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• Locations: News By Ken Pletcher Published Jan. 12, 2022

  GOCO grant boosts RFOV prospects

  Volunteers at the Silt River Preserve get to work during the 2021 season. Courtesy photo

  In early December 2021, Basalt-based Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) announced that it had received a $298,490 grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), the state-run agency that invests money from the Colorado Lottery in a variety of environment- and outdoors-related projects throughout the state. It was the largest single grant… read more →

• Locations: Obituaries Published Jan. 12, 2022

  Obituary: Savanna Ray Bristol

  Savanna Bristol

  May 27, 1993 – Dec. 29, 2021

  Savanna Ray Bristol was born in Glenwood Springs and passed at her home in Durango. 

  She grew up and attended school in her hometown of Carbondale, where she graduated from Roaring Fork High School. In 2019, she attended San Juan Community College… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Jan. 12, 2022

  You can take our bags but not our bingo

  

  From the archives of The Valley Journal and Sopris Sun

  Jan. 21, 1982

  Carbondale Trustees approved a $3.5 million Industrial Revenue Bond (IRB) to support the construction of a strip mall at the southwest corner of Main Street and Highway 133. The so-called “Mall at Roaring… read more →

• Locations: News By Jeanne Souldern Published Jan. 12, 2022

  Scholarships open doors for RFHS seniors

  Roaring Fork High School seniors Omar Gomez Rodriguez and Yahjairi Castillon, first-generation college students, are eagerly making plans for college this fall. Photo by Jeanne Souldern.

  The doors of opportunity opened wide for two Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) seniors, Yahjairi Castillon and Omar Gomez Rodriguez, who were each awarded full four-year QuestBridge National College Match Scholarships.

  QuestBridge is a national nonprofit that connects exceptional youth from low-income families with leading colleges.… read more →

• Locations: News By Kate Phillips Published Jan. 12, 2022

  Naturalist Nights back with something for everyone

  Learn more about the Red-naped Sapsucker and the effort to conserve them and other bird species with Arvind Panjabi, one of five Naturalist Nights experts that will be presenting in-person in March. Photo by Mick Thompson

  Naturalist Nights, one of the most highly anticipated events of the year, is back and ready to inspire audiences around the Roaring Fork Valley (RFV).

  Founded by Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) in 1998, Naturalist Nights is a free winter speaker series created to connect environmental experts… read more →

• Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Jan. 12, 2022

  Glasenapp’s ‘Recollectivity’ sees light

  Terry Glassenapp was a major participant in the Carbondale Arts/Carbondale Mountain Fair “50 Years of Fair” exhibition in 2021. Photo by Amy Levenson

  Terry Glasenapp, age 72, has a knack for collecting art. 

  Not fancy paintings or bronze sculptures, but the pop art of American culture in motion.

  As an employee at Colorado Mountain College (CMC), Glasenapp was instrumental in bringing to fruition the Glenwood Springs Arts Council back… read more →

• Locations: Letters By Kate Phillips Published Jan. 12, 2022

  Naturalist Nights back with something for everyone

  Learn more about the Red-naped Sapsucker and the effort to conserve them and other bird species with Arvind Panjabi, one of five Naturalist Nights experts that will be presenting in-person in March. Photo by Mick Thompson

  Naturalist Nights, one of the most highly anticipated events of the year, is back and ready to inspire audiences around the Roaring Fork Valley (RFV).

  Founded by Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) in 1998, Naturalist Nights is a free winter speaker series created to connect environmental experts… read more →

• Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Jan. 12, 2022

  Scuttlebutt and Calendar - Jan. 13, 2022

  A “Phone of the Winds” appeared at the Delaney Nature Park in Carbondale. According to the laminated placard, “physically connected to nowhere, it is a portal where you can speak privately to whomever you wish, alive or deceased.” The installation was inspired by similar phones across the world, originating in Otsuchi, Japan. Thanks to an anonymous reader for letting us know. Courtesy photo

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  Cannabis gives

  LivWell Enlightened Health, a cannabis manufacturing company, donated $60,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Colorado toward its affordable housing construction efforts. The funding came from LivWell’s customers who participated in the business’s “Round Up” campaign. Since Colorado’s stay-at-home order went into effect, LivWell has offered…

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• Locations: News By James Steindler Published Jan. 12, 2022

  The flipside to the short-term rental debate

  Richard Walker speaks with Brittany Hailey. The two are part of the pro-STR group Carbondale Forward. Photo by James Steinler

  There are two sides to every coin and, following the Carbondale trustees’ Dec. 21 work session addressing Community First Carbondale’s (CFC) proposal to regulate short-term-rentals (STR), a flip-side presented itself.

  In response to the work session, a contingent of people in favor of short-term rentals formed… read more →

• Locations: Letters, Opinion Published Jan. 12, 2022

  Letters - Jan. 13, 2022

  The gift of you

  Money is great. If we have any extra, we ought to spread it out to help others. It is satisfying if done correctly, which means being guided by good intentions. But, don’t forget, we are also great. Even better than money. So we ought… read more →