By Michael LemmerSeptember 2025 Summer slowly slouches away. You can feel it. The days are getting shorter. The nights are getting longer. There’s the whisper of a chill in the air. The Summer of 2025 is Spent. Happy Equinox! Time slip-sliding away — Like The Sands In An Hourglass. Before you know it, the trees […]
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The greatest gift
By Raleigh BurleighCarbondale For weeks ahead of Burning Man, I frequented the Carbondale Bike Project to tune up a couple bicycles (one purchased there) for myself and my girlfriend to cruise Black Rock City. A bike I had been gifted needed serious work, and even after rebuilding the crank shaft and packing the back axle […]
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Carbondale Treasure Hunt
The treasure vault awaits the clever mind, who reads the clues and seeks to find. Before each First Friday’s celebration starts, this treasure will be hidden in Carbondale’s heart. Through Main Street’s charm and gallery halls, past murals bright on building walls. The treasure waits where artists gather, where community bonds grow ever stronger. So, […]
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Works in Progress – Aug. 28, 2025
‘Goats on the Go’Photos & text by Jane BachrachCarbondale If you haven’t seen the 275 environmentally-friendly weed eaters stationed along County Road 100 (Catherine Store Road) outside of Carbondale, they’ll be here for about three more weeks, that is unless it snows. Snow is baaaad for goats so they may have to leave early. Chances […]
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Works in Progress – Aug. 21, 2025
I Am A Town By Lisa Dancing-LightCarbondale I am a town where people say “Hi” on the street.I am a town where people come together to meet. I am a town with the best places to eat.I am a town where you can buy local “Grass-fed Beef.” I am a town with ranchers and hikers.I am a […]
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Works in Progress – Aug. 14, 2025
Country CousinsFred Malo Jr. Carbondale Not having the foresight to get married and raise children, I got exactly what I deserved. I’ve become a 76-year-old with no immediate family. What I do have is a bevy of first cousins on or near the Camas Prairie in north central Idaho. Each year I travel to the […]
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Baron von LingenhovenBy Golda Wolfe This is an excerpt from an unpublished novel. All Rights Reserved. No use without permission. Baron Eric von Lingenhoven bought the chalet in the Engadine when its rocks were splotched in bright lichen, attesting to their undisturbed age. Inside, von Lingenhoven breathed the fragrance of sap that sweetly seeped from […]
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Carbondale Treasure Hunt 3
The treasure vault awaits the clever mind, who reads the clues and seeks to find. Before each First Friday’s celebration starts, this treasure will be hidden in Carbondale’s heart. Through Main Street’s charm and gallery halls, past murals bright on building walls. The treasure waits where artists gather, where community bonds grow ever stronger. So, […]
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‘Bonedale’ excerpt: FlickerBy Patrick Kitson Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Patrick Kitson’s new collection of short stories, “Bonedale.” Born and raised in the Roaring Fork Valley, Kitson coined the term “Valley Horror” in reference to his particular brand of homebrewed speculative fiction which largely takes place in and around the snowy climes […]
