It’s early in the morning, well not as early as I’d hoped, and my first press day as editor of The Sopris Sun. The temperature has cooled and I hear rain drops splattering the gutters outside our window — as good of a sign one can hope for right about now. I know many of […]
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Dear county commissioners
Re: Harvest Village By Roger Berliner Editor’s Note: Roger Berliner is a Sopris Sun board member, and has submitted this guest column outside of that capacity and of his own accord. Land use issues, without a doubt, rank at the top of the hard work you do. I know. I spent 12 years as the […]
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‘I don’t want to survive; I want to live’
‘Wall-E’ movie Review Editor’s note: Spoilers lie ahead, but this review is well worth the read and has already resulted in the editor wanting to finally see the film. Winner of the 2009 Oscar for best animated picture, “Wall-E” (2008) was a hugely successful collaboration between Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. Set in the distant […]
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Ps & Qs: Trump’s life is a children’s book
Years ago, I wrote a children’s book based on the true story of a lost shoe floating in the Colorado River. I titled it “Little Chaco.” All of 12 pages with a line or two per page, “Little Chaco” is an easy and fun read, containing all the magic I gained on my one-and-only river […]
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My river is gone
By Chuck Ogilby My river is about to die. The once-mighty Colorado River has been dying a slow death by a thousand cuts for years, but now it is going for good. I am a small irrigator and water user with good rights. Because of this, I am on the Division 5 — Colorado River […]
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Seeking Haystacks: Edwin Silas Wells Kerr
I moved to Aspen in the summer of 1958, and that fall began second grade. My childhood and schooling were idyllic, but my mother had always told me that when ninth grade came around, I was heading “back east” to boarding school, to be, as she put it, “polished.” When I reached that scary age, […]
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Anchors Aweigh: Autism and the square wheel
April is Autism Awareness Month, also known as Autism Acceptance Month. Although the official day is April 2, it is observed throughout the entire month. These observances are relatively recent: only not long ago did we feel the need to designate a day to accept difference. Perhaps because our social cognition — our collective brain […]
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Aspen Film’s Shortfest offers a time for reflection
Flashback to 1979 in the Roaring Fork Valley. I had been living here a short time, having moved in January of 1974. The Rocky Mountains called out to me. And the major attractions for me as a professional dancer were the Aspen Music Festival and ballet classes with Ballet West in a miraculous outdoor tent […]
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Happy trails, Raleigh
I’ve been tasked with a handful of recommendation letters over the past few years. It comes easier to me— speaking to what makes a colleague or intern exceptional. Yet it carries a sense of immense pressure. Will these words hold a candle to the person they describe? The answer is mostly no. With all of […]
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Historiography: Tragedy at Coal Basin
On Highway 133, near Redstone, Colorado, a memorial plaque reads: This monument stands in tribute to the miners of Coal Basin, who confronted adversity and proved themselves resourceful, innovative and intrepid. We honor their achievements and their sacrifices, remembering in particular those brave, good men whose lives were lost in the mines … Placed with […]