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The Sopris Sun is conducting a series of interviews with folks you may not have seen in the paper before – a sort of introduction to your neighbors. This week we caught up with Debi Boyle, the outgoing pantry manager at the Carbondale LIFT-UP food distribution center. Q: Where did you come from and how […]

The Carbondale Rural and Fire Protection District has a new team member. It can fly 1,500 feet high up to five miles away, detect heat and relay crystal-clear video, and can communicate with audio. No, Superman was not looking for a part-time retirement gig after relocating to River Valley Ranch. For $4,000, the District acquired […]

Garfield County Assessor Jim Yellico has been busy compiling a report for a July 15 presentation to the county commissioners. Now that his office has met the end-of-June deadline to respond to property valuation appeals, it’s time to share the data with his fellow elected officials. To be fair, there weren’t that many appeals. “Of […]

The times they are a changin’ in Carbondale’s local music scene. People spilled out onto the sidewalk outside Steve’s Guitars on June 21, which marked Pearl & Wood’s last performance — in Colorado, anyway. “Ellie and I, we’re scheming up a tour in California in November, so it’s not the ‘end, the end,’” said Natalie […]

Artists in many ways wield superpowers, maintains Andrew Simonet. He just wishes more of them felt empowered to use those powers outside the studio. “They have the ability to manifest something out of nothing,” he said. “To imagine something that doesn’t exist … that’s a complicated skillset.” And yet, many artists struggle to make ends […]

Emergency preparedness in schools is a sensitive topic since the advent of school shootings. We want our children and community to be prepared, but what are the potential costs. When some of us were young that safety plan was mainly fire drills. However, in today’s world, schools must prepare for worst-case scenarios. It would be […]

Mayor Dan Richardson worried the final decision to pursue an AARP Age-Friendly Community designation for Carbondale might prove anticlimactic due to sheer lack of opposition, but the cheers and applause from a room full of seniors demonstrated otherwise. The push was just part of multiple efforts by the Carbondale Age-Friendly Community Initiative (CAFCI) to boost […]