The families who call the Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park home are being lauded for their “can-do” perseverance, leading to yet another likely success story in the push toward resident-owned parks in the Roaring Fork Valley. After an extensive fundraising effort over the course of just a few months earlier this year, residents of the […]
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Living ground: The biocrust of Red Hill
Red Hill CouncilPublic Service Announcement Before you take your next step on Red Hill, look down. That bumpy, dark crust beneath your feet might be thousands of years old. It’s called biological soil crust, or “biocrust” for short, and it’s a living skin over the soil made of cyanobacteria, lichen, moss and fungi working together. […]
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Bear necessities
It’s no secret, this summer the bears are extra active in towns throughout the state. So far, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) have received over three-thousand reports of bear activity across Colorado. Conflicts between humans and bears have risen due to drought conditions, causing the bears to source water and food closer to residential and […]
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Glenwood Report: Council votes 6-1 to pursue legal action against ICE facility landlord
A packed house greeted the Glenwood Springs City Council at its Aug. 6 regular meeting, as citizen activists lined up demanding, again, that the City take enforcement action against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in West Glenwood. Council ultimately voted 6-1 to file suit in Colorado District Court against ICE’s private […]
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Marble Report: Mixed-use zoning, part two
The centerpiece of August’s Board of Trustees meeting was the second public hearing on a proposal to create a mixed-use corridor through Marble. On the heels of an executive session to discuss ongoing negotiations with Marble Water Company, Mayor Ryan Vinciguerra outlined the fundamentals of the proposal to the30-or-so people present, many of whom had […]
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Carbondale Report: Trustees choose Town Center developer
Carbondale is one step closer to fulfilling a commercial and residential need that it says the free market cannot. The Carbondale Board of Trustees on Tuesday selected workforce housing developer Bond/Brookside to build the Town Center project, a residential and commercial design set to be constructed on 1.4 acres of town-owned land surrounding the Thunder […]
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Basalt Report: Contested Southside development moves forward
An application for the construction of a residential and commercial storage development at 555 Basalt Ave. has, after many alterations at the behest of Town Council, been approved for a second reading and public hearing on Aug. 25. After an hour of deliberation on Tuesday, the council approved the application on first reading by a […]
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‘Privileges have become rights,’ Vallario says of state jail standards
Two of the three commissioners were present for the Monday, Aug. 11, Garfield Board of County Commissioners meeting, with the exception of Commissioner Mike Samson. Dale Whittington, a resident impacted by the flooding on Peach Valley Road, inquired about financial relief. He estimated the cost, including dump fees, would come out to about $20,000. “It’s […]
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Washington discusses protecting McClure Pass
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet testified on July 15 before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining in support of the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection (GORP) Act. This marked the first time the bipartisan bill — designed to protect over 730,000 acres of public land just over McClure Pass — […]
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Author of bestseller about a historic shipwreck to do live podcast at TACAW
In July 1831, the whaleship Mentor set off from New Bedford, Massachusetts, with 22 aboard. The sailors traveled the Atlantic to the Azores and down the coast of Africa, rounding the Cape of Good Hope. In March they crossed the Indian Ocean to Timor, Indonesia, and then headed toward whaling grounds in the western Pacific. […]