Somerset

• Locations: Columns, Opinion By Jeannie Perry Published Mar. 3, 2021

  Ps & Qs: Twenty Years Ago

  Ps & Qs By Jeannie Perry

  Twenty years ago, the Carbondale cops knew me. I lived a couple of miles outside of town and sometimes they would give me a ride if I was walking home late at night (the nice ones would even stop by 7/11 for nachos). My husband worked part-time as a bartender… read more →

• Locations: Columns Published Feb. 17, 2021

  Somerset left in the lurch

  

  Only about 100 people live in Somerset in western Colorado, a former coal company town squeezed into a narrow valley. A state highway and railroad tracks crowd on one side, the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the other.
  Some say there’s charm in the town’s narrow… read more →