Yes, Bonedaleans, it’s true! After a years-long process (including two seasons without a municipal pool), the brand-new Carbondale Aquatics Center is scheduled to open Saturday, May 23, during Memorial Day weekend. The new facility replaces the old John M. Fleet pool, which operated from 1979 to 2023. Instead of the former single pool, the center […]
Carbondale Aquatic Center
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Scuttlebutt
Sopris Sun partyThe Sopris Sun is celebrating its 17th anniversary on Feb. 19 at the Old Thompson Barn in River Valley Ranch and needs your help to pull it off. Just like this newspaper, it takes a community to throw a party. We’re humbly requesting local restaurateurs to contribute bites and drinks, help from volunteer […]
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Carbondale’s next big splash
By Nick Nardecchia & Mali SparhawkSopris Stars guest column The Sopris Stars is a new monthly youth publication powered by The Sopris Sun. When we were little, summer meant one thing: the Carbondale pool. We both remember taking our first swim lessons there. We’d run down the deck until a lifeguard blew her whistle and […]
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Letters – May 1, 2025
Pool investmentLast spring, I had the privilege of participating on the Town of Carbondale’s Aquatics Center fundraising team as a grant writer. In the course of doing that work, I sought answers to three questions: 1. Why is the Town doing a fundraiser for its pool? 2. What is “building electrification?” 3. Why is the […]
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Carbondale Report: Code master, Aaron Kuhns, advances
Shortly after joining the Town of Carbondale staff last year, Building Official Aaron Kuhns began the formidable task of updating Carbondale’s building codes with goals of resolving inconsistencies, better matching the codes of neighboring jurisdictions and catching up with international efficiency standards. According to Kuhns, it’s been over 10 years since Carbondale underwent a process […]