En estos días celebramos el nacimiento del Sol del Valle, y un año de éxito. Lo que parecía un sueño descabellado y sin valor, hoy se levanta con cuerpo y con sueños. Un año de planeación, esfuerzo, cambios, pero sobre todo de victoria, ya que pese a todas las adversidades, el Sol salió para el […]
The Sopris Sun
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You can take our bags but not our bingo
From the archives of The Valley Journal and Sopris Sun Jan. 21, 1982 Carbondale Trustees approved a $3.5 million Industrial Revenue Bond (IRB) to support the construction of a strip mall at the southwest corner of Main Street and Highway 133. The so-called “Mall at Roaring Fork” would feature a 23,000 square-foot Circle Supers grocery […]
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A toast to the stories yet untold
How to sum up a year like 2021? Chinese Astrology deemed it the “Year of the Metal Ox,” which I associate with a lot of hard work. And indeed it was. Mentally, emotionally, physically — we’ve all been challenged to rise above exceedingly difficult circumstances. Or, at least, to rise out of bed and seek […]
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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, […]
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Pages of the past: You’ve gotta have a website
From the archives of the Valley Journal, Sopris Sun and Roaring Fork Rampage Dec. 3, 1981 The Aspen Center for the Visual Arts was hosting the first major display of the late Frank Mechau’s work in the Valley — where he spent his boyhood and final years. Many of the pieces were on loan by […]
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Mary Lilly, The Sopris Sun and legacy giving
In the summer of 2018, in the midst of the calamitous Lake Christine Fire and as a persistent drought gripped the region, an extraordinary thing happened in our community. Checks began arriving at various organizations in the area from the estate of Carbondale grand dame Mary Lilly, who had passed away two years earlier just […]
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Pages of the Past: "I do my shopping at the Dumpsters of Satank"
From the archives of The Valley Journal and The Sopris Sun Nov. 25, 1981 The USDA Forest Service was considering allowing gas exploration in two parcels of the Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness Area — one at the base of Sopris and one near Placita Creek — as well as some in the West Elks, Raggeds […]