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• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published May. 23, 2018

  Shoemaker steps down at Wilderness Workshop, Roush to fill his shoes

  

  In what the organization is calling a “bittersweet moment,” Wildness Workshop Executive Director Sloan Shoemaker announced his resignation from the position last week — but although the news marks the end of a 21-year run in that role, it doesn’t mean the end of Shoemaker’s involvement with the… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published May. 23, 2018

  Snowmass Drive trail moves ahead

  

  Trustees backed Town staff’s recommendation of the second lowest bid to construct a new pedestrian and bike path between Main Street and Sopris Avenue on the eastern edge of town.

  Public Works Director Kevin Schorzman expressed his concerns about the lowest bid at the Board of… read more →

• Locations: News By Jon Nicolodi Published May. 23, 2018

  Wildfire preparedness and a water education event

  

  Snowpack and water have been all over the news this spring; and now that we’re turning the corner into summer, wildfire could soon be joining those two. All three of these natural elements go hand-in-hand. With this year turning out to be the fourth driest year on record,… read more →

• Locations: News Published May. 23, 2018

  The handkerchief and the cross

  

  Editor’s note: In lieu of Pages of the Past this week, we’ve opted to reprint an abridged version of a story from the Dec. 23, 1974 Roaring Fork Review (available for public perusal in its entirety at the Carbondale Branch Library). The predecessor to The Valley Journal and… read more →

• Locations: News By Debbie Bruell Published May. 23, 2018

  Don’t fear the (teen) dentist

  

  “Are you scared?” is the first question that Roaring Fork High School senior Leslia Serrano would ask each child as she ushered them out of class for a dental examination — often the first one of their lives.

  Serrano told The Sopris Sun that most… read more →

• Locations: Columns By Stan Badgett Published May. 23, 2018

  Mutt & Jeff: Scenes from work

  

  My father and I started a painting company years ago, at one point trying to talk businesses into letting us repaint their signs. Once, we parked in front of a meat-packing plant in Loveland, Colo. I went into the office while Dad stayed out in the car to… read more →

• Published May. 21, 2018

  CRES celebrates Bike Week

  

  It’s bike week in Carbondale. Third grader Emily Espinosa Guzman and her fellow CRES students got an early start with a safety class.… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published May. 16, 2018

  Pot planted downtown

  

  Someone placed at least six live cannabis plants in Main Street pots and planters on May 16, though most were swiftly removed.

  According to Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling, planting marijuana on public property is at least a code violation.  “It’s required to be secured and it has to be… read more →

• Locations: Columns, Opinion By Barbara Dills Published May. 16, 2018

  Let’s celebrate The Sun’s strength

  

  “To me, it’s unbelievable that somebody would be so naïve as to believe you can cut the heart out of a newspaper and still think it’s going to survive.”

  – Dean Singleton, former owner of The Denver Post, upon his May 4 resignation as chairman… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published May. 16, 2018

  Ogilbys turning out to be a family of fish

  

  It’s hard to say where the swimming legacy in the Ogilby family begins and ends. On one hand, it traces back at least as far as 1933 Illinois state freestyle champion Trahern Ogilby. On the other, it’s his great-granddaughters — Amélie, 12, and Laia, 9 — who have… read more →