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Story telling is a powerful tool. It gives voice to universal human truths, creates empathy between disparate viewpoints, fosters human connection and provides an outlet to those traditionally cast aside.
And it s the premise that is central to Carbondale based organization VOICES, whose mission is to make sure everyone s voice in the community gets heard. ....
VOICES Summertime Stories & Music is featuring “HerStory,” empowering stories from women in the Roaring Fork Valley. “We wanted to focus on the strong women in this valley, and how the community was shaped, especially. ....
Self-serving NIMBYism As fourth-generation natives of Colorado, 30-plus-year residents of the valley and a 15-year resident of Missouri Heights (Kat), we would like to express sadness and disappointment in the recent, greedy, self-serving NIMBYism and its division of this beautiful community. To claim that you are “keeping Missouri Heights rural” is hypocrisy at its finest. Missouri Heights ceased to be rural decades ago, and to claim that a small camp, open for a few months annually, will have more impact on the neighborhood than 15-25 McMansions is ludicrous. The SuperPAC (for lack of a better term) against Ascendigo is not about stewardship of the neighborhood, nor the land, rather it is about aesthetics and status. We are disgusted by the two commissioners’ decision and the fact that once again, in the tradition of all things Aspen, the whiny people with the most money triumph. In this case a great organization offering a truly valuable service to the communi ....