The Bureau of Land Management has announced its intended approach for managing the Sutey Ranch near Carbondale, pending a 30-day public protest period.
The BLM acquired the 557-acre ranch, as well as the 112-acre Haines Parcel near Prince Creek, in March 2017 through the… read more →
All those protests, letter-writing campaigns, and yard signs to protect the Thompson Divide are reverberating in the halls of Congress.
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Congressman Joe Neguse, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 2nd District, recently introduced the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act that… read more →
For more than 50 years, Chris and Terri Chacos have shared each others’ ups and downs.
Both physical therapists, they met at a class in Denver in 1968 just as Chris was planning to leave for a Quaker mission in Vietnam.
“Oh no!… read more →
In polite company, there’s a social contract regarding how we interact with one another. But what happens when the company isn’t so polite?
That’s the question playwright Larry Shue poses in his two-act comedy “The Nerd.” And it’s the question Colorado Mountain College’s Sopris Theatre Company… read more →
It was always meant as a temporary space — that’s why The Arts Campus at Willits named the venue The Temporary. Still, when the lease was signed in August of 2017, the initial vision extended beyond May of this year.
TACAW Executive Director Ryan Honey is… read more →
Jo Altmaier spends most of her time at Colorado Mountain College these days, but the Basalt High School senior really found her voice at last year’s Poetry Project, Aspen Words’ in-school, two-week program that places four full-time poets in 16 schools for two weeks in early February.
The Town of Carbondale’s approach to global climate change is expanding from contributing to the best case scenario to preparing for the worst.
Last autumn, trustees attended a two-day Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) workshop with the Western Water Assessment (WWA) group. A final… read more →
When you walk into Ragged Mountain Sports, it’s easy to get drawn right into the racks of skis or casual wear featured in the center of the shop.
That is, unless you’re a dog person. If that’s the case, you likely won’t make it past the couch on… read more →
The Sopris Sun is conducting a series of interviews with folks you may not have seen in the paper before – a sort of introduction to your neighbors. This week, we caught up with John Ackerman, who recently became a massage therapist after more than 30 years working… read more →
The Carbondale and Rural Fire Protection District has once again arranged to donate gear to a fire department in Puerto Arista, Chiapas, Mexico with help from local Mike Carter.
Expired “bunker gear” — including jackets, pants, boots, flashlights and helmets — had been piling up in… read more →
