By Age-Friendly Carbondale The first eight columns in this series reported the results of Age-Friendly Carbondale’s year of work on State Highway 133 inside town limits. We reviewed many previous studies and reports, spent four months listening to residents and eight months analyzing over 4,000 responses from more than 500 individuals. Last week’s column, the […]
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Pitkin County’s bike path through the Crystal River Corridor to Crested Butte: An ecological perspective
By Roaring Fork Audubon and Colorado Sierra Club The Redstone to McClure Pass section of the Carbondale to Crested Butte trail development project will pass through some of the most ecologically important and beautiful breeding bird habitats remaining in the Crystal River Valley. While this is exciting for bikers, it is an ecological tragedy for […]
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Letter from Michigan: Elections have consequences
Editor’s note: Every summer Ken Pletcher has written a letter to Sopris Sun readers from Michigan. Here is letter number four. Hello again from the southeastern shores of beautiful Lake Michigan, part of a region sometimes called America’s Third Coast. I had planned, in this fourth letter, to write about our immediate neighbors behind our […]
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Mature Content: Living the end stage
A medical team stopped and restarted my heart a few weeks ago, trying to stop its atrium from fibrillating. I considered this a drastic measure, but it didn’t work. It rarely does, with people my age. Consequently, I’ve scheduled even more drastic measures.My cardiac reboot took place two days after a close friend’s memorial service. […]
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133, Dangerous as Designed:Our paved futon
By Age-Friendly Carbondale We conclude our review of crossings along 133 with Snowmass and Meadowood Drive, the only two where survey respondents did not report perceiving unsafe conditions. That said, let’s take this week to examine the nature of 133. Roads move people from point A to point B quickly, efficiently and, usually, safely. In […]
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Money Juice: Three fast tips to grow your money
Money Juice is all about getting people on a path to sustainable wealth while having fun in the process. Does money stress you out? If you think developing wealth is a pie-in-the-sky goal for people who already have money, you are sadly mistaken. Growing money is for all of us. Money likes to grow. It’s […]
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133, Dangerous as Designed: Designated crossings
By Age-Friendly Carbondale The next intersection in the 133, Dangerous as Designed series is Hendrick Drive and Sopris Avenue. This is an oddly configured intersection because Hendrick and Sopris are not aligned, adding to its complexity and making it more difficult to negotiate safely. Several factors make this intersection unsafe. The first is speed. Leaving […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: ‘Where I’m from’
By Henri Oziel Andrade Machado Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CLDE) students share personal narratives based on the prompt, “Where I’m From.” Their stories take place in lush gardens in Mexico, volcanic lakes of Guatemala, quaint parks in Honduras and olive orchards in El Salvador, as well as right here […]
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Ps&Qs: Meditating with my fairy godmother
It seems like once we turn 50, we realize that we’re on the back side of the hill and if there’s anything we want to get really good at, we’d better start practicing— like now. Most people choose a pastime that will weather the years: like golf, fishing or yoga. Something they will still be […]
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133, Dangerous as Designed: The roundabout
By Age-Friendly Carbondale This week, moving south along State Highway 133, we’ll examine the Main Street roundabout. Roundabouts are increasingly popular with the public and traffic engineers. They cost about as much to install as intersections with traffic lights, move traffic more efficiently and are touted by the U.S. Department of Transportation as reducing fatality […]