The Garfield County Public Library District is seeking trustees (our word for library board members) to fill three vacancies. (For more information, visit www.bit.ly/GCPLD-wanted). Applicants do have to live in Rifle, New Castle or Parachute. By the end of the year, the Rifle position will have been vacant for six months, due to delays in […]
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Informe de la Biblioteca: La Junta aprueba política de protección de la información, examina los ingresos
El 2 de octubre, la Junta del Distrito de Bibliotecas Públicas del Condado de Garfield (GCPLD) aprobó en segunda lectura una política para proteger la información personal de los usuarios y del personal de la biblioteca frente a las autoridades federales de inmigración. La política fue redactada en respuesta a la Sección 24–74–103 del C.R.S., […]
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GarCo Report: Budget talks get underway, library IGA remains elusive, development fees increase
Starting out Monday’s regular Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting, Silt resident Caleb Waller piped up during public comment and suggested that the county consider enacting a noise ordinance. He described an instance over the weekend of music being too loud at a party on private property within unincorporated Garfield County that kept the “whole […]
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Library Report: Board approves information protection policy, examines revenue
On Oct. 2, the Garfield County Public Library District (GCPLD) Board of Trustees approved a policy on second reading protecting the personal information of library patrons and staff from federal immigration authorities. The policy was drafted in response to C.R.S. Section 24–74–103, which states that state agency employees may not disclose personal identifying information which […]
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Library Report: No decision from trustees yet on new age-restricted library card
The Garfield County Public Library District’s (GCPLD) Board of Trustees is not ready to make a decision on whether to create a new card for minors that would restrict their ability to check out certain books. At the board’s July 10 meeting in Glenwood Springs, some headway was made in discussing the new card and […]
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Myrna Fletchall to resign from GarCo Library District Board of Trustees
Close on the heels of Britton Fletchall’s June 19 resignation as president of the Garfield County Re-2 school board, his wife Myrna Fletchall submitted a letter to the Garfield County Library District announcing her resignation as a library board trustee. The Sopris Sun obtained a copy of her letter on Tuesday, June 24. Myrna, whose […]
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Library Report: Manga books will not be relocated; board to consider new access card for minors
The Garfield County Public Library District (GCPLD) will not relocate books that some members of the public consider unsuitable for children to read, library staff said at the board of trustees meeting on June 5. However, the board will consider a new library card at its July meeting that would restrict materials that minors could […]
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Letters – March 6, 2025
Library boardJocelyn Durrance was the Carbondale Branch Library’s trustee to the Garfield County Public Library District (GCPLD) board for five years and involved in library sciences for 30 years. Yet, she was recently replaced on the board for what appear to be strictly political reasons by the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC). Commissioner Tom Jankovsky […]
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Conservative play for library board worries former librarian
On Thursday, Feb. 27, the Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) will listen for a second time to candidates for the Glenwood Springs position on the Garfield County Library Board of Trustees. And Jocelyn Durrance, who served as a trustee representing Carbondale for five years, is worried. “I think there is a group within Garfield County who […]
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Letters – Jan. 9, 2025
Correction: There’s still time! The Town of Carbondale’s holiday tree recycling service across from Town Hall is operating through Feb. 2. Re: Ps&QsMrs. Perry opines all “Trumpublicans” foster a lack of opportunity, desperation and poverty for criminals. “They try to prevent education and acceptance.”Jeannie paints the majority of the U.S. electorate sporting horns while “following […]