Carbondale trustees made considerable progress during a work session on Jan. 18 toward a solution to limit the proliferation of short-term rentals (STR) within town limits, while taking into account primary residents that rely on income generated by the model. Close to 90 attendees joined the meeting, both online and in-person. It began with a […]
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Basalt Town Council signs off on new micro bus service
In its first regular meeting of 2022, Basalt Town Council approved a resolution to ratify, continue and declare a local disaster emergency due to COVID-19. “Here we go again,” said Town Manager Ryan Mahoney. Tuesday night’s passage of the measure was unanimous and, for public health reasons, required that meetings be virtual until the disaster […]
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Trustees dive into new pool prospects
The first regular meeting of the Board of Town Trustees (BOTT) in the new year saw the full board in attendance, masked and in-person. With the exception of one item, the consent agenda was approved with little discussion. This included accounts payable with approved community grants, authorization for the town clerk to appoint municipal election […]
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School quarantines take a toll
The first hour of the Garfield Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting on Monday, Jan. 10, was taken up by one public comment item not on the agenda: school quarantines. Jill Edinger is a parent of three. She appeared with two other parents of children who attend St. Stephens Catholic School in Glenwood Springs. Edinger […]
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River Bridge understands that talking can help
Children treated for sexual abuse at the River Bridge Regional Center (RBRC) in Glenwood Springs surpassed 250 in 2021. That’s ten times more kids than were seen by the child advocacy organization in 2020 and about three times the number treated when RBRC opened its doors in 2007, according to Executive Director Blythe Chapman. “There […]
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GOCO grant boosts RFOV prospects
In early December 2021, Basalt-based Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) announced that it had received a $298,490 grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), the state-run agency that invests money from the Colorado Lottery in a variety of environment- and outdoors-related projects throughout the state. It was the largest single grant to RFOV in its 26-year […]
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You can take our bags but not our bingo
From the archives of The Valley Journal and Sopris Sun Jan. 21, 1982 Carbondale Trustees approved a $3.5 million Industrial Revenue Bond (IRB) to support the construction of a strip mall at the southwest corner of Main Street and Highway 133. The so-called “Mall at Roaring Fork” would feature a 23,000 square-foot Circle Supers grocery […]
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Scholarships open doors for RFHS seniors
The doors of opportunity opened wide for two Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) seniors, Yahjairi Castillon and Omar Gomez Rodriguez, who were each awarded full four-year QuestBridge National College Match Scholarships. QuestBridge is a national nonprofit that connects exceptional youth from low-income families with leading colleges. In 2020, they received 16,500 applications from across the […]