The Town of Carbondale officially recognized Indigenous People’s Day at a trustee meeting on Sept. 24, 2019. Annual events to commemorate the day have been organized since by Roaring Fork Valley Circle and, this year, 350 Roaring Fork collaborated on events in Carbondale as well. This year’s celebration reaffirmed Carbondale’s growing awareness of the rebranded […]
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Seventh annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration returns to Sopris Park
350 Roaring Fork and Roaring Fork Valley Circle invite all community members to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, Oct. 12, with events in Sopris Park and at Third Street Center in Carbondale. A gathering will be held at Sopris Park from 3:30 to 5:30pm with a Seven Directions circle ceremony, readings of Nuche history, […]
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Extra, extra!The Sopris Sun is among nine Colorado media outlets to receive a $100,000 grant from Press Forward, a national initiative led by the Miami Foundation to shore up local news. The first phase of this grant was awarded to 205 for-profit and nonprofit news organizations with budgets under $500,000. At least one newsroom in […]
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Scuttlebutt & Calendar – Oct. 12, 2023
Welcoming Brian Lorch Colorado Wild Public Lands, an organization dedicated to monitoring land exchanges and advocating on behalf of the public, hired Brian Lorch as its first full-time executive director. Lorch worked for nearly two decades leading Summit County’s open space and trails program. During that time, he worked closely with the Forest Service and […]
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Scuttlebutt / Calendar – Oct. 14, 2021
Free application days To encourage more Coloradans to continue their education, 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado, as well as several private institutions, will allow students to apply for free from Tuesday, Oct. 19 through Thursday, Oct. 21. View the list of participating college at https://bit.ly/AppfeeENG Raising A Reader leadership Local early childhood literacy nonprofit […]