At its Sept. 18 board meeting, Garfield County commissioners received a preview of a draft report by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Region 3 staff on suggested safety improvements to Cottonwood Pass, the rural county road that links Gypsum in Eagle County with CO Highway 82 in the Roaring Fork Valley. The draft report, […]
Ken Pletcher
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ValleyOrtho introduces new pain treatment
This summer, ValleyOrtho announced that Tomas Pevny, MD, had begun using an analgesic technique with the trade name iovera° to treat pain associated with total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. ValleyOrtho, based at Valley View Hospital (VVH) in Glenwood Springs, also has branch clinics in Aspen, Willits, Eagle and Silt. Dr. Pevny, who has been an […]
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Jane Goodall visits RFHS
Students and faculty at Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale were treated to an extraordinary and rare opportunity on Tuesday, Sept. 12, when world-renowned anthropologist, ethologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall spoke there at a morning assembly. It was part of a two-day visit to the Valley that included a talk in Aspen the night […]
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Carbondale, CLEER launch Home Energy Score pilot program
On Aug. 4, the Town of Carbondale, in conjunction with Carbondale-based Clean Energy Economy for the Region (CLEER), announced that it was undertaking a pilot program utilizing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Home Energy Score (HES) rubric. The program is offering free energy checkups for 100 residences in the town. Once completed, the results will […]
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Letter from Michigan, 2023
Greetings again, Sunscribers et al, from our little corner of southwestern Michigan! During our years of coming here, we have gotten to know some of the communities around us. One nearby is the charming little village of Three Oaks. I came to realize that it has a lot of similarities to Carbondale, despite having only […]
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Un nuevo tratamiento en Valley View ofrece a hombres nuevas posibilidades
Traducción por Dolores Duarte Era una magnífica oportunidad que él no podía dejar pasar. Todd Chamberlin había sido invitado a llenar una vacante de última hora para un viaje en balsa de ocho días en junio de 2022, por el Parque nacional del Gran Cañón. Aun así, el director ejecutivo de The Sopris Sun dudó. […]
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Holy Cross rate restructuring sparks controversy
On March 1, Holy Cross Energy (HCE) informed its customers that the Glenwood Springs-based cooperative’s electricity-rate structure was being significantly modified. The first round of the new rates, which are to be rolled out over a period of three years, are set to take effect starting Sept. 1. In addition to an overall increase in […]
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New treatment at Valley View gives men new hope
It was a terrific opportunity he really couldn’t pass up. Todd Chamberlin had been invited to fill a last-minute spot on an eight-day raft trip in June 2022 through Grand Canyon National Park. Yet, The Sopris Sun’s executive director hesitated. For several years, he had been suffering from urinary issues. “The doctor thought I had […]
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Wilderness medicine app fills a needed niche
In 2021, Kaen (“Call me ‘kl.’”) Lapides faced a crossroads in her life. The longtime Breckenridge-based ski patroller, emergency medical technician (EMT), backcountry ski and hiking guide and wilderness medicine educator was unable to do any of her usual activities. She was laid up from a back injury, and the COVID pandemic, then at its […]
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CSQ strikes ‘gold’ in Marble
In the fall of 2022, Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc. (CSQ) announced in a newsletter the discovery of a special type of gold-veined white marble at its Pride of America Quarry (formerly Colorado Yule Marble Quarry) just south of the town of Marble. It was the latest in a series of developments at the quarry since […]