Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Jan. 12, 2022

Scuttlebutt and Calendar - Jan. 13, 2022

A “Phone of the Winds” appeared at the Delaney Nature Park in Carbondale. According to the laminated placard, “physically connected to nowhere, it is a portal where you can speak privately to whomever you wish, alive or deceased.” The installation was inspired by similar phones across the world, originating in Otsuchi, Japan. Thanks to an anonymous reader for letting us know. Courtesy photo

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Cannabis gives

LivWell Enlightened Health, a cannabis manufacturing company, donated $60,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Colorado toward its affordable housing construction efforts. The funding came from LivWell’s customers who participated in the business’s “Round Up” campaign. Since Colorado’s stay-at-home order went into effect, LivWell has offered…

The flipside to the short-term rental debate

Richard Walker speaks with Brittany Hailey. The two are part of the pro-STR group Carbondale Forward. Photo by James Steinler

By James Steindler

There are two sides to every coin and, following the Carbondale trustees’ Dec. 21 work session addressing Community First Carbondale’s (CFC) proposal to regulate short-term-rentals (STR), a flip-side presented itself.

In response to the work session, a contingent of people in… read more →

Locations: News Published Jan. 5, 2022

Pet adoptions surge trailed by surrenders

Oscar is a one-year-old cattle dog looking for a new home after his family was unable to secure housing. Courtesy photo

By Myki Jones

As people were told to stay home in 2020, due to the initial spread of COVID-19, pet adoptions from animal shelters skyrocketed. However, in 2021, animal shelters across the country have reported a record amount of those same animals being returned, or surrendered,… read more →

Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Jan. 5, 2022

Scuttlebutt / Calendar Jan. 6, 2022

MANA Foods is moving! Carbondale’s locally-focused health foods store, managed by the nonprofit Adi Shakti Ashram, is temporarily closed while volunteers relocate merchandise to the former location of Wine Time, next to Tortilleria La Roca. This expands MANA Foods’ square footage more than threefold, even providing space for yoga and meditation. Kiko and Graciela Peña, owners of Sopris Liquor & Wine, had purchased Wine Time from Sigrid and Rudy Pieper, who decided to return to Europe. “Kiko has been very generous with us,” said Adi Shakti Ashram board member Richard Vottero, explaining that they were given the two months remaining on Peña’s lease, plus shelving and refrigerators. Vottero is pictured here, flanked by store manager Sotantar Anderson (left) and board member Crystal Colantino (right). Photo by Raleigh Burleigh

Omicron

The COVID-19 Omicron variant has made its presence known in the state of Colorado and accounted for 91% of positive cases over a three-week period. Prior to Christmas, Garfield County was seeing 25 confirmed positive cases of COVID each day on average. On Dec. 29, the… read more →

Locations: News By Geneviève Villamizar Published Jan. 5, 2022

A wild impulse, landscape painter Peter Campbell

"A Break in the Storm" by Peter Campbell

“I have a triad, like a pie. In that pie, there’s what you see. There’s what you know. And there’s what you feel. The feel part is huge — it’s why you do what you do.”

Plein air painter Peter Campbell will be celebrating winter works at Korologos Gallery in… read more →

Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Jan. 5, 2022

Omicron surges through the Valley

Photo by James Steindler

Omicron, the prevailing COVID-19 variant of concern, was first identified in South Africa in late November. Within weeks, it was detected in Colorado and by Dec. 15 had arrived in Garfield County. Days later, on Dec. 20, Pitkin County reported its first case of Omicron, with a vaccinated individual testing… read more →

Locations: News Published Jan. 5, 2022

Same day COVID-19 results arrive to Carbondale

By late January, COVID test samples will be processed at a laboratory in the freshly-painted building at 695 Buggy Circle. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

The Free COVID-19 Testing Roaring Fork Valley service that operates 10 locations in the Roaring Fork Valley and surrounding cities will soon offer same day results on all testing.

The service, in collaboration with MicroGenDx, a company specializing in low-cost, FDA authorized, highly accurate qPCR + NGS microbial… read more →

Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Dec. 29, 2021

Year in Review 2021: When was normal?

Photo by Beth White

Dec. 21, 2020 —
a grand conjunction between planets Saturn and Jupiter, on the solstice, signaled the beginning of “a new epoch,” in the words of Sopris Sun columnist Whitney Will (Sun Signs), “that will see us through until the year 2219.” Year one of that nearly… read more →

Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Dec. 29, 2021

Scuttlebutt / Calendar - Dec. 30, 2021

Carbondale resident Jinx Riedesel, known for her love of music and literature, was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. “Her decline has been rapid and the prognosis isn’t good,” her son told The Sopris Sun. In the spirit of Christmas, neighbor Peggy Beehler organized friends to serenade Riedesel from the back deck of her home in River Valley Ranch on Dec. 21. Courtesy photo

Masks required

The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority would like to remind passengers that masks are required while riding the bus, regardless of vaccination status. The federal mask requirement on public transportation remains in effect through March 18, and local bus service will be impacted if too many drivers are exposed… read more →

Locations: News Published Dec. 29, 2021

Why is journalism important?

From left to right: Marlo Bowman, Maeve Murray, Sofie Koski and Jaris Elliott. Photo by James Steindler

By Sopris Sun youth journalists

Maeve Murray

After joining The Sopris Sun’s new youth journalism program, we were asked one question: why is journalism important? We responded with various ways of saying: “getting information out to the public” and “connecting the community.”

However important these things are, throughout this… read more →

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