What to do with rice By Jeff Alan If you really love rice like I do, your theme song could be “Rice Is Nice” from the ‘60s band The Lemon Pipers. When it comes to eating white or brown rice, just having it plain can be boring. There are many things that you can put […]
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Roaring Fork girls go undefeated to win Brenda Patch Basketball Tournament
A pair of dominating wins for the Roaring Fork High School girls basketball team at their home Brenda Patch Tournament over the weekend set up an exciting Saturday championship game. The Rams easily defeated Basalt 68-27 to open the tournament on Thursday, Dec. 5, and handled Class 4A Steamboat Springs 46-26 on Friday night. That […]
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Basalt Report: Midland Ave to host ribbon cutting this Friday
This week, the Town of Basalt announced a ribbon cutting for the nearly-completed Midland Streetscape Project, and also approved a regional emission reduction roadmap which hopes to steer Eagle County toward net-zero emissions by 2030. Town Manager Ryan Mahoney kicked off this week’s meeting recommending the allocation of Basalt’s discretionary grant and tobacco tax funding. […]
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C’dale Report: Budget ruling postponed, pool add alternates approved
All members of the Carbondale Board of Trustees were present for Tuesday’s meeting with the exception of Ross Kribbs. Following the recognition of the students of the month, the board passed the consent agenda, which included a special event permit for an upcoming student art show at Colorado Mountain College’s Carbondale campus, a liquor license […]
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Rebel Without a Clue at 22, Alive at 75 By Bryan WhitingGlenwood Springs Looking back on his own life, Bryan Whiting imparts what it takes to be successful. Most of us have learned our parents were wiser than we thought. Our parents attempted to reduce our errors of judgement by imparting their wisdom, but […]
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Basalt’s bid for state football title falls short
Despite a resilient performance in front of the home fans that had the Basalt High School football team within striking distance of the school’s first-ever trip to a championship game, the Longhorns ultimately bowed out with a 41-28 loss to The Classical Academy (TCA) on Saturday, Nov. 23. Coming into the game with identical 11-0 […]
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No agreement on library trustee appointment process after library board, county commissioner meeting
Garfield County Commission Chair ProTem Tom Jankovsky told everyone at Thursday’s public meeting with the Garfield County Library District Board of Trustees to stick to the topic at hand: an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) between the library board of trustees and the commissioners. “I know there is a disagreement and it’s probably between members of the […]
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Another paving milestone on Midland
This week, Basalt Town Council was half-staffed for its pre-Thanksgiving meeting when the council discussed the latest construction on Midland Avenue as well as some additional construction on Two Rivers Road to repair a water line. In lieu of Mayor David Knight, Councilor Ryan Slack acted as the chair for this week’s meeting, which was […]
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Seeking Haystacks: Keep my eyes on the prize
Years ago, for the final in my class, we listened to a talk by Bryan Stevenson, the civil rights lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. It is a brilliant talk by a singular human being. He ended with the quote below. “ … I believe that many of you understand that the moral […]
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Artificial Inteligence By Tom MercerCarbondale-ish Eddy Martin was about as happy as he could be. The reason? Eddy had just hooked up with the very latest version of Domestic Artificial Intelligence (AI-16) . He had registered for domestic AI three months earlier, but the provider was swamped with new subscribers which made the wait inevitable. […]