Roberta McGowan

Compassion is a word most people know and understand. But can compassion become part of everyone’s daily life? This weekend’s Compassion Film Festival and Symposium at the Third Street Center aims to answer that question. Subtitled “Celebration of Compassion in Action,” the festival combines workshops, films, discussion groups and seminars. All programs encourage festival attendees […]

Roaring Fork High School Physics Teacher Alisa Grimes is now working with U.S. Congressman Scott Tipton (CO-3) to advance the proposed “Teacher Are Leaders Act of 2019.” Tipton is co-sponsoring the bill in the House along with Colorado U.S. Senator Cory Gardner in the Senate. The bill supports an education development program geared toward improving […]

Josh Brooks, a 19-year-old with a bright future ahead of him, nearly lost it all while riding rough stock at the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo on June 27. The bull, Golden Bear, that Brooks had drawn, wasn’t going along with the rider’s hope for an eight-second time and a winning score. The rodeo chute swung […]