In recognition of its expanding services, Family Visitors Program (FVP) has changed its name to Great Expectations. Rebranding for the Glenwood Springs-based nonprofit, founded in 1983, was announced in May by Executive Director Andrew Romanoff, with reassurance that its mission — “to strengthen and empower families, foster the optimum development of children and prevent child […]
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5Point’s first-ever pitch event
In a much-anticipated event at last weekend’s 5Point Adventure Film Festival, the first-ever 5Point Adventure Filmmakers Pitch Event was christened. Ryan Ernstes was announced as the winning filmmaker at the Saturday night film program. The award ensures Ernstes’ film “Diagonal” will have its premiere screening at next year’s 5Point festival. On Saturday afternoon, Ernstes presented […]
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A.O. Forbes’ odyssey to CRMS
A.O. Forbes is retiring from teaching, having completed his 33rd year at Colorado Rocky Mountain School (CRMS), a school he attended and graduated from in 1969. To encapsulate Forbes’ legacy — as a teacher, coach, mentor, husband, father and grandfather — in one newspaper article, led us to discuss topics central to a well-lived life: […]
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5Point Film Festival is a crowning jewel
The 5Point Adventure Film Festival is one of the multifaceted jewels in the adventure film festival crown, which includes Mountainfilm in Telluride, the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in California and the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Alberta, Canada. Luis Yllanes, who took over as executive director of Carbondale-based 5Point Film last December, happily announced […]
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Addressing Colorado’s last-place mental health finish
On March 2, the Colorado Legislature introduced House Bill 22-1278 (HB 1278) to create the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA). This cabinet-level state agency would take on issues at the center of Colorado’s torn and tattered mental health care system. The bill outlines the duties and responsibilities of the BHA, some of which are to ensure […]
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Bookworms find cozy digs at Carbondale bookstore
Yes, you read that right. Carbondale has a bookstore again. White River Books is located on Second Street, between Main Street and the Rio Grande Trail. Owner Izzy Stringham said, since welcoming her first customers on March 3, “pretty much everyone is over the moon that there’s a bookstore back in town.” Carbondale has not […]
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Aspen Strong offers much-needed ‘Time to Talk’
Aspen Strong’s mental health peer support group, “Time to Talk,” began in December 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by “providing people with a space to come, connect and talk about whatever they’re going through. To find a space where they could share their stories openly and find the resources that they needed,” explained […]
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More than ‘the thrift store’
If you have ever gazed up from the doorway of the building located at the corner of Third and Main in Carbondale, you will have spied a blue sign with yellow lettering that reads: Rebekah Lodge. Many locals know it as the Near New or, more informally, as “the thrift store.” This building serves as […]
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Two Rivers Community School to join Roaring Fork School District
On Jan. 12, the Roaring Fork School District (RFSD) Board of Education voted unanimously to approve the Two Rivers Community School’s (TRCS) application for district authorization, moving them one step closer to becoming an RFSD-member school. TRCS opened in 2014 in Glenwood Springs as a K-8 charter school operating under the Colorado Charter School Institute’s […]
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Winter farmer’s market provides local delights
Carbondale Art’s annual Deck the Walls Artisan Market will also feature a winter farmer’s market this year, on Dec. 18 (from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and Dec. 19 (from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.) at The Launchpad. Alongside the work of 55 local artisans filling the Deck the Walls boutique with unique holiday gifts, […]