Litter notMy name is Yonden Sherpa. I play sports and go to Carbondale Middle School. I am in fifth grade and I currently live in Carbondale. I wanted to let you know that there is some littering that I have been noticing and I am here to influence our Carbondale community because I have noticed […]
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Letters – May 23, 2024
GarCo leadershipI’m glad to see the vacancy on the Garfield County libraries board filled, and congratulations are due to Myrna Fletchall who appears to be a wonderful candidate. But to the GarCo Commissioners: your use of selective over-reach in this process isn’t fooling anyone in the electorate. That partisan politics, and your need for control, […]
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Letters – May 16, 2024
1968 againAs a veteran of the 1968 “police riot” at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, I can compare it to today’s pro-Palestine, anti-Israel protests. Once again, it’s the nation’s youth taking an antiwar stance. They always do. The old farts start the wars and it’s the nation’s flowering generation that has to spill the […]
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Letters – May 9, 2024
Conducting researchThe Carbondale Nature Park (aka the Delaney dog park) is a 31-acre piece of bottom land located about a quarter-mile north of Town Hall, where the water treatment plant currently sits. I’m researching the dog park’s history and now we are getting somewhere. The Town bought the property from Mesa Verde Associates, LLC in […]
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No double votingThe Carbondale Historical Society received an email from local octogenarian Pauline Bowles who wished to explain the reason Martha Witchey was holding a needle in the 1974 election photo printed on page 24 of the April 11th issue of The Sopris Sun. Bowles said she was a Basalt election official around that time […]
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Corrections: Lynn Burton humbly assumed credit for mistyping his last name within his email address provided in his letter to the editor last week. His email address is lynnburton679@gmail.com Following Lynn’s lead, The Sopris Sun acknowledges its part for not having caught the mistake. Also, in addition to R&A Enterprises, Alpine Bank, TJ Concrete and Industrial […]
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Correction: In a photo included in last week’s coverage of the Thompson Divide, Lea Linse holds up a Post Independent article from 2013, not 2023.Regarding the Spring Valley Ranch development, Kathleen Wanatowicz stated that “80-90% of the homes will be second homes,” not 86%. A time to celebrateYears ago, when natural gas drilling was heating […]
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Correction: Last week’s feature about Mountain Valley Developmental Services mistakenly dropped the “al” from that nonprofit’s name. Re: USFSI hope the octagonal porthole window above the west entrance got saved and given to Carbondale as an historical remembrance to be displayed in the town center, but it likely wasn’t. What a shame. Nancy Morey, Glenwood […]
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Not to burnOver a year and half ago, when I saw the obscene books in the Silt Library, I did say burn the obscene, x-rated books. I have since changed my mind. Burn no books. Put the books behind glass and require someone to be 18 or older to checkout. I did take out over […]
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No thanks to BoebertWhere are the fact checkers when needed? Lauren Boebert, with her tilted moral compass, has no shame. But really you should know better than to take a press release from her at face value. Surely you realize that she has voted against every bill that would have helped our district. She is […]