Correction: Last week’s Garfield County Report stated Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) Chair Tom Jankovsky said the BOCC has jurisdiction over the library board and director. In fact, he affirmed the library board has jurisdiction over the library director. Thank yous, all aroundI would like to say thank you to a few people and businesses. […]
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Folklórico inspires community through dance
For her Capstone project, Roaring Fork graduating senior Jacqueline Flores Alvarez reflected on her time with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s Folklórico program from the time she was in kindergarten. The skirts flow with our movements, our shoes rhythmically stomp the floor and our steps coordinate beautifully with the music. There is grace and beauty in […]
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Letters – May 8, 2025
Re: Rams RunOn April 25, Crystal River Elementary Schoolers ran in the 12th annual Rams Run. The fundraiser continues to be a well-loved tradition, with parents, grandparents, siblings and friends alike coming to cheer on and join the students. The kids run as many laps as possible in 30 minutes, raising money either by flat […]
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Seeking Haystacks: When we come to it
When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every womanCan live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the […]
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Street Philosophy: From the Gulf to the Rocky Mountains
This column originated from Sol del Valle and has been translated for English readers. A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to take a road trip from Colorado to Florida. After a few months, the return trip was inevitable. The route through the southern United States — more than 6,000 miles roundtrip — […]
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Ps & Qs: Equanimity now
Watching this administration barge their way through the days, weeks, months is taking a toll on my nervous system. I strive for equanimity, but it’s like someone brought their toddler into the air traffic control tower and then went out for a pack of smokes. For those of you born after the 70s, that is […]
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Letters – May 1, 2025
Pool investmentLast spring, I had the privilege of participating on the Town of Carbondale’s Aquatics Center fundraising team as a grant writer. In the course of doing that work, I sought answers to three questions: 1. Why is the Town doing a fundraiser for its pool? 2. What is “building electrification?” 3. Why is the […]
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Dream Well: Just be and we are free
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 DreamI find myself standing on a cliff overlooking […]
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CVEPA Views: An eye to the past, an eye to the future
There was a moment when I discovered something truly magnificent — when a great light struck me, when something new, different and special opened up for me. I may have been still in grammar school when my friend Julius took me on a hike above his neighborhood. We passed a small pond on the edge […]
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Historiography: Sheep Wars
Content warning: this article contains descriptions of violence and animal cruelty. In an article in the Steamboat Pilot on March 1, 1929, “Stock Owners Waged War for Northwest Colorado Range,” E.V. Haughey wrote: “In the early 1870s, the northwestern part of Colorado and that part of Wyoming lying along the north boundary was noted for […]