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 →
Somerset
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Mar. 3, 2021
Ps & Qs: Twenty Years Ago
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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 →