Carbondale forumThe Sopris Sun and KDNK Community Access Radio are hosting a forum for the Carbondale trustee and mayoral candidates on March 25 at Town Hall from 6 to 7:30pm. Questions for the candidates can be submitted in advance at www.tinyurl.com/CarbondaleCandidates Teller Springs conservedAspen Valley Land Trust announced that 31 acres at Teller Springs, a […]
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Scuttlebutt & Calendar
Spring Valley RanchA long-awaited Garfield County Planning Commission hearing about the proposed amendment to the Spring Valley Ranch Planned Unit Development, scheduled for April 9, was cancelled last week. In an April 4 letter to Glenn Hartmann, director of the county community development department, and county attorney Kelly Cave, Bart Johnson, attorney for Storied Development […]
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Summit for Life gets set
Time to dust off your uphill gear because the Chris Klug Foundation’s (CKF) highly anticipated Summit for Life race is happening on Dec. 7.Under the moonlight, athletes will test their early season fitness by either skinning, snowshoeing or hiking up Aspen Mountain. The daunting course features a 3,267-vertical-foot gain over 2.5 miles, but finishers will […]
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Letters – Aug. 8, 2024
Three-legged stoolMany a time I have listened to people lament, “Where is the ‘none of the above’ on a political ballot?” So many voters are worn out by the two-party non-choice. A choice for this presidential election has emerged and fully experienced with both people, governments and corporations. Forty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. […]
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Donors, recipients and caregivers recognized at CKF Awards
According to www.organdonor.gov, “17 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant.” The Chris Klug Foundation (CKF) gives three awards each year to people within the donor community. The foundation invited this year’s winners to a gala at Snowmass Village. The Sopris Sun was given the opportunity to interview each award recipient. Mark and […]
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Letters – Dec. 14, 2023
Champion the Enemy’s Needby Kim Stafford, former poet Laureate of OregonAsk about your enemy’s wounds and scars/Seek his hidden cause of trouble.Feed your enemy’s children.Learn their word for home.Repair their well.Learn their sorrow’s history.Trace their lineage of the good.Ask them for a song.Make tea. Break bread.Illène PevecCarbondale Shared responsibilityDear Carbondale friends, neighbors, business owners and […]
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Chris Klug Foundation award recipients encourage organ donation
One was a teen mom when her 5-week-old son died, and she agreed to donate his heart and liver so that two other children could live. Another was given the gift of continued life as an adult when his brother-in-law offered to donate part of his liver through a unique procedure that allows people to […]
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Letters – April 6, 2023
Correction: Antoinette Brasier’s last name was misspelled in the byline for her piece in last week’s paper, “Swatting mocks a very real problem.” Donate Life Month April is the 20th Anniversary of National Donate Life Month (NDLM). This month honors and celebrates current and past organ, eye, tissue donors and welcomes and encourages new ones. This […]