If you’re feeling helpless in the wake of the Lake Christine Fire, Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE) could use your help managing the influx of four-legged evacuees. “If they’re mandatory evacuated, we are taking animals. We are not taking livestock, just small animals: cats and dogs, bunnies, whatever people have,” CARE Development and Events Manager Samantha […]
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Pilot program helps paralyzed participants move again
It was the first time Adam Lavender stood in his wife’s embrace in six years. He’d been told by every spinal cord injury (SPI) expert at Craig Hospital that he would never regain mobility after a mountain biking accident in 2012. He was, and always would be, a quadriplegic. Yet after a month-long pilot program […]
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Ceramicists’ individual pursuits result in Paralleled Pastiche
Artists Savanna LaBauve and Stephanie Seguin didn’t know each other when they each arrived in town last September to share a cozy studio space as the Carbondale Clay Center’s newest residents. But after a year of creative cohabitation, each acknowledges the other’s influence. “I’m really excited to see how our work relates to one another,” […]
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Get ready to reach new heights later this month at Carbondale’s newest bouldering gym Monkey House Carbondale! Conveniently located in the ET Plaza between Highway 133 and 12th Street, Monkey House Carbondale is a dynamic bouldering gym that was specifically designed to challenge climbers of all abilities. From kids who are just learning to climb […]
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Meet the youngsters on the force
Nineteen-year-old Jesus Terrazas of Gypsum was working for FedEx when he saw an ad in the paper for an opening at the Carbondale Police Department. It had been his dream since he was little to work in law enforcement. Knowing the odds were stacked against him as he was one of the youngest applicants, he […]
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By the light of the moon
Once upon a time, in the small but quirky town of Carbondale, there lived a woman who wrote a children’s book. She finished the book in no time, had it illustrated and designed by local artists and was quite happy with the finished product. She loved it, in fact. That was about 10 years ago. […]
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Ps & Qs: Land of the caged
The Trump administration started separating children from their parents at the border and relocating them while their parents await trial for seeking refuge. The immigration courts in this country are moving at the speed of smell, and even if they could manage to find and reunite with their young children, the damage has been done: […]
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A sneaky move by the BLM
Dear Editor: I read with great dismay in last Friday’s Post Independent that the BLM wants to abandon their offices in Garfield County and “move” to Grand Junction. Although I can see there are monetary savings if the BLM offices are consolidated into one location, I believe that most of us who are paying attention […]
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Fireworks don’t work during a drought
It sounds counterintuitive: it’s legal to sell fireworks in Garfield County, but their use — even in unincorporated areas — is absolutely banned. “We have the fireworks stand in the west end of our district, and in years like this, it can be pretty controversial,” Carbondale Fire Chief Rob Goodwin said. “The commissioners and the […]