As we reflect on 2025, a difficult year by many measures, I wish to raise a cheers to every conscious effort made to share kindness and understanding. Here at The Sopris Sun, we strive to be a bridge to many places and, most importantly, between people. This isn’t achieved by casting judgement, but honoring each […]
Year in review
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Year in Review 2025
For many, 2025 was a challenging year. Institutions, identities, entire industries were foundationally rocked. Notably, the list of obituaries was exceptionally long and included many community staples. For months, there were protests nearly every week. From outer instability, we were challenged to draw on inner strength and the Roaring Fork Valley rose to the occasion. […]
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2024 Year in Review
Look at all you’ve done this past year, “Carbondale, the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond,” — to quote KDNK! It’s been one heck of a cycle and The Sopris Sun has done its best to roll with the punches and deliver the news as it comes; there certainly was no shortage in 2024. The Sun […]
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Year in Review: 2023
The events of 2023 evoked much compassion, perhaps even challenging our capacity to care without being overwhelmed as our world slides into unfamiliar terrain. The “Year of the Water Rabbit” in Chinese astrology has certainly been emotional and fast-paced. If 2022 was a return to “normalcy,” 2023 had us sprinting to keep up with the […]
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2022 in review
Another year has come and gone with hardship and success. We at The Sopris Sun offer this brief look back at just a few of the headline happenings. January At the beginning of the year, a surge of Omicron, the prevailing COVID-19 variant, had local governments reinstating indoor mask mandates as free testing centers saw […]
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Year in Review 2021: When was normal?
Dec. 21, 2020 — a grand conjunction between planets Saturn and Jupiter, on the solstice, signaled the beginning of “a new epoch,” in the words of Sopris Sun columnist Whitney Will (Sun Signs), “that will see us through until the year 2219.” Year one of that nearly 200 year epoch was a rollercoaster for shared […]