In many ways, Redstone is the last frontier of regulation, full of colorful personalities, differing opinions and little governmental oversight. Falling under Unincorporated Pitkin County, our sheriff is based in Aspen, over an hour away, the fire department is located in Carbondale and the closest thing we have to a town government is our chamber […]
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Anchors Aweigh: Happy multicultural St. Patrick’s Day!
This column originated from Sol del Valle and has been translated for our English readers. We are on the eve of the traditional celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. But what does this day mean for the local culture in Colorado, the Hispanic culture and the Irish culture? Although it might not seem like it, this […]
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Letters – March 13, 2025
Correction: Jane Taylor was mistakenly cited as Jane Smith in A.O. Forbes’ “Seeking Haystacks” column last week. Measles vaccine I was a child before the measles vaccine existed. When I was 10, I got sent home from school one day feeling worse than I had ever felt in my life with a headache that I thought […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: How I found IFS
This month on VOICES Radio Hour — Friday, March 14 at 6pm on KDNK — we kick off our Common Ground series by discussing the ways we can bring our best self to the table for hard conversations. In a conversation with Paul Dankers, who is a psilocybin harm reduction specialist, we discuss Internal Family […]
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Ps&Qs: America is worth more than the sum of its parts
First, I want to say thank you to Donald Trump. No, seriously, I want to thank him for taking the time to come back and kill our pretense of a democracy. While we were all limping around, our bleeding hearts liberally coloring the snow red, Trump came back with an old rusty hammer and sickle […]
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Letters – March 6, 2025
Library boardJocelyn Durrance was the Carbondale Branch Library’s trustee to the Garfield County Public Library District (GCPLD) board for five years and involved in library sciences for 30 years. Yet, she was recently replaced on the board for what appear to be strictly political reasons by the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC). Commissioner Tom Jankovsky […]
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Seeking Haystacks: Reclaiming character
My father was a B-24 bomber pilot during World War ll. After 87 missions, he was alive, brave, talented, funny and wickedly intolerant of anyone inauthentic. He despised the braggart, boasting of unearned privilege. He had been in positions where honor and honesty matter — were key to life. He distrusted leaders who thought different rules […]
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Partial: Defending the people who defend the Earth
As editor of The Sopris Sun, I am tasked with exercising impartiality: Keeping an open mind to the many nuances that exist in every story. There is one story, however, I’m compelled to tell, and I must admit, I am partial. I am partial to a people risking everything to restore a more harmonious coexistence […]
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Between belonging and affiliation
This column originated from Sol del Valle and has been translated for our English readers. “The discovery of ourselves manifests as knowing ourselves to be alone; between the world and us, an intangible, transparent wall opens: that of our consciousness.” – Octavio Paz During one of my visits to the Carbondale Public Library I happened […]
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Dream Well: Crystal threat
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 had a crazy dream that this girl […]