The new Mind Springs Health withdrawal management facility in Glenwood Springs officially opened last month, creating a new support resource for community members and alleviating capacity pressure on hospitals and law enforcement. Last week, regional outreach director Hans Lutgring, MSW, and program coordinator Andre Gossweiler spoke with The Sopris Sun about what the center offers […]
Annalise Grueter
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La sal bajo Carbondale no es motivo de preocupación
Por Annalise Grueter Corresponsal de Sopris Sun Traducción por Dolores Duarte En el valle de Roaring Fork tenemos una relación íntima con la geología. Basta echar un vistazo a los topónimos contemporáneos para darse cuenta: Basalt, Redstone, Marble, incluso Glenwood Springs. Esta cercanía a los cimientos físicos de la región ha desempeñado un papel en […]
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Salt under Carbondale is no reason to sweat
We have an intimate relationship with geology in the Roaring Fork Valley. A glance at contemporary place names is telling: Basalt, Redstone, Marble, even Glenwood Springs. This closeness to the physical foundations of the region has played a role in energy production and economy, from silver mines to stone quarries and midvalley charcoal and ore […]
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The history of formal US experiential education
Once upon a time, experiential education was the pedagogy. Many high-ranking nations for education today heavily center primary education around experience and play. Once academia became established in the U.S. as the primary method of learning for young people, however, desire arose to offer alternative means for learning skills inadequately covered in memorization-based classrooms. Some […]
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Jury summons for Marble residents put them between a rock and hard place
For folks living in Marble, being part of Gunnison County is one of life’s little jokes. It is not always important, but every now and then, Marble residents have to face the reality that serving jury duty when called is nearly impossible.There’s an overblown joke that nobody likes jury duty; imagine having to drive several […]
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Breaking down barriers with experiential ed
I was a big nerd when I was a child through my teenage years. (Spoiler alert: I’m still a pretty big nerd now.) I enjoyed academic learning — from multiplication tables to practicing cursive to assigned reading, from Dr. Seuss in elementary school to Shakespeare and Solzhenitsyn in high school. When classmates were looking at […]