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• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Feb. 8, 2018

  Leach’s legacy and 40 years of firefighting

  

  In Ron Leach’s opinion, his 40-year career with the Carbondale and Rural Fire Protection District isn’t about him.
  “I want my legacy to be about the people I worked with,” he told The Sun on Feb. 4 — his official last day at the helm after 36 years… read more →

• Locations: News By Debbie Bruell Published Feb. 8, 2018

  RF Futsal growing by leaps and bounds

  

  A couple years ago, sixth grader Mia Cubias would have been spending her weekends this time of year planted in front of their family’s television or playing soccer with her dad and uncle inside their garage. Now, she spends most of her weekends at the Carbondale Middle School gym—playing futsal… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Feb. 8, 2018

  Pages of the Past: Water, snow and illicit apricots

  

  Feb. 9, 1978
  Roland Fischer of the Colorado RIver Water Conservation District penned a guest column in opposition to the Division of Wildlife’s attempts to enforce minimum stream flow laws on the Crystal River. While he praised the idea of supporting fish and habitat, he feared it would improve… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Feb. 1, 2018

  Sisu endures — but we could use six weeks of winter

  Pitkin County Road and Bridge Engineer Gerald Fielding assesses the quality of the snow at the base of the Spring Gulch Trail System. Photo by Will Grandbois

  On a warm January day, a group of men regarded the muddy entrance to the Spring Gulch Trail system with the practiced eyes of recreationalists, ranchers and engineers.

  It’s ostensibly a meeting about parking lot improvements, but the spectre of drought is pervasive.

  “We… read more →

• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published Feb. 1, 2018

  Graham’s legacy sparks art, scholarship

  “Angus Chain,” made out of recycled gold by California-based jeweler Johnny Ninos

  Angus Graham never wanted his work to become the point of conversation — in a handwritten note about his pottery, he described his art’s purpose as a complementary one. “Pots are never meant to be alone,” he wrote. “Thus I never want my pots to overpower a situation… read more →

• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published Feb. 1, 2018

  Brannigan’s All State Choir performance a first for RFHS

  Marcia Kuhlman works with RFHS Senior Cal Brannigan in preparation for his Feb. 3 performance with the Colorado All State Choir. Brannigan is the first student from RFHS to be selected. Photo by Megan Tackett

  More than 2,000 singers across the state registered to audition, but it’s so notoriously rigorous that only 1,717 of them completed the process. Less than 30 percent were selected, and Roaring Fork High School senior Cal Brannigan was among them.

  That’s not just a big… read more →

• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published Feb. 1, 2018

  Senior living proposal headed to trustees

  The proposed Sopris Lodge Assisted Living Community is one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to the Planning and Zoning Commission’s unanimous vote to approve the special use permit required.
  The commission, with staff approval, also recommended that the Board of Trustees move to approve the overall… read more →

• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published Feb. 1, 2018

  Dandelion Market’s future in question… again

  Carbondale Community Food Cooperative members will face a number of options at their next meeting, but one looms larger than the others: dissolution. Without more volunteers to take on shifts to keep the Dandelion Market operating, that’s exactly what will likely happen.

  “We are truly at a crucial point,” said… read more →

• Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Feb. 1, 2018

  Pages of the Past: Art, snow and natural gas

  Feb. 2, 1978
  Although newly enacted “Per cent for Art” legislation wasn’t slated to take effect until summer, the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities advocated for applying it to the new town hall when it began construction earlier in the year. In essence, they planned to request that… read more →

• Locations: News By Megan Tackett Published Jan. 26, 2018

  Panic elsewhere illustrates benefits of preparation here

  In the midst of evacuations earlier this month in Montecito, Calif., Laura Bartels’s retreat group maintained calm in the literal storm. That’s because Bartels, executive director of the Mindful Life Program and who was leading the California retreat, had taken several precautions in the event that their plans would have to change. “There were red-flag warnings — they’d had 100-degree days and high winds,” Bartels said. read more →