The Itsy-Bitsy Crossword Corner was born back in the halcyon days of October 2020, just 48 hours after meeting the woman I would one day marry. Hannah Hunt knew I enjoyed crossword puzzles, and she playfully dared me to write one for her via email at 9:31 on a Tuesday morning. By 11:26, my very […]
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A case for dirt
Mid-valley residents were unpleasantly surprised last month to find their beloved Hooks Spur Road paved over without an opportunity for public comment. What was once a popular spot for running, gravel riding and dog walking is now much hotter, firmer and arguably less safe for non-vehicular travel. Runners and dogs enjoyed it as a low-impact […]
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Amateur Eats: Beijin-Tokyo
“Amateur Eats” is The Sopris Sun’s food review, written by Carbondale resident and eating enthusiast Jake Skardon and published on the third Thursday of each month. There are 1,300 miles between Beijing and Tokyo, covering eastern China, the Korean peninsula and Japan. To eat your way from one to the other would be impossible, lest […]
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Mature Content: Love?
I learned the secret in 1989, while dutifully visiting my parents in Manhattan. Dad, 87, woke up more confused than usual. Mom and I urged him to see his doctor, and he reluctantly agreed. The doctor said to bring him in at once, so I called a taxi. Exam findings were negative. “Go home and […]
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Seeking truth
Some 40 new students walked into our fall geopolitical studies class last week. I love to see them come in — some quietly nervous, others boisterous and chatty, but all curious. We started with a trailer for a movie called “Eye in the Sky,” as the basis for discussing decisions that involve taking lives to […]
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Open Book: ‘Courageous Libraries, Resilient Communities’
Abraham Korah is the executive director of the Garfield County Public Library District. One of the odd bits that most of us don’t pick up on until we are adults is that there are conferences and conventions for almost everything. Whether it is the International Astronautical Conference or the North American Saxophone Alliance (the other […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: The Anesthesiologist
By Molly DeMarr I’m walking into a four-story office building in Lone Tree, Colorado, surrounded by other office buildings. It’s somehow both exquisite and completely bland. There’s no life anywhere, which feels fitting for a place where so many people are desperately trying to create it. The clinic occupies the third floor. Butterfly artwork covers […]
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The View from the Therapy Pool: The prophecy of ‘The Condor and the Eagle’
350 Roaring Fork and Roaring Fork Valley Circle are partnering to screen the documentary “The Condor and the Eagle” in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, Oct. 12. The invitation reads: “According to the prophecy of the condor and the eagle, when, after hundreds of years of separation, the condor (the heart and intuitive […]
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A city as an emerging canvas
Every time I drive along Grand Avenue and see the enormous neon gun at Doc Holliday’s Saloon and Restaurant, I think about how difficult it is to achieve something like that with an advertisement, to make people remember it. It may seem exaggerated, old-fashioned or extravagant, but it’s hard to imagine that corner of Glenwood […]
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Ps & Qs: Let’s teach AI to grow potatoes
Potato Days is this weekend. “Get your kicks on Root 66” is the theme, and when I think about my own roots in this town I start to get all wispy and sentimental. My great grandfather bought the Mount Sopris Ranch from Eugene Grubb in 1923. Mr. Grubb introduced Carbondale to the potato; he even […]