The Colorado Mountain College (CMC) board of trustees held its first budget hearing for the 2024-2025 fiscal year at the Spring Valley campus on May 21. The budget’s executive summary listed several major accomplishments for the current fiscal year including: The executive summary also noted that the college completed its first year under the new […]
Lynn Burton
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Gem and Mineral Show returns to Marble
The Fourth Annual Marble Gem and Mineral Show returns to town with 15 vendors, free entertainment and more June 7 to 9. “When you step into the Marble Gem and Mineral Show, you enter a world of serendipity and magic,” as stated on the show’s website. “Our geology market brings together vendors, flintknappers, geologists, healers […]
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Dandelion Day draws a crowd
On Saturday, May 11, Carbondale held the 25th annual Dandelion Day in Sopris Park celebrating the environment, sustainability and community. Following the ever-popular Parade of Species, there were a plethora of joyous activities inside the park, from perusing vendor booths with starter plants, cut flowers and natural products to a seed swap, slow bike race […]
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Professional dishwashing: Perfect for today’s teens
The headline in an upvalley newspaper caught my eye. It said, “Students, now’s the time to secure a summer job.” Great idea, and here is a great summer job for teens: washing dishes in local restaurants. Dishwashing is a quickly learned skill that can follow teens for a lifetime if they need a job fast. […]
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Unexpected stuff to check out at the Library
You say your friends were looking forward to hearing you play “Life’s Been Good to Me So Far” on your ukulele at an upcoming party? You know the song by Joe Walsh, with lyrics that go, “My Maserati does 185. I lost my license, now I don’t drive?” But, you loaned your ukulele to a […]
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1990: Restroom stink stalled Miners Park project
The first paragraph in a 1990 Valley Journal newspaper article no doubt got most folks’ attention. It quoted Dean Harding asking Carbondale’s Board of Town Trustees: “Do you want your kids to have to watch me take a leak?”Harding’s remark came after some Crystal Village residents protested a planned $28,000 project at Miners Park that […]
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Sopris Lodge presents ‘Parkinson’s 101’ on April 4
Sopris Lodge at Carbondale hosts Jodi Brown, CEO of Parkinson Association of the Rockies, from 2 to 3pm on April 4. The presentation is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required as attendance will be limited. For details, call Chase Corte at 970-678-0057 or visit soprislodge.com/events Sopris Lodge is located at […]
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A tale of the last good real estate deal
Surmise to say, I might have snagged the last good real estate deal in Carbondale in 1987. It was a 7,200 square-foot residential building site in the old part of town — at 756 Sopris Avenue, to be precise — for $16,000 cash. By 1988, a developer offered me $20,000 for it. The south-facing lot […]
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Gray talks Carbondale history at the library
Sue Gray, museum director for the Carbondale Historical Society, will teach about the Town’s history at 6pm on March 11 and 25 at the Carbondale Library. The first talk, “The Early History of Carbondale,” is told from early entrepreneur William Dinkel’s perspective. “Our Gal Hattie: A Pioneer Woman’s History” is the title for the second […]
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Libraries Report: District pays for archivist
The Garfield County Public Library District (GCPLD) is providing funding to hire an archivist at the Glenwood Springs Historical Society and Frontier Museum. “We believe that this falls well within the mission of the library,” GCPLD Executive Director Jamie LaRue told The Sopris Sun in an email. “It also encourages collaboration among ‘memory’ institutions in […]