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• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Jun. 20, 2018

  Pages of the Past: Big business, humongous home

  From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal

  June 22, 1978

  The Town of Carbondale decided to begin enforcing an old policy restricting out of towners from using the municipal dump. With only nine months of operative life remaining on the facility and an estimated…

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• Locations: Obituaries Published Jun. 20, 2018

  Obituary: Oliver Nimmo

  
  June 21, 2013 – May 30, 2018

  Oliver was born in Denver to Harlan and Tamara Nimmo on June 21, 2013. Oliver died on May 30, 2018 in the wee hours of the morning. He was 22 days short of being 5 years old.

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• Locations: News Published Jun. 20, 2018

  Take a tour of Marble’s past

  

  Time travel is now available right here in the Crystal River Valley. If you come to Marble on Sunday, June 24 anytime between 1 and 4 p.m., you can step back in time about one hundred years. The Marble Hub and Marble Historical Society are presenting the Living… read more →

• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published Jun. 20, 2018

  Luckily, no one was there when the tree fell (but it made a loud noise in several lives)

  

  Doni Nicoll was all set for his and his family’s next chapter. They’re already renting a new home in Arizona, where his wife and daughter have relocated. Their Satank property had a buyer and was set to close Friday, June 15. It had been professionally cleaned… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Jun. 13, 2018

  Planting the seeds of history

  

  A locomotive headlight on display at the Mount Sopris Historical Society (MSHS) museum serves as a stark reminder that history doesn’t preserve itself.

  It was a fixture at the Glenwood Railroad Museum, which was shuttered and had its assets “scattered to the wind” after Union Pacific… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Jun. 13, 2018

  Increased density, smaller lots proposed for Thompson Park

  

  It should come as no surprise that a development proposal as protracted as Thompson Park wasn’t approved in one meeting.

  In fact, Carbondale Trustees went into their June 12 meeting knowing that the major site plan review, conditional use permit and agreement amendments would likely be… read more →

• Locations: News By Laney Devers Published Jun. 13, 2018

  CU gives local kids a lens on climate change

  

  On Monday, June 11, I sat in on Eric Carpenter of the University of Colorado as he lead a Science Discovery workshop for local students in middle through high school.

  He had the help of Dr. Erin Leckey, manager of Lens on Climate Change, Sarah… read more →

• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published Jun. 13, 2018

  Two generations of exchange

  

  Next week, Grace Jardin is heading to Mallorca, a Spanish island known for its beach resorts and limestone mountains. But Jardin isn’t going for the sights; she’s going to visit her friend.

  “I’m so excited because I’m so sad she’s leaving,” she said in the Hamiltons’… read more →

• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published Jun. 13, 2018

  Three varsity letters at three different schools

  

  School’s out for the summer, but Sophie Moon isn’t slowing down. In fact, she just began training for another cross-country season with Basalt High School, where she lettered in the sport as a freshman last school year.

  But Moon isn’t a Basalt student — she attends… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Jun. 13, 2018

  Pages of the Past: Bridge over trouble water

  From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal

  June 15, 1978

  Residents of the Crystal Meadows subdivision were shocked to hear that Gunnison County might be decommissioning the bridge that offered the only access into the area. The resulting outcry inspired Senator Floyd Haskell’s office…

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