By Omar Sarabia Defiende Nuestra Tierra The long winter has ended and, little by little, spring is arriving with sunny and warm days. You can see plants blooming, hear birds singing and grasses are getting greener every day. It’s a beautiful time to explore the incredible public lands that are all around us! Spring also […]
Will Grandbois
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Trail Notes returns for 2022 season
By Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers staff We live in a special place, but it’s the people that make our region truly unique. The outdoors culture that’s so central to our lifestyle — and so exciting to visitors — only begins with hiking, biking, rafting or fishing. Simply put, there’s a difference between being a trail-user […]
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Work in Progress: April 21, 2022
The Sopris Sun introduces the Work in Progress section which serves to highlight the ample creativity among the local community. Submissions are swept with an exceptionally light edit to preserve the creators intended voice and style. The Story-Teller and his Dog By Tom Mercer My Uncle Carl was a story-teller. Carl lived in a small […]
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Affordable housing shouldn’t have to take a miracle
Benjamin Waddell Writers on the Range Residents of the Westside Mobile Home Park in Durango, in southern Colorado, called it a miracle. They are under contract to buy the land their homes sit on, their rent will not go up and they proved that the housing cooperative they’d founded had staying power. Westside’s fate was […]
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Scuttlebutt/Community Calendar – April 14, 2022
SCUTTLEBUTT Avian Flu Nearly an entire flock of chickens (35 out of 36) died on a ranch in Pitkin County. The lone survivor was later euthanized. While there are reports the infected flock was in the Crystal Valley, Pitkin County would not confirm a general location with The Sopris Sun stating, “Per the USDA [United […]
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Eleanor Katherine Gardner Wagner
March 28, 1932 – March 22, 2022 Eleanor Katherine “Kate” (Gardner) Wagner, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, went to be with her Lord and Savior on March 22. She was six days short of celebrating her 90th birthday in Big Timber, Minnesota with her identical twin sister, Ellen Arlian. Kate was […]
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Joan Hollingsworth
Oct. 29, 1947 – March 18, 2022 Joan was fast-tracked to heaven on March 18; finally free from the pain that had plagued her for the last several years. She was the oldest child of six, born to Dale and Phyllis Hollingsworth. Joan was born in Ontario, Oregon, living with her family in eastern Oregon […]
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Capstone projects yield diverse connections
By Nannette Weinhold Capstone Site Coordinator Students at Roaring Fork High School recently completed their year-long senior capstone projects this week. Here are some highlights! A “capstone” is an independent, student-led endeavor that provides opportunities for graduating seniors to learn something new, pursue a passion and extend their knowledge. The past few years have been […]
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Unified for the Thompson Divide, over a decade in
This past week, I was in Carbondale. I live along the Crystal River, right at the base of the Thompson Divide, so a trip into Carbondale isn’t all that uncommon. But I was making a special trip — one to pick up a new “Unified for Thompson Divide” yard sign from Wilderness Workshop. My old […]
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Chicken soup for the Carbondalian soul
Let’s get this out of the way: we’re not just talking about chicken noodle soup. In fact, we couldn’t find anywhere that serves the classic on a regular basis — the practical limits of our taste test (sorry, Jaffa). So, unlike our burger and taco competitions which sought to compare very similar dishes, our only […]