Correction: The Sopris Sun mistakenly noted that the anonymous source for the Aug. 21 article, “Is recess enough?”, did not respond for additional comment. The source did follow up, but their correspondence went unnoticed ahead of press time. Reelin in the yearsIt has been two years since Bob and Kathy Ezra first told me they […]
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The not-so-great Crystal River dry-up
By Bill JochemsCVEPA Views The United States Drought Monitor classifies the Crystal Valley in a state of exceptional drought. Even though River Valley Ranch is within this exceptional drought zone, diners on the deck of the Homestead Restaurant can enjoy the magnificent, luscious green view to the south. They will not see the slightest hint […]
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Letters – Aug. 28, 2025
Corrections: Watch Duty has a staff of 20, plus 280 volunteers across the globe. The 25th Amendment provides the power to discharge the president when they are sick or incapacitated. Disability platesNext time you buy a new car or annually renew your existing plates, please consider the new black specialty plate, which supports people with […]
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Freedom still lives
After a seven-year hiatus, the Regional Rainbow Gathering returned to Colorado, nestled in the Uncompahgre Forest looking up at formidable Lone Cone Mountain. Seventy-four or so misfits from across the U.S. camped in scattered tents, vehicles, a Food-Not-Bombs bus, with no fire, good spirits and plenty of weed. My brief stay with the Rainbow family […]
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Historiography: Colorado’s queer history
The Gilpin Observer, Dec. 5, 1907: Trinidad, Colorado — Katherine Vosbaugh, an eccentric Frenchwoman of brilliant attainments, died here the other day at the age of 83, after masquerading for 60 years as a man. The woman donned trousers when a girl and had a horror of skirts up to the time of her death […]
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Dream Well: The immovable shining cow
Natalia Snider is a certified dream practitioner living in Carbondale. She works with people’s dreams and imaginations to facilitate self-healing. Every month, she will analyze someone’s dream in The Sopris Sun. Anyone can submit a dream for personal analysis or inclusion in this column by visiting www.dreamhealings.com Dream I had a dream there was a […]
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Literate Life: Substance abuse has solutions
Back in March of this year, a Rifle library patron reported to our security guard that a man was apparently sleeping in the bathroom. The guard contacted our staff, and they went carefully to investigate. The man was not asleep. But he was unresponsive and drooling. There are people reading this that are already nodding. […]
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Mature Content: Extractions of the heart
I awoke feeling sad about my appointment to explore having some teeth pulled. I love my teeth and don’t want to separate from them, but these thoughts were soon pushed aside by thoughts about another loss I’m even less ready for. My youngest granddaughter decided to complete her senior year of high school in Salt […]
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Letters – Aug. 21, 2025
Corrections: A photo by Alison Osius in last week’s paper was mistakenly attributed to Laird Little. In “PEAK learning comes to Marble Charter School,” Karly Anderson was named, but she has since left Marble Charter School and Hope Dwiggins will take her place supporting the PEAK program. Lastly, in the Carbondale commercial inventory article published […]
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Ps&Qs: Coincidence and doll parts on Twining Flats Road
This life is crazy: full of beauty and wonder, but with a dark and dirty underside. The enactment of Project 2025 has us sliding down a hill as steep as any slope on Aspen Mountain, right toward fascism. Before the Heritage Foundation took hold of our government by the short hairs, the old rats-in-a-cage analogy […]