While having surveying done 41 years ago prior to building our home in the Crystal Valley, the surveyors showed us a map of the area from the 1880s. It indicated […]
Paige Meredith
Mutt & Jeff: Where has sacred honor gone?
We sometimes ask: “Have you read anything good lately?” A wise piece of advice I read lately in a magazine’s book review section suggested that for every modern book we […]
Mutt & Jeff: ‘Oh, sure — that’s your opinion’
It registered with me recently that this section of The Sopris Sun is reserved for “opinion”, and I realized that this is a pretty weak word. What follows is an […]
Mutt & Jeff: Oh, for the good old days
While driving Highway 82 either in the morning or evening hours and seeing the Denver-like traffic I am astounded by the way our local valleys have changed. My parents described […]
Can’t afford health insurance?
I’m sure that we’ve all seen news reports of natural or manmade disasters in which people have lost virtually everything they own, but who declare that the most important thing […]
Mutt & Jeff: Who started it?
For over two months, I have been silently agitated by a previous column in The Sopris Sun. I agreed with many of the thoughts by the writer concerning the lack […]
Mutt & Jeff: I pledge allegiance to…?
I definitely agree with Nicole Toussaint’s column in the Sept. 20-26 Sopris Sun in which she lamented the fact that large numbers of Americans “are deeply uninformed” when it comes […]
Mutt & Jeff: Nimbyism — a great American tradition?
Two recent occasions sparked my interest in the subject of nimbyism. First was a letter to the editor of a valley newspaper written by no less than a former Aspen […]
Learning from the past
Perhaps a few old timers will remember this incident from a reprint of a 1951 Rocky Mountain News article concerning the Crystal River Valley; and perhaps some newer residents will […]
Mutt & Jeff: Absolutes? Absolutely!
First off, thanks to editor Will Grandbois for seeing the need and allowing for a different voice than we usually see in The Sopris Sun. Consequently, we now have Mutt […]