Opinion – The Sopris Sun

Locations: Opinion By Kate Phillips Published May. 27, 2020

Let’s race towards each other

A few weeks ago I asked to take a step back from COVID-19 writing.

As I’m sure you can imagine, every article that I’ve written since the start of March has had an element of the pandemic woven into it — understandably so. For months, COVID-19… read more →

Locations: Opinion By Laurel Smith Published May. 21, 2020

To the class of 2020: I hope we are not forgotten

After four years, last Friday I graduated from Colorado Mountain College with my A.A.S. in professional photography. It has been a long journey starting with taking night classes while still teaching elementary school fulltime and ending with one final Zoom critique at my kitchen table.

I… read more →

Locations: Opinion By Geneviève Villamizar Published May. 13, 2020

Branching Out: Let’s seize the moment to help the planet

As I write this, I am pulling my head up from a miasma of research. I don’t like data, or black and white — things without wiggle room or a fudge-factor paralyze me. Gray areas are usually my comfort zone. And I don’t like professional jargon; it intimidates… read more →

Locations: Opinion By Roberta McGowan Published May. 13, 2020

A century’s worth

On May 14, my uncle turned 100. That sort of takes my breath away..

Dr. Morris Ossias is my late mother’s youngest brother born as the Roaring ‘20s was just getting underway, and the Great Depression was a looming unknown out in the misty future.

Will Call: Seeking serenity, courage and wisdom

Two months ago, May and the Colorado Press Association (CPA) Convention seemed far away and out of COVID-19’s reach. Today, the fact that we pulled off our annual Mother’s Day edition seems like a small miracle — although, in fact, it’s due to tremendous effort by Mark Burrows… read more →

Locations: Opinion By Megan Tackett Published Apr. 29, 2020

A tough time for us all

This is a difficult column to write because, well, it’s a difficult time. For everyone. Even as public discourse is shifting to how to responsibly reopen our economies, futures remain uncertain, and nobody is facing exactly the same predicaments in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Striving for balance

A comment from a local physician recently really stuck with me: “We are in as good of shape as anywhere in the country.”

He was referring to the state of local healthcare, but I am convinced his statement equally applies to the state of our local… read more →

Locations: Opinion By Ken Pletcher Published Apr. 15, 2020

Grocery shopping in the time of COVID-19

My wife and I are both “senior citizens,” and while that status does have its perks — free rides on RFTA, discounted Skico season passes — it also has apparently become a liability in this age of the coronavirus pandemic. We are in one of the at-risk categories.… read more →

Locations: Opinion By Will Grandbois Published Apr. 8, 2020

We are still here!

Amid the uncertainty of closures and cancellations on March 19, I fear I cast doubt on the future of The Sopris Sun by suggesting that we might temporarily suspend our print edition.

It was, and still is, on the table. If we had any reason to… read more →

Locations: Opinion Published Apr. 8, 2020

A local’s diary of the Spanish Flu

By Eleanor Clagett Reed
Courtesy of Shelle DeBeque

During our fifth year, in the late summer and fall of 1918, the Spanish Influenza swept into Western Colorado on its devastating march across the continent.

Carbondale’s only doctor had been drafted into… read more →