For February, Black History Month, Sopris Sun illustrator Larry Day highlights an influential African American each week, accompanied by an illustration. This is the final installment of the 2025 series. One of the essential priorities for a children’s picture book is it’s got to be something that a child would love over and over and […]
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Conservative play for library board worries former librarian
On Thursday, Feb. 27, the Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) will listen for a second time to candidates for the Glenwood Springs position on the Garfield County Library Board of Trustees. And Jocelyn Durrance, who served as a trustee representing Carbondale for five years, is worried. “I think there is a group within Garfield County who […]
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RFHS baseball jacket fundraiser pays homage to Carbondale’s ranching heritage
Roaring Fork High School’s baseball team rosters over the decades have often read like a who’s-who of Carbondale ranching families. So, it seemed fitting for baseball mom and rancher Cassie Cerise to come up with a way to honor that ranching heritage with this coming season’s Rams baseball fundraiser. Team members have been out and […]
Posted inYouth News
Leaders of tomorrow to address climate solutions
Carbondale’s Wild Rose Education is directing the first annual Colorado Youth Climate Summit at the Third Street Center, May 2-3, and is “powered’ by Lyra Colorado, according to Sarah Johnson, founder of Wild Rose Education. Many climate action and justice experts from governmental and non-governmental organizations will lead engaging workshops and plenary talks with participating […]
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Aspen Hope Center expands mental health support in schools
Aspen Hope Center (AHC) continues to expand its programs that help bridge the gap in accessible mental health services through collaboration with schools to help support some of the Valley’s most vulnerable youth and individuals. AHC started in 2009 and focuses on three key aspects of mental health response: prevention, intervention and postvention. One of […]
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Library Report: Public and board remain at odds, LaRue suggests building trust
Members of the public were widely divided in terms of the opinions they brought to the Garfield County Public Library District’s (GCPLD) Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, Feb. 6. After the appointment of board members Stephanie Hirsch and Brit McLin in December, the board’s February meeting was dominated by a push from the public […]
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Riverview’s daily student news broadcast bonds bilingual school community
Editor’s note: Only the first names of some of the students mentioned in this story are being used at the request of Riverview School. A family trip to visit the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C. didn’t deter seventh grader Lois Brooks from being part of the daily student newscast at Riverview School on Feb. 6. […]
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From Nantes and back again
On Jan. 18, 17 high school students from Lycée Nelson Mandela — a school in Nantes, France — arrived in Carbondale. However, these French students were not here for purely a personal vacation. Rather, they came here as part of Roaring Fork High School’s (RFHS) Carbondale-Nantes 2025 Exchange, a program put on by English Language […]
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Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar kicks off Winter Words discussing creativity in the age of AI
The doors shut. The lights dropped, save for a single spotlight on a podium at the side of the stage. A slender tuxedo-clad figure emerged out of the audience into that spare brightness. It was not immediately clear whether the first words spoken were from William H. Macy as a local arts enthusiast or as […]
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Declining enrollment in Valley schools part of a broader trend; districts planning mitigation
Secondary education schools are experiencing a balloon effect: deflation. Enrollment hasn’t increased dramatically in recent years, but numbers were slowly growing. That is starting to change, and local school districts are preparing for what smaller student numbers will mean moving forward. The Sopris Sun spoke with Roaring Fork School District (RFSD) and Aspen School District […]