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In many cultures, including that of our First Nations People, elders are admired, respected, and valued for their perspective and wisdom. Family and community members gather around elders to seek advice and learn from their life experiences. As…
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I’m glad that Fred Malo addressed climate change in his most recent column (“God said, ‘The fire, not a flood next time.'”), but I was disappointed that he offered few suggestions for how individuals can make a difference.
There are many ways that…
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Jan. 8, 1981
Fred Pulver wrote about the Banzai Flu after contracting it. “One minute you’re fine, the next flat on your back with the worst splitting headache, chest congestion, cough (the hacky, dry kind) and…
The world is more dimly lit since Mark Stranahan, the middle child of George and Betsy Stranahan, died on Dec. 30, 2020 at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a result of complications of septic necrotizing pancreatitis. He was 63.
Mark’s journey began…
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A Love Letter to the Sopris Shopping Center
When I came back to teach at CRMS in ’70, we had to drive to Glenwood to Safeway to shop for “fresh’’ food. After I stopped teaching in ‘72, I bought a house on the Crystal and I believe…
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The cover of the Sopris Sun last week along with the timely interviews of displaced small businesses at the Sopris Shopping Center in Carbondale touched my heart. Quite frankly, as a former Trustee for 10 years, it was quite upsetting. The actions by Stein Properties, LP make… read more →
Review by Lisa Detweiler
New Castle Branch Library Associate
In her 2019 young adult novel “The Downstairs Girl,” author Stacey Lee tells the story of Jo Kuan, a 17-year-old young woman of Chinese American descent living in Atlanta, Georgia, in the late 1800s. … read more →
April 29, 1925 – Oct. 27, 2020
Wes Horner passed away in Bozeman, Montana on October 27. He was 95.
Wes grew up in Roanoke in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and spent his summers on the family cotton farm in Georgia. After… read more →
Dec. 23, 1933 – Oct. 17, 2020
Bill passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family and wife of 65 years. He was born and raised on the south side of Chicago to Marie (Fry) and William Lamont Sr., an immigrant from Port Glasgow, Scotland. … read more →
July 11, 1922 – Sept. 9, 2020
Penelope “Penny” Argiropoulos Pappas, daughter of James “Jim” (d. 1984) and Katherine Argiropoulos (d. 1929), and wife to Demosthenes “Stain” Pappas (d. 2015)
The Argiropoulos and Pappas families arrived in Colorado 1890s and early 1900s and were… read more →
