It was all on the line for the Roaring Fork High School girls 4×800 relay team at the Montrose Invitational on Saturday, May 10. The “last chance” meet was their final shot at qualifying for the 3A State Track and Field Championships. The team, senior Isabella Moon, junior Caroline Cole, sophomore Sadie Silcox and freshman […]
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Basalt Report: Divided council passes short-term rental fee
Over the past two months, Basalt Town Council has been discussing a hotly contested ordinance that would establish a fee on short-term rentals (STRs) in order to generate funding to address the affordable housing crisis in Basalt. After several public hearings and despite continued pushback from the community, as well as divided outlooks among council […]
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GarCo Report: Positive library vibes, landfill gas, wolf study confusion
The best recipe for a short meeting is a short agenda, and that’s just what the Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) served up on Monday. But, first the public comments. John Mallonee of the Garfield County Library District Board of Trustees offered an update on general library news, making it clear that he was not representing […]
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RFTA Report: CEO shares internal reports and responds to public comment
The May 8 Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) board meeting focused on presenting results from internal monitoring reports and updates. The meeting was hosted at its usual location: Carbondale Town Hall, with some attendees online. RFTA CEO Kurt Ravenschlag presented several internal reporting methods for tracking how well the organization interacts with the public and […]
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Judy Merritt Pratt Welch
April 28, 1930 – March 14, 2025 Judy Merritt Pratt Welch of Carbondale, Colorado, passed away peacefully on March 14, 2025, at Heritage Park. Judy was born April 28, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to Colonel Merritt Pratt and Juanita (Mitchell) Pratt. Judy was married to the late Walter Welch for almost 40 years before his […]
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SoL’s summer stock sets the social stage
SoL Theatre Company is preparing to showcase a slew of summer productions. The youth theater nonprofit, which hosts multiple camps and other programming throughout the year, will produce Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins,” John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Cabaret” and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “The Sound of Music,” all of which involve themes of resistance […]
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Edie Carey brings comforting songs to Steve’s Guitars
On May 16, singer-songwriter Edie Carey will make her Steve’s Guitars debut as she performs in Carbondale for the first time. Based in Colorado Springs and having been influenced by a plethora of singer-songwriters in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois, Carey brings a sound all her own to the genre of folk which is sure […]
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Carbondale Report: Undergrounding powerlines tops Tuesday’s agenda
After a couple of weeks without a meeting, the Carbondale trustees returned to a packed agenda. All were in attendance minus Colin Laird. The approved consent agenda included meeting minutes from April 22, event permits for the Carbondale Bike Project and Thunder River Theatre Company, liquor license renewals for Beijin Tokyo and Izakaya, outdoor seating […]
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First-ever Colorado Youth Climate Summit hosted in Carbondale
From May 2 to 3, Wild Rose Education, the Carbondale-based environmental education and action organization, hosted Colorado’s first-ever youth climate summit, bringing together 75 young people from across the state to the Third Street Center. During the two-day summit, students from the Front Range to Durango, and nearly everywhere in between, partook in activities and […]
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Conservationists raise alarm about endangered black-footed ferret
The black-footed ferret is hard to find. That wasn’t always the case. The species is endemic to North America, and in the early 1900s was commonly found in the Great Plains and semi-arid grassland habitats across the American West. A century ago, the population was estimated in the millions. By the 1970s, the carnivorous rodent […]