Press release from Wilderness Workshop The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced Friday that it has reached a settlement in the lawsuit filed by oil and gas company SG Interests over the cancellation of 18 leases to drill in the Thompson Divide area of the White River National Forest, near Carbondale. The leases were improperly […]
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Guest Column from Arn Menconi, 3rd Congressional District democratic candidate
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Follow the money and you see who and want runs America. What are the federal government’s five biggest benefactors? 1. Finance & Banking 2. Military and Security complex 3. Oil and Gas 4. Big Pharma 5. Big Agriculture I have an MBA. I ran a $3 million-a-year charity for 10 years. I worked for savings-and-loans […]
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A Wes-side story of a ‘homeless’ man
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Editor’s note: A version of this story ran in the June 10 Glenwood Springs Post Independent. Last June 3, Wesley Paul “Wes” Bright, 45, a homeless man, was accidentally struck by a truck crossing Highway 133 in Carbondale between Village Road and Dolores Way. Bright’s neck was broken and he was pronounced dead at the […]
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Obituary: Oliver Nimmo
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June 21, 2013 – May 30, 2018 Oliver was born in Denver to Harlan and Tamara Nimmo on June 21, 2013. Oliver died on May 30, 2018 in the wee hours of the morning. He was 22 days short of being 5 years old. Oliver was born with Hirschsprung’s Disease which affected his intestines, robbing […]
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Take a tour of Marble’s past
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Time travel is now available right here in the Crystal River Valley. If you come to Marble on Sunday, June 24 anytime between 1 and 4 p.m., you can step back in time about one hundred years. The Marble Hub and Marble Historical Society are presenting the Living History day, where you can see scenes […]
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John D. Lawyer, October 18, 1918- May 9, 2018
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John Lawyer, former municipal judge of Carbondale, passed away peacefully at home with his family after 99.5 terrific years on Earth. Born in Macomb, Illinois, John soon moved with his parents John C. Lawyer and Bess Dague Lawyer and his sister, Ruth to Evanston, IL where John grew up enjoying swimming in Lake Michigan. Swimming […]
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The handkerchief and the cross
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Editor’s note: In lieu of Pages of the Past this week, we’ve opted to reprint an abridged version of a story from the Dec. 23, 1974 Roaring Fork Review (available for public perusal in its entirety at the Carbondale Branch Library). The predecessor to The Valley Journal and thus The Sun, the Review was the […]
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CRES celebrates Bike Week
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It’s bike week in Carbondale. Third grader Emily Espinosa Guzman and her fellow CRES students got an early start with a safety class. (Valium)
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Mother's Day 2018
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Continuing a decades-long tradition, the Mothers Day issue of The Sun features new moms and their little ones. Photos by Mark Burrows
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Obituary: Wallace Alvari Eugene de Beque, III
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Wallace Alvari Eugene de Beque, III passed away peacefully at home last Friday after a long life and a brief illness. He was 96 years-old. Wally was a true son of the West. He was born in Carbondale to Margaret Anne Dinkel and Wallace de Beque, Jr. He is the grandson of two Colorado pioneers […]