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By John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent Carbondale’s trustees on Tuesday night formally joined into a public-private partnership this week with an organization planning to build a 30-unit apartment building in the Dolores Way neighborhood in northwest Carbondale, which is intended to help fill the region’s need for affordable rental housing. As part of the deal […]

Long-term CARE pets ready for adoption By Amy Hadden Marsh Soopris Sun Contributor “You can drink a cup of coffee while taking him for a walk.” That’s how Noah Baskin, Canine Behavior and Enrichment Specialist at Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE), describes Burt, a Blue Nose pit bull, one of fourteen dogs housed at the shelter. […]

By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff Recently, Bridges High School Principal Lyn Bair had been considering retiring from the position she’s held for 15 years. Instead, when the new school year begins in August, she’ll be occupying a new office at Roaring Fork High School. “[Superintendent] Rob [Stein] and I had talked about me retiring […]

By Justin Patrick Sopris Sun Correspondent Today’s active lifestyle consumer market is “so happening, bro,” as the saying goes. Gone are the simple days when a few companies like North Face and Patagonia supplied the world’s gear to what was then considered the nuttier segment of society, those who were ditching the standard 9-to-5 jobs […]

If you’ve ever walked the Coal Basin Trail in Redstone, you can still see the imprints left by the Mid-Continent Resources and its mining operations from decades ago. You certainly wouldn’t think the neighboring land belongs to the family behind Walmart. Crystal Basin Holdings LLC, owned by cousins Sam and Tom Walton, claims the last […]

Filmmaker Sylvia Johnson calls Carbondale home, but while she grew up in the Valley, she was born in Bolivia and has had addresses in several countries in Latin and South America. Her family — her father worked in international development and her mother in women’s healthcare — moved to Carbondale when she was 12 years […]

When Daniele Treves came to the Roaring Fork Valley to work at the marble quarry, he didn’t expect to find a host of last names from his home back in the Aosta Valley of Northern Italy. He soon learned, however, that the majority of the early families to stake claims in the area were Italian, […]

Raindrops splatter on the water surface and the soft bounce of the bobber skimming along with the ribboning flow. At first, you are aware of the other people fishing in these same waters. Keeping your breathing steady and even, you get your weight evenly distributed with your feet nestled into a flat place between the […]

Perry Will likes his new job. After four decades with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Will — a Republican and resident of New Castle — was appointed last winter as representative of Colorado’s 57th District, serving Garfield, Rio Blanco, and Moffat counties. “It’s been a good transition from my former life to go over to the […]