Another barn-burner high school boys basketball matchup between Roaring Fork and Coal Ridge in Carbondale Tuesday night proved to be one for the scrapbooks. After a huge 50-39 win last week at Class 4A Aspen to help improve Roaring Fork’s 3A state power ranking to No. 7 coming into the week, the Rams needed another […]
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Rams Report: Roaring Fork basketball splits slate at Meeker in key league games
Roaring Fork High School’s boys basketball team secured its spot atop the 3A Western Slope League with a big win at Meeker on Jan. 24, while the girls suffered their first loss of the season but remain in the hunt for a league title. The boys team opened a 29-17 halftime lead and never looked […]
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The fact and fiction behind teen caffeine use
Teenage caffeine related hospital visits are rare, but the number of visits have roughly doubled over the past six years. That’s according to Indiana University’s Riley Children’s Health hospital, which analyzed over 223 million hospital visits of patients ages 11 to 35, from 2017 to 2023. According to a 2024 national poll by C.S. Motts […]
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Roaring Fork girls building bench strength with big test coming Saturday
Dominating wins over weak teams pad the record and the scorebook, but don’t do much in the statistical game that determines Colorado high school basketball rankings, and ultimately seeding for the postseason. Take the undefeated Roaring Fork High School girls basketball team, for example. The Rams, now 12-0 after annihilating Aspen 72-5 Tuesday night, held […]
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Roaring Fork hoops teams handle Basalt in rivalry meetup
A Basalt High School boys basketball team, hungry for their first win of the season, gave Roaring Fork all it could handle in the first half of play on the Rams’ home court in Carbondale Tuesday night. In the end, though, it was the high-powered Rams who pulled away for the 61-43 win to score […]
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Rams soccer advances to second round of 3A state playoffs
Roaring Fork downed Rocky Mountain Prep SMART 3-2 at Rams Field in Carbondale Wednesday evening to advance to the next round of the Class 3A state playoffs. The 16th-seeded Rams collected goals from senior Eli Norris and junior Cal Stone in the first half, and held a 2-1 advantage at halftime. Stone struck again in […]
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Must political diversity breed division?
The Roaring Fork Valley spans three counties and several voting districts. It includes members of all major political parties as well as a wide variety of lifestyles. Does this diversity breed a divide? Nationally, a clear social and political divide is emerging between generations, genders and the two major political parties. With this increasing divide, […]
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Wishing upon The Sopris Stars
We are proud to introduce The Sopris Stars, a youth publication funded by The Sopris Sun newspaper and dedicated to delivering news relevant to tweens, teens and young adults throughout the Roaring Fork Valley. Seven Gen-Z interns have come together in the noble pursuit of journalism and to curate this new publication, which will print […]
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From farm to table at CRMS
One of the core pillars of education at Colorado Rocky Mountain School (CRMS) is contributing back to the school community, so much so that service is incorporated into the weekly curriculum. One of the most established facets is its Garden Program, where students, alongside staff, plant, grow and harvest produce, which offsets 40% of the […]
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Local student-athletes earn top-10 finishes at state mountain biking championships
Carbondale was well-represented at the Colorado High School Cycling League State Mountain Biking Championships, held at the Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley campus trails last weekend, Oct. 18-19. Riding for Roaring Fork High School, senior Quinn Carpenter placed sixth overall out of 136 state qualifiers in the varsity boys race on Sunday afternoon. Carpenter was […]