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 […]
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Valley View’s High Risk Breast Clinic expands early detection
Brigid O’Holleran, MD grew up in Western Nebraska, where she also underwent her medical training at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine. Since January, she has served as the oncological surgeon and medical director at Valley View’s Breast Center. She moved from Durango with her family, all of whom enjoy the outdoor recreation opportunities […]
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Mountain Action Indivisible stands defiant
On April 5, an estimated 2,000 people flocked to Sayre Park in Glenwood Springs for the Hands Off! rally organized by Mountain Action Indivisible, a political advocacy group operating from Parachute to Aspen. The spike in Indivisible protests across our region is part of a national trend of grassroots organizing that quieted during the Biden […]
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Gray wolf update: 29 on the ground, more pups could be on the way
This month marks two years since the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPWC) approved the Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan. A lot has happened since then in the struggle to return gray wolves to Colorado. Like it or not, 29 wolves have made this state their home. In December 2023, 10 gray wolves from […]