It’s early in the morning, well not as early as I’d hoped, and my first press day as editor of The Sopris Sun. The temperature has cooled and I hear rain drops splattering the gutters outside our window — as good of a sign one can hope for right about now. I know many of […]
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‘Pages of the Past’ to share stories of the storytellers
For Carbondale Historical Society Vice President Will Grandbois, the upcoming Winter Speaker Series event is particularly near and dear to his heart. “Pages of the Past” will delve into The Roaring Fork Valley Journal — predecessor of The Sopris Sun. Besides Grandbois having been editor of The Sun, his mother, Rebecca “Becky” Young, started The […]
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Pages of the Past: Celebrating 50 years of Carbondale newspapers
This look back at this month in history is drawn from the newspaper archive at the Carbondale Branch Library. Digitization efforts are underway, with 1975 through 1982 expected to be available at www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org this summer. Contact tkallassy@gcpld.org if you’re interested in supporting the project. Meanwhile, The Sun is in the process of binding issues from […]
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Connecting communities for 15 years
The Sopris Sun printed its first issue on Feb. 12, 2009 and — as stated above — has been connecting communities ever since. The Sun rose like a phoenix from the ashes of The Valley Journal, which served as the midvalley’s newspaper since the ‘70s, but was folded in 2008 by its parent company at […]
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One phone call and 15 years later…
By Elizabeth PhillipsFounding and Current Board Member A brief phone call from Rebecca Young was all it took. The Valley Journal of 34 years was closing. It was 2009, one year into a worldwide financial crisis. Small, local newspapers were rapidly folding as advertising revenues dropped. Even large newspapers were closing or merging. Rebecca knew […]
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Pages of the Past: ‘C’dale student wants to spend spring break in a Russian Prison’
From the archives of the Valley Journal and Sopris Sun March 4, 1982 Voting was open for sorority Zeta Epsilon’s woman of the year, with eight nominees. Valley native Betty deBeque was a Cub Scout den mother, president of the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce and had planned the memorial service for the 14 miners killed […]
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Pages of the past: Carbondale carries the torch
Feb. 18, 1982 Though they hadn’t been through two years of intermittent social distancing, folks still got cabin fever — so the Journal sought advice from Glenwood Springs psychologist Jerry Weinstock. He noted that the phenomenon was particularly prevalent in rural areas (which Carbondale certainly still was), since cities provide plenty of year-round diversion. He […]
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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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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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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 […]