In what was billed as a school-wide romp, on May 24 the students of Roaring Fork High School went all out for “Rams Day,” a day fi lled with volunteer work in the morning, fun and games in the afternoon. Some recipients of the volunteer effort were the Heritage Park Care Center, the Carbondale Clay […]
John Colson
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City signs Red Hill Lofts agreement
By John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent Carbondale’s trustees on Tuesday night formally joined into a public-private partnership this week with an organization planning to build a 30-unit apartment building in the Dolores Way neighborhood in northwest Carbondale, which is intended to help fill the region’s need for affordable rental housing. As part of the deal […]
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Pages of the Past
From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal and The Sopris Sun May 31, 1979 The cover of this week’s edition of The Valley Journal showed a front-on image of a horse and rider jumping over an assembly of old wooden cable spools, with the cutline declaring, “Equestriennes from throughout the area gathered at […]
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Scuttlebutt
Night at the Castle The Sopris Sun would like to remind those interested that two overnight suites are still available for the night of our Aug. 12 fundraiser featuring pianist John Robin Sutherland, former principal pianist for the San Francisco Symphony. The cost of the suites is $1,000 (half of which is tax deductible), which […]
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Help The Sun rise through the Summer Solstice
In this edition of The Sopris Sun, we kick off our Spring 2019 fundraising campaign in the midst of celebrating our 10th year of providing news, views and other information about Carbondale — the town where we rose out of the ashes of the old Valley Journal to keep the idea of local journalism alive […]
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Our Town: John Ackerman
The Sopris Sun is conducting a series of interviews with folks you may not have seen in the paper before – a sort of introduction to your neighbors. This week, we caught up with John Ackerman, who recently became a massage therapist after more than 30 years working for Ackerman Log and Timber first under […]
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Support The Sun through the Solstice
Next month, December of 2018, marks the 10-year anniversary of the demise of The Valley Journal commercial weekly newspaper, after more than four decades of serving Carbondale and the middle region of the Roaring Fork Valley. Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the VJ (as it was known), The Sopris Sun was conceived […]
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Our Town: Letty Gomez
The Sopris Sun is conducting a series of interviews with folks you may not have seen in the paper before – a sort of introduction to your neighbors. This week we caught up with Leticia (Letty) Gomez, who works as a cashier at the Bonfire coffee house on Main Street and was hostess (along with […]
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Your donations directly improve the paper
At just over the halfway point through calendar year 2018, and heading toward our 10th birthday, our valiant, little, nonprofit newspaper is well on its way to meeting its ambitious fundraising goal of $41,500, thanks in large part to an $8,400 donation by the Sopris 100 Who Care group (as reported in a prior edition […]