Benjamin Waddell Writers on the Range Residents of the Westside Mobile Home Park in Durango, in southern Colorado, called it a miracle. They are under contract to buy the land their homes sit on, their rent will not go up and they proved that the housing cooperative they’d founded had staying power. Westside’s fate was […]
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Branching Out: Living the enlivening of spring
I almost drove off the road when I caught sight of the wild Merriam’s turkeys — two or three toms were in full display mating mode. How could you miss them? Sunlit, the ivory and cream bands of their tail fans were incandescent, their regal sway reminiscent of an elk’s antlers or a Plains chief […]
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Celebramos el mes del niño
Mi recuerdo más bello de infancia no es material. De hecho son pocas, pero significativas, las cosas que recuerdo con cariño y las asocio más con momentos que con su valor económico. Mi recuerdo más bonito de infancia es mi mamá, y los momentos que me regalaba. Su tiempo. La paz y la paciencia con […]
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Servicios legales comunitarios, tan importantes hoy como en el pasado
Hace casi 20 años, en el 2004, Roaring Fork Legal Services y Garfield County Legal Services se unieron para crear Alpine Legal Services (ALS). Garfield County Legal Services había existido como proyecto desde 1982, y como su propia organización desde 1987, y Roaring Fork Legal Services desde 1996. ALS, una organización sin ánimo de lucro, […]
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Ps&Qs: One for Jim B.
Another good friend is gone. Jim Breasted was the coolest of the cool. We enjoyed talking about many subjects from hiking to history to dive bars in Aspen… but the one thing we would always circle back to, and agree on, is that they don’t make Republicans like they used to. Hell, I don’t think […]
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Sun Signs: April’s Jupiter-Neptune conjunction
On Tuesday, April 12, the planet Jupiter will pass over the exact degree of the zodiac where Neptune currently resides. This cohabitation of planets, called a “conjunction” by astrologers, combines their significations and offers a potent elixir. These two meet each other only once every 13 years, making it a prominent feature of 2022’s astrological […]
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Poesía bilingüe por estudiantes recién llegados
Newcomer emerging bilingual students in Mary Hernandez’s class at Carbondale Middle School studied poetic techniques and used sensory imagery to write biographical poems. They wrote and revised bilingual poems in Spanish and English, and strategically chose which language to use to create their ideas. They then practiced reading expressively before recording with the Andy Zanca […]
