The Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) held their first regular meeting of March at the Garfield County Sheriff Annex outside of Rifle. It was a quick meeting — just over an hour long — with one particularly divisive item on the agenda: a resolution declaring Garfield County as a “non-sanctuary” county.Commissioner Mike Samson began by thanking […]
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GarCo Report: New year, new subdivision, old library woes
John Martin was absent from 2024’s first Garfield County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) meeting. Commissioner Tom Jankovsky chaired the meeting, which was short. First thing, Silt resident and library malcontent John Lepkowski was back, carrying a satchel with at least two manga books in it and complaining that the manga series in the Silt Library […]
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GarCo Report: Budget season, libraries and ice rinks
Commissioner Mike Sampson was not present during the Monday, Oct. 9 regular Garfield County commissioners board meeting. Budget Officer Fred Jarman and Finance Director Jamaica Watts presented the staff’s proposed budget for 2024. Jarman mentioned that the county’s 2023 revenue included the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, “and that resulted in a smaller reduction […]
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GarCo Report: Easy solution to Garco library issue, says Tom Jankovsky
Commissioners began the meeting by approving a resolution commemorating Constitution Week and Patriot’s Day, presented by Linda Morcom of the Captain Richard Sopris Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The rest of the meeting was short with approvals of the consent agenda, a liquor license for the upcoming Journey […]
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GarCo Report: Growing pains and the strange case of José Belardi
Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) this week took a look at a 100-year-old Colorado murder case. It all has to do with a requested name change for a place called Dead Mexican Gulch, near the Devil’s Causeway in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area in northern Garfield County. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board (CGNAB), which was […]
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Martin leaves legacy of human connection and laughter
If you walked in on Garfield County’s Senior Programs Manager Judy Martin’s retirement party on Friday, June 30, your ears were met with a sound of boisterous laughter and joy. Every seat was filled with community members who came to bid her adieu. Most in attendance had lots of life-experience and knew Martin through her […]
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GarCo Report: Shortest meeting of the year, so far
A new face graced the first Garfield County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting of 2023 on Monday. Jackie Harmon in her new seat as county clerk and recorder-elect joined relative newcomers Bentley Henderson, deputy county manager, and Heather Beattie, county attorney, at the meeting. Newly-elected officials will be officially sworn in during a special ceremony on Tuesday, […]
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Ryan Gordon desafía a Tom Jankovsky para el puesto de GarCo
Traducción por Dolores Duarte Durante tres términos, desde 2011, el republicano Tom Jankovsky ha servido en la Junta de Comisionados del Condado de Garfield (BOCC por sus siglas en inglés). Este noviembre, los votantes decidirán si conceden a Jankovsky un cuarto término o eligen al demócrata Ryan Gordon para representar el Distrito 1. El Sopris […]
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Ryan Gordon challenges Tom Jankovsky for GarCo seat
For three terms, since 2011, Republican Tom Jankovsky has served on Garfield County’s Board of County Commissioners (BOCC). This November, voters will decide whether to grant Jankovsky a fourth term or elect Democrat Ryan Gordon to represent District 1. The Sopris Sun interviewed each candidate individually about their motivations to run, the challenges they see […]
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GarCo report: Valley Meals fights for funding
Once the Garfield County commissioners meeting commenced on Oct. 18, Mary Kenyon with Valley Meals and More, based in Carbondale, addressed the board. Valley Meals and More serves hot meals from local restaurants to roughly 100 senior citizens at their homes within, or near, Carbondale up to five days a week (Monday through Friday). “My […]