April 19, 1956 – Dec. 17, 2019
Edward Joseph Kennedy left this earthly realm on Dec.17, 2019.
Ed showed an uncommon grace throughout his nine-month demise with pancreatic cancer. A resident of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, he died at the Veterans Hospital in Albuquerque.
Ed fell… read more →
You read it. You loved it. And you and your 13 other classmates wrote letters to the writer, now teaching high school history at an Anglo-American School in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Unexpectedly, author Dominic Carillo wrote back a long and appreciative email. Fairly quickly, an interactive Skype (video chat)… read more →
The moral of this story is: if you take the day off to go skiing, you just might miss out on The Sopris Sun’s big taco competition.
Sorry, Mi Casita, but by the time we found out you’d invoked the powder rule, we had already ordered… read more →
Ben Bohmfalk, Lani Kitching and Marty Silverstein are almost assured four more years on Carbondale Town Council, since no one else stepped up to run for the three seats up for election in April.
Someone could still file an affidavit of intent to run as a… read more →
White River National Forest is planning to redevelop its Aspen-Sopris Ranger District Office beginning next year.
But before the March 2021 demolition and subsequent year of construction, there’s plenty of opportunity for community members to get a good look at the plan. First up is an open house… read more →
hroughout town, there are many sculptures standing proudly in parks or on various street corners. Each has special significance for at least one and perhaps hundreds of locals. Some of the figures have been in place for some time, others have come and gone.
The economic gap between the richest Americans and the rest continues to grow, and the Roaring Fork Valley is a microcosm of that pattern.
That’s at least part of the picture painted by a 2018 report by the Economic Policy Institute recently dusted off by the… read more →
Little Megan Kanka was only seven years old when, in 1994, she was raped and murdered by a convicted sexual offender in the small community of Hamilton township in Mercer County, New Jersey.
“Every police officer I interviewed – in my office and at the trial… read more →
You’re flipping through a favorite magazine when suddenly you come across it – “Solve all your nutritional issues TODAY with this one trick!”. You panic. Didn’t you already know everything? Isn’t your big race tomorrow? Should you just “wing it” and try this one trick? Now what?
In… read more →
As the Colorado Press Association prepared to meet Jan. 17, a Colorado judicial branch committee had a scheduled — ironically closed-door — meeting to consider a new rule on the sealing of criminal court records.
According to Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition Executive Director Jeffrey A.… read more →
