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    Adjust, accommodate, repeat: Part two

    Adjust, accommodate, repeat: Part two thumbnail Larry Bogatz

    By Larry Bogatz

    Mature Content is a monthly feature from the Carbondale AARP Age-Friendly Community Initiative (CAFCI).

    I appreciated Marty Gallagher’s Mature Content column last month: “Adjust, Accommodate, Repeat.” We do this all our lives, in ways both great and small, from the moment we leave…

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    Scuttlebutt/Community Calendar - June 16, 2022

    Scuttlebutt/Community Calendar – June 16, 2022 thumbnail The Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District held a public demonstration on June 11 to show off the department’s new regional training facility. The event was well attended and even Sparky the Fire Dog showed up and gave his unwavering (tail excluded) approval. Pictured above, firefighters brace to put out a controlled blaze of a prop vehicle outside the new facility. Photo by Elizabeth Key

    Redstone drops
    Do you love The Sopris Sun and travel weekly between Redstone and Carbondale? We are seeking a volunteer to deliver a stack of our papers to Propaganda Pie, the Redstone General Store and the Redstone Inn every Thursday (or Friday). If you can help, email… read more →

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    "Feeling Walls" explores the fragile edge of art

    "Feeling Walls" explores the fragile edge of art thumbnail Sara Ransford's art sits in the sunlight at the Carbondale Clay Center, enlivened by Joey Glickman's plants. Photo by youth journalist Jaris Elliott.

    Sara Ransford has been living in the Valley since 1977, moving from Carbondale to Aspen, and then back to Carbondale. She worked as an art teacher at both the Carbondale Middle School and Carbondale Elementary School during the ‘80s and ‘90s, where she met Diane Kenney, a fellow art teacher… read more →