Free wood chipsThe Town of Carbondale is giving away free wood chips created from the recycling of Christmas trees. The chips will be available until Feb. 8 (while supplies last) from the dumpster container in the dirt parking lot at 4th and Colorado. Harvest Roaring ForkThe Jan. 28 Garfield County Planning Commission public meeting to […]
Maeve Murray
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Opinion: Getting beneath the bullying
If you tell a bully to stop bullying, it’s not going to work. Let me put this a different way; if you tell a hurt individual to stop externalizing their pain and taking it out on others, it’s not going to work. Plain and simple, current anti-bullying strategies are non-effective and redundant. We must find […]
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Un futuro mejor
Traducción por Dolores Duarte YouthZone, un programa local que ayuda a los jóvenes a mejorar sus perspectivas de futuro busca ampliar la colaboración entre la población a la que sirve. Según su página web, YouthZone es una “organización sin fines de lucro que da prioridad a la familia y que se dedica a fomentar el […]
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A brighter future by and for the youth
YouthZone, a local program that helps young people improve their future outlook, is looking to expand collaboration among the population they serve. According to their website, YouthZone is a “family-first nonprofit dedicated to fostering positive youth development for teens that call the Western Slope their home.” YouthZone has a facility in Glenwood Springs that offers […]
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It’s time to step up our support for teachers
Teacher retention, and employee retention in general, has increasingly been a problem in the Roaring Fork Valley. Recently, it has become a crisis. As COVID-19 spread throughout the Valley and schools shut down, teachers were put under immense pressure and many even quit. There were many reasons for such high levels of turnover, including stress, […]