Alex Menard Archives – The Sopris Sun

Letters – May 11, 2023

by Letters to the Editor May 10, 2023November 17, 2023

Re: Boebert country I direct this email message to Mr. Menard as an individual and your rag of a publication as a group. I am a resident of the southwest corner of Colorado (Montezuma County) and I am PROUD to say that Rep. Boebert is VERY POPULAR in our little corner of Colorado. Mr. Menard […]

Columns, Opinion, Uncategorized

Lauren Boebert’s husband involved in ATV altercation

by James Steindler April 26, 2023November 17, 2023

Opinion by Alex Menard Listen to the actual tapes of 911 calls involving the Boebert family and their neighbor’s response to reckless ATV driving. On YouTube, search for “911 Audio of Lauren Boebert Family HARASSING neighbors released” posted by MeidasTouch (www.bit.ly/BoebertATV). Listen now before reading on. The incident is remarkable not just because of who […]

Fiction, Uncategorized

Work in Progress – Nov. 3, 2022

by Raleigh Burleigh November 2, 2022November 17, 2023

The Bald Eagles of Beaver Lake By Alex Menard This may read like a short story and still seems like a dream to me. In fact, I am relating it just as it happened on one stunningly beautiful fall day in Marble, Colorado. The day was so bright it almost hurt your eyes, and completely […]

News, Uncategorized

As Lincoln Memorial turns 100, Marble town history is written in pure white stone

by Dyana Furmansky May 25, 2022November 17, 2023

After visiting the beginnings of Colorado-Yule Marble Company in the town of Marble, architect Henry Bacon insisted on using its luminous, white stone for the Parthenon-styled exterior of the Lincoln Memorial he was designing. Its color was, he asserted, “immeasurably superior” to the four tried-and-true marble sources also being considered by the Lincoln Memorial Commission. […]

News, Uncategorized

Lead King Loop stakeholder group hosts listening session

by Raleigh Burleigh May 4, 2022November 17, 2023

By Alex Menard As the upper Crystal Valley sheds its protective coat of winter white, many things are revealed. The daily appearance overhead of a pair of bald eagles means that our ecosystem has a crowning touch: an eagle’s nest. On McClure Pass, the melting snow makes way for a flowery carpet of yellow glacier […]

News, Uncategorized

Lead King Loop debate continues

by Will Grandbois April 27, 2022November 17, 2023

By Alex Menard Sopris Sun Correspondent In about a month, Off Highway Vehicles (OHVs) will return to Marble and the Lead King Loop (LKL) in great numbers. During the annual quiet winter period, the Lead King Loop Working Group (LKLWG) met for over 30 hours to work on management policies. Due to an agreement for […]

Columns, Opinion, Uncategorized

Opinion: Last chance for Lead King Loop

by Will Grandbois March 2, 2022November 17, 2023

By Alex Menard It began quietly and slowly, barely noticeable. But, each year the same processional theme was repeated with a faster tempo and more volume. The theme assumed a harsh, incessant, menacing, out of control quality. This is not a music review of Ravel’s Bolero, rather the history of ATV use on the Lead […]

News, Uncategorized

Putting the brakes on Marble’s ATV frenzy

by Kathleen Shannon April 7, 2021November 17, 2023

Sitting on the porch of a small cottage just beyond Marble town limits, I enjoyed a warm spring day, feeling that I was truly in the wilderness. Local residents are trying to soak up that feeling before the tourist season arrives, and, along with it: ATVs, or all-terrain vehicles, which bring noise, dust, erosion, and […]