With full hearts, we celebrate the life of Scott Bowie. Scott was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1949. After college, he set out to conquer all of Colorado’s 14ers. Upon arriving in Aspen, he stopped and never left. It’s where he met and married Betsy Thaete and began his career with Mollica and Associates — […]
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Barbara O’Neil Ross
Barbara O’Neil Ross was born in 1931 in New York City to Viola (née Dotterer) and Henry Eli O’Neil. From Greenwich, Connecticut, the family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Barbara attended the wonderful John Burroughs School, which nurtured her talent for art. She spent two years at Vassar College before transferring to Stanford University, […]
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Works in Progress – May 18, 2023
Glamour Girl: Beauty of Brevity Jan. 3, 2020 Rosemary Burkholder Like many a typical morning, I took my cup of black coffee to the back patio, situated where the sound of traffic from a nearby highway is muffled, for a peaceful welcoming to a new day. It was late spring, and I settled back into […]
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Carbondale goes to Colleywood!
Mainstreet was packed on May 12 with finely-clad folks in front of the Dinkel Building for back-to-back sold-out shows at the Crystal Theatre. Local celebrity Brian Colley arrived in style for the Carbondale premier of “Paint,” a major movie featuring the local artist’s paintings. During both showings, as well as a third showing on the […]
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Voices Radio Hour: Rebirth
By Nina Gabianelli VOICES Radio Hour I saw the blue and red lights flashing in my rearview mirror, then I heard the “whoop whoop” of the siren signaling me to pull over. My heart began beating very fast, and somewhere, deep inside me, I knew this was a moment of change. A “way too” familiar […]
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Works in Progress – May 11, 2023
Drivers Ed By Tom Mercer Alan sat in the driver’s seat of a shiny new car. He uttered a long sigh that carried the unmistakable tone of a man who was close to giving up. His throat was painfully dry from extreme thirst, and he had not eaten for 48 hours. Alan was traumatized, and […]
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Gayla Tippett September 8, 1953 – April 15, 2023
Former Carbondale and Glenwood Springs resident — storyteller, children’s librarian, arts director, actress, zoo worker — Gayla Jo Tippett died on April 15, 2023. She was 69. Gayla was born on Sept. 8, 1953, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Olin and Lois Jeanne Tippett, the youngest of four children from that marriage. After graduating from […]
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Carbondale pride
Carbondale celebrated First Friday with a family block party and Pride parade with some Cinco de Mayo flaire! Photos by Beth White Photos by Jeanne Souldern The Carbondale Rotary Club conducted its annual Fireball Drop fundraiser in Sopris Park on Friday. Exactly 1,000 ping pong balls were dropped from a fire truck ladder, […]
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Youth-run skate company holds strong
By Yesenia Benavides Youth Correspondent HAVOC Skate Company is a student-operated skateboard business based out of Yampah Mountain High School. The company got its start in 2017, and is still going strong. Back when he was a Yampah student himself, Jono Moreau, the founder of HAVOC, looked out for his fellow skaters. In 2006, the […]
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Recommended reading: ‘Blitz, Volume 1’
By Daniel Messer Glenwood Springs Library I picked up the first volume of “Blitz” by Cédric Biscay in order to participate in Garfield County Public Library District’s Winter Reading Challenge. For the challenge, I had to read a graphic novel, and, as a chess player, the idea of a manga about chess appealed to me. […]