Paige Meredith

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]