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Locations: Letters, Opinion Published Oct. 19, 2022

Letters - Oct. 20, 2022

Water plan
As a 19-year-old who grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley and deeply appreciates the importance of water in all of our lives, I couldn’t help but notice that Colorado is revising the state’s water plan. While the Colorado Water Conservation Board recognizes the… read more →

Locations: Letters, Opinion Published Aug. 10, 2022

Letters - Aug. 11

Re: Lumberyard
I think the new lumberyard will have some negative effects not mentioned in last week’s article. I would expect the folks at CRMS will hear the beep-beep-beep of backup alarms from the forklifts and loaders starting at some very early hour. And during temperature… read more →

Locations: Columns, Opinion Published Jun. 15, 2022

Adjust, accommodate, repeat: Part two

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…

Scuttlebutt/Community Calendar - June 16, 2022

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 →

Locations: News By Sofie Koski Published Nov. 17, 2021

"Feeling Walls" explores the fragile edge of art

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 →