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10.Elected officials agree: Look into a new Garfield County bus system
Solution could involve fresh start or a new relationship with RFTA.
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9.Ironbridge affordable housing released from bankruptcy
Open house for available units this Saturday.
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8.Attorney: Civil lawsuits settled over wildfire near Carbondale
Those affected reach accord with Larry Gerbaz.
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7.Garfield County set for gas-well 'intervention'
Garfield County may end up intervening in a proposal by...

Have a heart - fill the cart
Thanks to the generous support of individuals and businesses, in 2009 LIFT-UP was able to help many of our neighbors in need through its food pantries, Extended Table soup kitchen and other avenues. Though the community is especially generous during the holidays, the need is great year-round. To help keep LIFT-UP's pantry filled, members of the First Presbyterian Church of Glenwood Springs will be collecting food in grocery carts in front of City Market and Safeway Feb. 13 and 14.
In particular, LIFT-UP is in...

Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938), an early and prominent Western author and illustrator, was one of the first women to make a living writing fiction about the West. The following is an excerpt from the introduction of my book, "Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote" (University of Nevada Press, 2009).

"Mary Hallock Foote was born at the right time and in the right place to take advantage of the cultural capital of her birth class and turn it into a money-making career. Talented and educated, she moved in the 1870s from New York state...

In light of the way our government is operating today, I was inspired to look up the definition of the word racket. Webster says, "Any method of exploitation for money, ranging from petty charlatanry, illicit business and gambling schemes to an organized extortion crime ring operating by the use of violence, with hired legal protection and bribery of politicians."
Read that again.
Just in case that didn't resonate with you, let me cite a few examples.
Consider the lottery. Gambling was illegal for many years and then our government realized that they...

For those undecided about wilderness
The following is for all those undecided (the independents) about the ongoing controversy to designate more land as "wilderness":
"It is not long since man thought of himself as the center of the universe, thought even of the Sun - the very source of all our life - as a light by day revolving about the Earth. As our new understanding has come - through science - science also has brought us many other new and wonderful discoveries, and the new knowledge of what we are has been overlooked by many of...

EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - We've all heard the stories: The economy's bad; people are leaving the valley. But are people really leaving?
It's hard to tell. Some people have left, of course. But families with kids seem to be riding out the economic slump here in the valley.
There's evidence that some people are leaving. The number of births at Vail Valley Medical Center in 2009 was down more than 100 from 2008. And auto registrations dropped by about 1,100 from 2008 to 2009.
Then there are other indicators.
Megan McGee-Banta, of Catholic Charities, said her office...