By Age-Friendly Carbondale For the past three weeks we’ve examined places where non-motorized users have created dangerous “social trails” across Highway 133. This week, we’ll begin examining signalized crossings, starting with Cowen Drive and working our way south. Cowen is a significant intersection. TheCowen Center gas station with a market, animal hospital, offices, shops and […]
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CRMS graduates walk tall
Colorado Rocky Mountain School celebrated the graduating class of 2024 during a commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 8. Congratulations and here’s to each of your next chapters! Photos by Renee Ramge
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A call to action: Little Book Cliffs roundup
Opinion by Barbara Sophia Hiking through the Little Book Cliffs outside of Grand Junction, one is sometimes rewarded with viewing magnificent wild horses. They are strong, sure-footed, healthy and well-camouflaged by the rocks and landscape they call home. It’s early morning, barely raining as a light fog hangs over the valley. Beads of dew coat […]
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133, Dangerous as Designed : Jaywalking Pt. III
By Age-Friendly Carbondale According to Safe Kids Worldwide, half of all school zones in the U.S. have speed limits above 20 miles per hour — 30% lack marked crosswalks. Couple these ingredients with a considerable number of vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists near schools during student drop-off and pick-up times, and you have a recipe for […]
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133, Dangerous as Designed: Jaywalking, Part II
By Age-Friendly Carbondale In last week’s installment, we began a discussion of jaywalking. If pedestrians need to cross a street and the nearest safe crossing is three minutes away, most people will cross where it’s convenient. No amount of education or law enforcement will change this. Last week, we discussed the popular “jaywalk” crossing at […]
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‘A Great Wild Place’ and the community who stood up for it
By Will RoushWilderness Workshop Executive Director For the past 20 years, our community has dedicated itself to protecting the Thompson Divide. This issue has unified us like no other and inspired activism across generations, backgrounds, and political persuasions. It has shown in no uncertain terms that we have far more in common than we might […]
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133, Dangerous as Designed: Jaywalking –Pt. I
By Age-Friendly Carbondale The 2013 Access Control Plan for Highway 133 reads in part, “The Town is concerned with the lack of locations where they feel pedestrians/bicyclists can safely cross 133 from the east to the west and vice versa. With only three signalized intersections and long distances between these signals, the Town feels that […]
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133, Dangerous as Designed: Excessive speed
By Age-Friendly Carbondale Imagine driving into Carbondale from Highway 82. Just past the Cowen intersection a large, attractive sign arching overhead reads, “Welcome to Carbondale’s Bonedale Boulevard. Speed Limit – 25 mph.” Narrowing lanes, central planters, shrubbery along the curbs, pedestrian refuge islands, roundabouts and signalized, raised crosswalks every 600 feet (two city blocks) make […]
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Your fears are keeping you broke
By Megan Janssen Have you ever caught yourself graphically daydreaming your own demise? Plummeting down a flight of white-tiled stairs, getting side swiped by your neighbor’s Ford while taking the trash bin out, making one faulty step at the canyon’s edge, being at the exact spot an airplane door falls from the sky… A few […]
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Finding home in a dome
Kate CollinsGuest Contributor A nonprofit with deep Carbondale roots is advancing the green economy one tiny dome home at a time. Using their hearts, hands, brains and brawn in equal measure, In Our Hands has invented an inexpensive, replicable and low-carbon-impact process in which cellular concrete is poured into a form to create an 18-foot-diameter […]