Stuff by Will Grandbois

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published May. 3, 2023

  Sampling some simple salads

  Josh Ixtuc of Ming’s crafted our favorite simple salad, just ahead of Peppino’s and White House Pizza. Photo by Will Grandbois

  Since soup and salad often go together, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that Ming’s Cafe just pulled off the first repeat victory in our taste test series. The Asian eatery’s coconut chicken soup was a hit with last year’s soup tasting panel, and their house salad was roundly… read more →

• Locations: Fiction, Opinion Published Nov. 16, 2022

  Work in Progress - Nov. 17, 2022

  Photo courtesy of Shelly Bergerhouse Merriam

  The Beautiful Sandwich
  Shelly Bergerhouse Merriam 
  February 19, 2021
  Glenwood Springs

  She could always make
  the most beautiful sandwich.
  A loving memory
  of her Emporia, Kansas college…

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• Locations: Letters, Opinion Published Nov. 16, 2022

  Letters - Nov. 17, 2022

  Near New, old story
  I came to Carbondale in 1961 with my husband who was hired to teach at Colorado Rocky Mountain School, a fledgling college preparatory school founded on the Bar Fork Ranch in 1953. Salaries were skimpy and we depended on the Near New… read more →

• Locations: Columns, Opinion Published Nov. 9, 2022

  Book Review: "Yellow Bird"

  

  By Izzy Stringham 
  White River Books

  When a young oil worker named Kristopher Clarke went missing from the Fort Berthold Reservation oil fields in North Dakota in 2012, Lissa Yellow Bird, a Native American woman with no connection to Clarke, decided to find… read more →

• Locations: Obituaries Published Nov. 9, 2022

  Obituary: Jerry Overton, June 21, 1943 - Nov. 1, 2022

  

  Jerry Donald Overton, 79, passed on Nov. 1, 2022 in Montrose. Jerry was born on June 21, 1943 to George L. and Lucille Baldwin Overton in Memphis, Tennessee. He had two sisters, Barbara and Nell (deceased), and two brothers, William and James (deceased).

  Jerry grew up… read more →

• Locations: Fiction, Opinion Published Nov. 9, 2022

  Work in Progress - Nov. 9, 2022

  Cactus art by Chris Brandt, created at Drawing Club. The Roaring Fork Drawing Club meets weekly on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. Their next gathering, on Nov. 15 will be in partnership with Seed Peace at Craft Coffeehouse. Artists will be invited to draw the squash that will be auctioned off for the Seed Peace fundraising event on the following Thursday. Courtesy art

  Your creativity counts
  By Just Jim

  It’s on the wall
  Down Main Street
  Everywhere you look
  Creativity abounds

  Carbondale, Glenwood
  And beyond… read more →

• Locations: Letters, Opinion Published Nov. 9, 2022

  Letters - Nov. 9, 2022

  Re: Craig nuclear plant 
  It’s too bad that some local powers are focusing on nuclear reactors to replace the Craig Station power plant instead of energy storage. One of the rationales for nuclear power is that it provides baseload electric supply. But many energy nerds… read more →

• Locations: Columns, Opinion Published Oct. 26, 2022

  Fake is for fiction

  Dominic Furer

  Opinion by Dominic Furer
  Youth Correspondent 

  Ah, Halloween…A day to dress up; a day to become someone you aren’t; a day of partying and taking on a different form. I always enjoyed Halloween as a child, mostly for the candy and the opportunity to run around at…

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• Locations: Fiction, Opinion Published Oct. 26, 2022

  Work in Progress: Oct. 27, 2022

  Art by Sofie Koski

  Wendy Moore
  By Bob Schultz

  School servant leader
  Director of thespians
  Bravo Wendy Moore!

   

  End of the Leaves
  By Jampa 

  Leaves, most fallen down
  Follow me in on my shoes
  Crunching under foot.

   

  Ahhh…Fall
  By…

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• Locations: Columns, Opinion Published Oct. 19, 2022

  Going, but not gone

  Miss Moon (Amy Kimberly). Photo courtesy of Renee Ramge

  Fall is a time of transition, so it only makes sense that my impending transition would happen during this season. There is no easy journey to times of change. Our trees grow green with foliage in the spring but traverse a wide range of weather, fire, wind and rain… read more →