Ace reporter seeks housingAmy Hadden Marsh, one of the Valley’s top reporters, and her indoor cat (Dizzy) are in need of a place to live. Marsh lost her housing of 27 years due to circumstances beyond her control and hopes to remain local. If you know of a reasonably-priced place, please email amy@soprissun.com Ski and […]
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GarCo Report: SPEED Act, library trustee appointments, new dozer for the landfill
Monday, Jan. 5, marked the first Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting of 2026. The agenda opened with the appointment of three trustees for the Garfield County Public Library District. Library Board of Trustees Chair Adrian Rippy-Sheehy and Executive Director Jamie LaRue were on-hand. Describing the selection process, Jankovsky explained, “The library will get one vote […]
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Living Stonehenge
Amy Hadden MarshFrom the Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England Looking out the bus window, I couldn’t see a thing. It was pitch black outside. No roads — except for the one upon which we were traveling and lit only by our headlights — no cars, no lights in the distance signaling habitation, just a curtain of […]
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GarCo Report: Library trustee interviews set for Friday, Dec. 10
Maybe it’s because we’re coming up on the winter holidays and everyone is ready for some time off. Maybe it’s because we’re coming up on the end of the year and no one wants to start anything new. Maybe it’s the early-morning icy roads that are keeping the December Garfield Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) […]
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No place like Glastonbury for the holidays
Winter holiday celebrations in Glastonbury, United Kingdom, also known as “the heart chakra of the world,” are a joyous mixed bag. It’s two months of pilgrimages and parties. After the Wild Hunt, heralding Hallowe’en and Samhain (SOW-en), the beginning of winter in the old Celtic traditions, comes Carnival. Floats the size of semi-trucks are pulled […]
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KDNK to host NPR’s Kirk Siegler at the Crystal Theatre
Carbondale community access radio station KDNK will play host to award-winning broadcast journalist Kirk Siegler, National Public Radio’s (NPR) national correspondent for the West, at the Crystal Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 6:30pm. Longtime Roaring Fork Valley journalist Amy Hadden Marsh will moderate a discussion with Siegler, after which there will be a question-and-answer […]
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Wildfire, time travel and the Sturgeon Moon
I kept looking over my shoulder during the opening act of the Garfield County Fair’s Saturday night concert. Between songs by musician David Nail, I’d give a glance to the northwest to check on the smoke plume from the state’s largest wildfire this season: at the time a 100,000-acre behemoth called the Lee Fire. Red […]
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GarCo Report: Town hall with Hurd, new natural gas pad, nonprofit grants
After thanking firefighters for their work on local fires and praising Aspen’s gondola transit system idea, Steve Kuschner of 350 Roaring Fork asked the Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) Monday to support an in-person town hall with Congressman Jeff Hurd (R-CD3). Hurd has been on the hook with constituents since last March for having tele-town halls […]
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GarCo and Glenwood discuss homeless issues at public webinar
Just 90 minutes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the White House on July 24 to crack down on homeless people across the nation, Garfield County elected officials and staff from the City of Glenwood Springs hosted a webinar about the local unhoused population. Prompted by a fire that ignited in late […]
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New NEPA regulations reduce public voice in energy development
In response to President Donald Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order, multiple governmental agencies have introduced new rules for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Eight federal agencies have introduced policies like faster deadlines, page limits and removal of public input in order to expedite domestic energy production. The White House lauds these new […]