Spring sports for Colorado high schools are winding down over the next few weeks, as Roaring Fork High School’s girls lacrosse, girls soccer, and baseball teams aim to secure spots in the postseason playoffs. Leading the way with a good shot at a state title run is the combined Roaring Fork-Basalt-Glenwood-CRMS girls lacrosse team, which […]
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Ladies lacrosse moves into No. 3 spot in 4A state rankings
A string of convincing wins for the Roaring Fork High School girls lacrosse team has the Lady Rams ranked No. 3 among Class 4A teams in Colorado this week. Roaring Fork capped the latest run with an 18-6 win over Fruita-Monument on the home field in Carbondale on Tuesday, improving to 10-2 overall on the […]
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Glenwood Report: City withdraws from interagency SPEAR crimes task force
Glenwood Springs, on a 6-1 vote by City Council, is withdrawing from the interagency Special Problems Enforcement and Response (SPEAR) task force that’s headed up by the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, over concerns about potential information-sharing with federal immigration enforcement. At the April 16 City Council meeting, Glenwood Springs Police Chief Joseph Deras gave a […]
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Rams Report: Girls soccer finding their footing in league runup
After falling 3-0 to the 3A Western Slope League-leading Steamboat Springs Sailors on their home field April 8, Roaring Fork High School’s girls soccer team rebounded two days later to score a 10-0 confidence booster over Moffat County in front of the home crowd. Sophomore Annalise Bumgarner col-lected three goals in the match, with one […]
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Thursday group runs a way to connect, converse, cavort with other runners
Four or five miles can go by pretty fast when you get lost in conversation with a fellow runner during a casual jaunt around Carbondale. That’s often how it is at the Independence Run & Hike Thursday night Run Club, which can draw anywhere from four to 40 runners on a given week. Who knows, […]
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Swords to plowshares, turning weapons into tools
On Sunday, Feb. 15, the Western Slope Mennonite Fellowship hosted a book preview and blacksmith demonstration at Bethel Chapel in Glenwood Springs , where a crowd of participants took turns slowly transforming a gun into a garden tool. At the forge was Mike Martin, heating and turning a gunstock barrel, instructing participants where and how […]
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Scuttlebutt
Lift-UpdateLift-Up, the nonprofit operator of food pantries and supplementary food programs from Parachute to Aspen, announced on Dec. 18 that Samantha Freese will serve as the organization’s next executive director. Freese, a New Castle resident, has worked for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment as well as Mountain Valley Developmental Services and most recently […]
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Glenwood Report: City Council increases financial support for Canyon Vista housing project
Consideration of a request to up Glenwood Springs’ financial contribution to the Canyon Vista affordable housing project in West Glenwood to what would amount to $3.8 million total occupied most of the Thursday, Dec. 4 City Council meeting. All Council members were present in-person for the first regular meeting of December. After about two hours […]
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‘Eso es realmente lo que hace que un periódico local sea grandioso: la gente’
El periodismo comunitario ha sido la misma definición de mis más de tres décadas en el oficio. Y no podría amarlo más que en mi función actual como uno de los muchos corresponsales independientes de The Sopris Sun. Mi primera firma, aparte de las publicaciones estudiantiles, llegó cuando era un joven estudiante de periodismo en […]
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For What It’s Worth: The Sopris Sun continues to be community journalism at its finest
Community journalism has been the very definition of my more than three decades in the trade. And I couldn’t love it more than in my current role as one of the many freelance correspondents for The Sopris Sun. My very first byline, aside from student publications, came as a young journalism major in college, when […]