Will Grandbois

A parable for the ages When Stage of Life Theatre Director Jennifer Johnson set out to adapt “Hope for the Flowers,” she wasn’t sure she’d be able to get permission from author Trina Paulus. After all, the 88-year-old had written just the one book back in the 70s, and her website hadn’t been updated in […]

Rabbits are not chickens — and that’s about the only consensus reached on the subject at the Feb. 25 town council meeting. The board was asked to reconsider the Town’s rabbit policy by rabbit farmer Matt Kennedy last year, and Trustee Erica Sparhawk accepted the task of drafting a new ordinance. Her proposal was based […]

John Graybill chokes up a bit when he talks about Chief Henry Red Cloud. Addressing a small crowd at Valley Fine Arts in Aspen on Feb. 15, the Buena Vista resident recalled his meeting with the great-great grandson of the original Red Cloud, who Graybill’s own great-grandfather, Edward Curtis, photographed in 1905. Both Red Clouds, […]

Just like its residents, Heritage Park Care Center wears its age well. A quiet presence on the end of Village Road since 1987, it has only become more essential as the town has grown around it and other senior care facilities have sprung up, “What I think makes our facility unique is the continuum of […]

After three meetings to discuss four similar proposals for Eighth Street multimodal and traffic calming planning, staff suggested Alta Planning and Design and trustees backed the play. “It was probably one of the hardest [proposal] reviews I’ve actually been through because things were so tight,” Public Works Director Kevin Schorzman told the board on Feb. […]

Lorena Garcia hopes to make history. She certainly stands out among the Democrats looking to unseat Senator Cory Gardner. A seventh-generation Coloradan on one side and a first-generation American on the other, her background is in community organizing and she and her wife Jaimi have been married for seven years. But she’s not content to […]

Right up until her passing on Jan. 28, Terry Chacos met adversity with laughter and a smile. That’s the first thing anyone mentions when talking about her, and the memory cut through the grief as her husband, Chris, and sons, Eric and Charlie, sat down to tell her story. Terry Lynn Fellers was born on […]

Locals and history buffs alike are excitedly awaiting The Marble Museum’s upcoming winter event, its “Winter Open House.” It takes place from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8. But first, the annual “Chocolate Extravaganza — Contest and Tasting” takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Marble Hub. People are encouraged to […]

Part-time residents may get some relief from Carbondale’s fledgling single hauler policy, but nobody’s getting off the hook altogether — at least for now. Trustees were scheduled to revisit the issue on Jan. 28, and had already received a proposed ordinance amendment from a resident who resents being charged for a service he doesn’t use. […]

The moral of this story is: if you take the day off to go skiing, you just might miss out on The Sopris Sun’s big taco competition. Sorry, Mi Casita, but by the time we found out you’d invoked the powder rule, we had already ordered takeout from seven other Carbondale-area restaurants and had a […]