A review of the bands … Rock bands are popping up all over the valley again, bringing back the classic mix of skate, rock and rebellious culture. Garage bands capture the spirit of youth — making music with friends and filling neighborhoods with the raw energy only live rock can deliver. These humble beginnings often […]
April 2026
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Digging holes while singing
Our lives have no foreshadowing. We exist in a parable composed in messy handwriting and screenshots. We have no editor. No backspace. We cannot do or be anything we please, and instead wander in the vague direction of our childhood aspirations. Every parable has a moral — a lesson deemed worthy of our attention. But […]
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Breaking the bank to slay at prom
“… Today’s proms are big business: According to a 2015 Visa survey, the average cost of prom was $919 per person, which includes everything from attire and flowers to dinner, tickets, limo services, photography and after parties, as well as the phenomenon of ‘promposals.’ The survey found that American households spent an average of $324 […]
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Model UN delegates discuss big-world problems
In April, Model United Nations was hosted at Roaring Fork High School, with students from neighboring Colorado Rocky Mountain School also participating. In this session, students — or delegates, rather — debated as part of the simulated Disarmament and International Security Council. Each delegate represented a different country around the world. The topic of debate […]
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A war swept under the rug of international attention
The Anglophone Crisis, a war in Cameroon that has been escalating for the past 10 years, has gone vastly under-reported, earning little attention from international media. What started as protests against the Cameroonian government has quickly developed into an official conflict. Yinyu Divine Mburi, a citizen and lawyer of Cameroon and a past resident of […]
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Historiography: ‘Touch Not Yon Dandelion!’
Historically, Carbondale was known for its fine and abundant potatoes. What is less known is that the dandelion was responsible for the transition from grain crops to potatoes, according to premier spud grower Eugene Grubb in “Carbondale Pioneers, 1879-1890” by Edna D. Sweet: We grew alfalfa and our land was worth only $50 per acre, […]
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Scuttlebutt – April 30, 2026
Dandelion anyone?Dandelion Day is looking for more than 60 volunteers to help at the 28th annual event on May 9. Visit https://tinyurl.com/4kk4fad9 to sign up for a shift. Garfield County emergency exerciseGarfield County agencies will carry out a “multi-jurisdiction exercise to test emergency response capabilities” on May 14 in the Glenwood Springs area, according to […]
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Roaring Fork Valley student nabs prestigious scholarship
Anna Sophia Brown calls it a crazy year. She’s president of multiple student organizations, captain of the speech-and-debate team and, more recently, learned she’s now the recipient of a substantial scholarship. It was announced in early April that the Roaring Fork High School senior nabbed the Boettcher Foundation Scholarship, an award given annually to just […]
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No Script, No Exit: ‘The Long Conversation’ comes to Carbondale
On Sunday, May 3, two people will walk onto the stage at the Crystal Theatre with no moderator, no set topic, and only one instruction: pick up where the last conversation left off. Then they’ll talk for 30 minutes, step off, and hand it to the next pair. Over 12 hours, that relay will repeat […]
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Low streamflow and invasive species present threats to watershed
On Thursday, April 23, some 150 community members gathered at the Pitkin County Library for the Colorado River District (CRD)’s State of the Roaring Fork River. The event is one in a series that the Glenwood Springs-based water agency has been presenting around the state. CRD chief of strategy Amy Moyer and communications director Matt […]