Last Wednesday afternoon, the colorful balloon arches and a customary ribbon-cutting ceremony provided a joyous backdrop for the long-awaited grand opening of Carbondale’s newest restaurant, the Jalisco Grill.Owned by Armando and Maria Vidrio, natives of Jalisco, Mexico, this marks their third restaurant venture in the Roaring Fork Valley, alongside establishments in Basalt and Rifle.The restaurant, […]
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Habitat ups the housing ante with 1% broker campaign
Habitat for Humanity of the Roaring Fork Valley is all about changing the regional affordable housing game. A new giving campaign plus plans to build a modular home manufacturing plant in Rifle might move the game piece forward several more spaces. Recently, Habitat RFV launched its new 1% “Sell a Home, Help Build a Home” […]
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Bears spoil Homecoming party in 55-27 win over Longhorns
First-year coach Ty Leyba and the Rifle Bears went into Friday night’s matchup against the Basalt Longhorns aiming to break multiple streaks. Not only had Basalt opened the season with five wins out of five, the Longhorns had gone 16 straight regular season games without a loss. The Bears had not tasted victory against the […]
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El Rincón del Sargento: Una perspectiva desde la patrulla
Eran las 5 de la tarde un sábado, me faltaba poco para terminar mi turno. Había respondido a varias llamadas de servicio durante el día y estaba un poco cansado. Mi uniforme pesa entre 30 a 40 libras y cargarlo por doce horas es agotador. De pronto escuché una llamada de servicio por el radio […]
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El Rincón del Sargento: No secretos, solo sorpresas
Seguido buscamos formas de protegernos de extraños. Sentimos que el riesgo viene de lo desconocido. Por lo contrario, cuando sentimos que tenemos algo en común con alguien, le abrimos las puertas de nuestra privacidad. Un dicho conocido dice, “más vale malo por conocido, que bueno por conocer.” La frase nos recuerda que es mejor tener […]
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Channeling the greatness of Prince
You can expect plenty of purple and lace at the Ute Theater and Events Center in Rifle on April 2. That’s when musician Marshall Charloff asks us to join him, and party like it’s 2022, at two Prince tribute shows — The Purple Piano: The One-Man Tribute to Prince and Marshall Charloff and the Purple […]
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Bill Morrow’s sculptures find home
“I have absolutely no fear of dying.” Bill Morrow, 75 years old, stepped inside from working on a 2002 Buick Rendezvous to join The Sopris Sun by phone. “I’m actually looking forward to the opportunity. But I can’t do it until this sculpture is gone.” Morrow refers to more than a dozen sculptures, spanning subjects, […]
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Restoring Rifle habitat
As mountain meadowlarks called out, Lisa Tasker buzzed about Rifle Creek’s banks among a sea of small pink flags emerging from the ground. She delivered cottonwood, willow, rose, serviceberry, sumac sage, and oak saplings to be planted at each flag to about 30 shovel-bearing volunteers organized by Middle Colorado Watershed Council and Wilderness Workshop. These […]