Este año marcará el 51o festival anual Mountain Fair, y junto con las actividades que ya conocemos y amamos, también se unieron algunas actividades nuevas y emocionantes. Este año, la zona de Oasis apto para niños de Mountain Fair incluirá la Carpa de Artes Creativas y ofrecerá nuevas actividades bilingües. El equipo detrás de toda […]
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Bilingual events come to Mountain Fair
This year will mark the 51st annual Mountain Fair, and along with the perennial activities we know and love, it will include some exciting new activities. This year, the kid-friendly Oasis zone of Mountain Fair will include the Creative Canopy Arts Tent and will offer new bilingual activities. The team behind all of this programming […]
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Basalt report: Council meets Possumco in the middle on middle class housing
Sent back to the drawing board by Basalt’s Town Council during a fractious regular meeting on July 12, the Basalt Center Circle (BCC) grocery store and affordable housing complex’s revised design received higher marks at the July 26 regular meeting. “You guys are really good listeners,” councilor Ryan Slack said. He echoed a sentiment that […]
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Youth films on the big screen
Think of it like summer camp, but without the mosquitos. At the beginning of August, Aspen Film and the Red Brick Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the Colorado Film School, are presenting two week-long summer filmmaking camps for teens. In its second year, the summer filmmaking camp falls under the Film Educates programming […]
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Wild Feast welcomes Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk
Wilderness Workshop will host its fifth annual Wild Feast fundraising benefit on Aug. 10 at the St. Regis in Aspen, where the nonprofit will celebrate conservation, climate action and the protection of public lands. The occasion raises funds and awareness to further the group’s efforts to protect western Colorado’s lands and water, and build an […]
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Carbondale is water secure, but the West is not
On Tuesday, July 19, the town of Carbondale trustees held a work session on water. Mayor Ben Bohmfalk wanted to know whether the town has enough water to service growth, particularly in light of the desire to add housing. He also asked if the town should be doing more to reduce water demand and whether […]
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Carbondale report: Trustees pursue STR tax, table lodging tax
All Carbondale trustees were present at their regular meeting on July 27. During opening comments, trustee Lani Kitching talked about a gradual release of contracted water at the Ruedi Reservoir to help fish populations by cooling the Roaring Fork River. Carbondale, Basalt and Glenwood Springs participated. Trustee Marty Silverstein mentioned there will be a hiring […]
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Park jumps into academic excellence role at RFSD
This month, Stacey Park began her position as the Roaring Fork School District’s chief academic officer (CAO); a job that, when it came open, she “just jumped in.” Park said, “I read about the district’s focus on prioritizing students’ social-emotional well-being in service of academic learning, and that’s in line with my values. I’m passionate […]
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Letter from Michigan, ’22 (when “normal” maybe isn’t so normal)
Hello again, fellow Bondalers and Valley dwellers, from verdant, humid southwestern Michigan! Bonnie and I made it to our old stomping grounds a little later than usual but in time for a mostly great July 4 weekend here (see below). I can report that during the journey east through the Great Plains and Midwest things […]
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Shaping the future of wellness in Garfield County
On Monday afternoon, in a Third Street Center board room, Carbondale citizens were given the rare opportunity to directly voice the concerns of their community to Garfield County’s department of public health (GCPH). This was organized as the fifth in a series of six focus groups, each held across the county, assessing community health in […]