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• Locations: Opinion By Roberta McGowan Published Oct. 9, 2019

  Times have changed, but it’s good to be back in the newsroom

  

  The silence is one of the biggest differences. Today, sitting in front of my reporter’s desk at the Sopris Sun, I don’t hear the click clack of typewriter keys or the whoosh of the handle as I go to the following line. No enter or return button here.… read more →

• Locations: News By Roberta McGowan Published Oct. 9, 2019

  Learning to answer the call

  

  What could you do if several vehicles parked at your neighbor’s home were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), United States Department of Homeland Security?

  If you’re not sure and would like to know more, consider contacting the Colorado Rapid Response Network (CORRN), a network… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Oct. 2, 2019

  Meet the ghosts of Potato Days past

  

  If the Thompson House isn’t already haunted, it certainly will be on Oct. 5.

  In conjunction with the ghostly theme of this year’s Potato Day, The Carbondale Historical Society is jumping right in to October with a ghost walk at the nationally-registered building next to Triangle Park. While… read more →

• Locations: News By Kate Phillips Published Oct. 2, 2019

  Hard Truths: Domestic violence thrives in the shadows

  

  “I was barely 18 years old when we got married,” Carol*, a Carbondale local, recalls about her first marriage. “The first time we had sex was to consummate the marriage. He raped me.”

  Carol, who was head of multiple non-profits in the valley just a… read more →

• Locations: News By Trina Ortega Published Oct. 2, 2019

  New large-scale mural takes shape near Fourth Street

  

  Two children from the Mountain Momma Preschool stood in the small park at Fourth and Main streets staring at the side of a building where muralist Bunnie Reiss had painted a two-story-tall hoofed animal with a green diamond in its torso. A large orb (perhaps a sun) was… read more →

• Locations: Opinion By Roberta McGowan Published Oct. 2, 2019

  Review: Not just a walk in the park

  

  As the United States still stands on the brink of nuclear war after the nearly 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima,Japan, at the end of World War II, live theater in Carbondale rises to the challenge of portraying echoes of history as today’s reality.

  The… read more →

• Locations: News By Jeanne Souldern Published Oct. 2, 2019

  Nestler leaves on a sweet note

  

  Luke Nestler, KDNK Music Director, says his time at the station has “always felt like a calling, more than anything. And that’s what’s kept me going for 15 years.”

  He began as a volunteer DJ in 1989 and has been a paid staff member since… read more →

• Locations: News By James Steindler Published Oct. 2, 2019

  Roaring Fork keeps students in its halls

  

  Enrollment is up at Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) and the new administration is welcoming the influx with open arms. Lyn Bair, RFHS’s Principal, and Zoe Stern, Assistant Principal, are determined to keep students’ interest up and provide a top notch education for every young person they can.… read more →

• Locations: News By Roberta McGowan Published Oct. 2, 2019

  Read ‘The Choice’ with Colorado Mountain College

  

  What can you learn from Holocast survivor and clinical psychologist Edith Eva Eger, Ph.D.?

  Plenty.

  You can hear her talk about her memoir “The Choice: Embrace the Possible” 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct.10, at the Colorado Mountain College (CMC) Spring Valley campus. The… read more →

• Locations: News By Roberta McGowan Published Oct. 2, 2019

  Take a stand for two valleys

  

  The Roaring Fork and North Fork Valleys have more in common than simply being neighbors. 

  Each includes public lands under threat of oil and gas development near Huntsman’s Ridge. Also, the Wilderness Workshop (WW) insists that protection is urgently needed for Thompson Divide and also for… read more →