The combined Glenwood Springs Demons girls swim team, which includes student-athletes from Roaring Fork High School, concluded its season with several members representing at the 3A State Swimming and Diving Championships in Thornton Feb. 13-14. The top individual finisher for the team was sophomore Sylvia Duchscher, who placed fifth in the 100 Freestyle event with […]
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Defying limits: Austria’s Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner to speak about climbing the world’s tallest mountains
On Feb. 24, Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House hosts a speaker who will turn the audience’s attention to the heights. Not just any heights: specifically, 8,000 meters, the 14 tallest mountains in the world. She is Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, one of the only women to have climbed the planet’s tallest mountains, and the first woman to have […]
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GarCo Report: Focus on animals and at-risk teens
Yampah Mountain High School and Colorado River BOCES staff struck gold at Tuesday’s Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting. They asked for $25,000 from the national opioid settlement funds for an on-site intervention counselor. These funds are a result of 2021/2022 national opioid settlements resolving opioids litigation brought by state and local governments against manufacturers, distributors […]
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RFTA Report: Legislative strategy, new midday Hogback route and e-bike safety
This month’s Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) meeting focused on reviewing the organization’s legislative agenda. Board members also considered lease amendments for the Brush Creek Park & Ride, and CEO Kurt Ravenschlag covered several regional updates. During board comments, Erin Zalinski of Glenwood Springs shared that she had attended a mayor’s meeting in Parachute and […]
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CMC partners with CSU Global to create new pathways for graduate school
Creating yet another clear pathway for rural mountain community members to achieve new heights, Colorado Mountain College (CMC) has recently announced a new partnership with Colorado State University Global. As part of the CSU system, CSU Global is the first 100% online and institutionally accredited public university in the United States. Designed for working adults […]
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Finding that spark at the Crystal
Apparently, everyone looking for love is tired of the apps, because the No Swipe Social interactive dating game, hosted at the Crystal Theatre on Feb. 12, completely sold out. Fresh suitors and contestants rotated for four rounds, culminating in a winning pair at the end of the night. From fun lines of questioning to riotous […]
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Swords to plowshares, turning weapons into tools
On Sunday, Feb. 15, the Western Slope Mennonite Fellowship hosted a book preview and blacksmith demonstration at Bethel Chapel in Glenwood Springs , where a crowd of participants took turns slowly transforming a gun into a garden tool. At the forge was Mike Martin, heating and turning a gunstock barrel, instructing participants where and how […]
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Spring GulchAn afternoon of rain and fog at Spring Gulch on Feb. 12 diminished the thin base of snow, prompting a cautionary closure. If the next storm brings sufficient snowpack, the course will reopen. “In the meantime: go to the car wash, sleep with a spoon under your pillow and make a few sacrifices to […]
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The Art Base displays ‘Creative Destruction’
On Feb. 6, The Art Base in Basalt debuted its current exhibition, “Creative Destruction,” featuring a collaboration between Carbondale artists Michael Stout and Lindsay Jones working under a shared pseudonym: Also Known As. During the artist talk on Feb. 7, Stout and Jones discussed their respective processes for pieces in the mixed-media show with a […]
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Writer Susan Orlean never imagined doing anything else
Susan Orlean cuts a slight but certain figure. When she and moderator Christine Benedetti took the Paepcke Auditorium stage on Jan. 28, no one in the audience could doubt that Orlean enjoys a good conversation. That was how she passed the next hour: Cheerful chatting about her years as a features journalist and her newest […]