Sections: Opinion By Megan Tackett Published Jun. 5, 2019

$5 a day keeps the college loan sharks away

Chances are, if you’re one of the proud parents of a recent graduate, this piece is not for you. My hope is that you’ve already completed your child’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and your family is excited for what’s ahead.

But if you’re a parent… read more →

Sections: Opinion By John Colson Published May. 15, 2019

Help The Sun rise through the Summer Solstice

In this edition of The Sopris Sun, we kick off our Spring 2019 fundraising campaign in the midst of celebrating our 10th year of providing news, views and other information about Carbondale — the town where we rose out of the ashes of the old Valley Journal to keep… read more →

Sections: Opinion By Judith Ritschard Published May. 8, 2019

Mexicans don't ski?

I don’t know about you, but I’m still buzzing with fuzzy good feelings days and days after attending the 5Point Film Festival. One film that caught my attention this year was The Brotherhood of Skiing, a film about an organization of black skiers that started in 1973.… read more →

Sections: Opinion By Teka Israel Published Apr. 10, 2019

Nature on edge in side-by-side Martin, Gurley exhibits

Robert Martin’s exhibition leaves out no details.

From the watercolor and ink to the detail in his wood, metal and paint sculptures, it is evident that Martin loves the west. Each watercolor and sculpture provide an entertaining glimpse of an imagined scene in nature. Although they… read more →

Sections: Opinion By Stan Badgett Published Mar. 27, 2019

Mutt & Jeff: Memories of the Bastille

At the entrance to Eldorado Canyon stands a rock tower, the Bastille, named after the gloomy prison stormed during the French Revolution.

It is 350 feet high, dark and bulky, yet stately, like its namesake. It rises crisp and vertical, an emphatic statement in rust-red… read more →

Sections: Opinion By Illene Pevec Published Mar. 20, 2019

What I did with my parents’ bodies

want to share our experience of handling my parent’s end of life process as this may help others.

My mother died in August, 2014. My father died last May. In both cases my children and I cared for them at home as neither wanted… read more →

Sections: Opinion By Nicolette Toussaint Published Mar. 20, 2019

Seeking Higher Ground: Get swept away by beauty, not an avalanche

Several of my friends have described me as “fearless,” but it’s not true. Since adolescence, avalanches have left me frozen in fear.

Like so many mountain folk, I knew someone killed by one.

I remember the anxious buzz that rose in the ski patrol… read more →

Sections: Opinion By Wick Moses Published Mar. 20, 2019

A brief history of local broadcasting

In September of 1963, I got on the train in Springfield, Mass. and two days later got off in Glenwood Springs.

I was starting at Colorado Rocky Mountain School as a sophomore and besides having an electric guitar and amp, I had a Sony transistor… read more →

Sections: Opinion By Nicolette Toussaint Published Mar. 6, 2019

TRTC’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ brings audience to its feet

Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) brings John Steinbeck’s depression-era novella vividly to life in “Of Mice and Men.”

The action opens with George Milton (Corey Simpson), chiding Lennie Small (Owen O’Farrell) for drinking water from a muddy stream while rough-camping near Soledad. George and Lennie are two “bindlestiffs”… read more →

Sections: Columns, Opinion By Will Grandbois Published Dec. 26, 2018

There’s plenty new under The Sun

This time of year has, historically, not been the best for Carbondale newspapers.

In addition to the editor dying from Spanish Flu on Christmas 1918, there’s the whole matter of The Valley Journal closing with barely a goodbye on Christmas, 2008. I’ve left that to… read more →