Mike said. My husband, Mike Benge, and his friend Franz Froelicher were walking courses with Rafael Gonzalez, […]
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Works in Progress
Soul Glimmers: Crossing Borders with the HeartMaira HernándezGlenwood Springs This poem has been translated from Spanish. I arrived in a strange place,with streets that spokeanother language,with faces that did not recognize my story,and with a sky largerthan any dreamI had ever had. Loneliness wrapped its armstightly around me,fear bit into every step,and the cold of […]
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Mountain Sprouts fills a playful niche
Caregivers have a new place to take children 9 and under for unstructured playtime with others. Better yet, the play cafe has an extensive drink menu with espresso classics, specialties like matcha and chai as well as italian sodas and boba. Mountain Sprouts opened in the La Fontana Plaza on Jan. 19 and had its […]
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Dim the lights!
People can learn to live with a lot: boisterous neighbors, noisy construction, glaring lighting. It might not be until someone else poses the question, “How can you live with that?”, when they ask themselves the same. That, more or less, was the case for Brian Pettet, a resident of Ranch at Roaring Fork, when a […]
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Interviews Under el Sol: ‘Our job is to care for people’
Benito J. Arce Palestina began his career in 2014 as a firefighter in Colorado. He previously volunteered for the Palmer Lake Fire Department, but for almost three years now has served in the Valley. For the past six months, he’s been with Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District. Originally from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, he came […]
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Ways of Making: Where astronauts land
As I sit in Brian Colley’s studio, a small plastic stampede of dinosaur figurines gathers in the corner, suspended above plush eyeball masks and a dim light bulb the size of an adult head. Asked how the dinosaurs play into his art practice, Colley mentions a watercolor series of “Dinosaur Rodeos” he made a few […]