To the greater Basalt community and stakeholders of the Roaring Fork Weekly Journal,
Spring is a time of renewal. It is a time for us, as individuals and as a community, to look at what surrounds u…
Carol Hawk
Leroy Duroux, former mayor
Jim Light
The scene at Target on Saturday, well into the Great Toilet Paper Scare of 2020: 12 feet of barren shelves where…
A hell of a week, indeed
James W. Light
As a young wrangler, I was inspired hearing tales of an old horse trader with a fast, white mule. Horse owners c…
JM Jesse
Jeffrey Evans
Zuleika Pevec
Mmmm, the smells of spring are in the air! You know them, the marriage of damp horse manure from the fields waft…
Toni Kronberg
It was the fall of 1975 and cattle prices had hit a record low. One old cow with a bad eye sold at auction for f…
Oliver Fox-Rubin of Basalt is one of those kids who is a doer, not just a talker. Last year when he discovered t…
Many people are intensely focused on the strange and disturbing activities emanating from our nation’s capital. …
Rural residents pay the same county taxes as everyone else. They pay into the Healthy Community Fund for open sp…
Erika Leavitt
Editor:
In a microbiology class at Colorado State University, we studied a Middle Eastern technique used for tanning lea…
JM Jesse
Suzanne Jackson
Math wasn’t my strong suit in school. I guess by the time equations started including letters and symbols instea…
This is going to sound ironic, considering I’m sitting at Whole Foods as I write this, but I don’t like Whole Fo…
Douglas MacDonald
Your fellow Colorado elected officials
Teaching our kids (and ourselves) how to share the Basalt Public Library
“Y’all can go to hell, I’m going to Texas” – Davy Crockett
Marjorie MacDonald
We have all done it. Skipped a meal, grabbed a granola bar instead of breakfast, or even nuked a Ramen Noodle pa…
We’re shocked, shocked that there’s cheating in Major League Baseball
Your Valley’s Roaring Fork Audubon Society
Lisa Dameron
Dorothea Farris
Ted Tiernan
Against conventional wisdom, it’s time to get personal about politics. Of all the Trump supporters I know, none …
I currently have three doggos: An 80-pound brown lab, a 40-pound black curly mutt and an 11-pound white Chihuahua mix.
Three weeks into my ski-season retirement gig as a pearl diver at an undisclosed restaurant in the Aspen area, a…
"In the Mexican culture, probably because equines are still commonly used in rural areas, equines are always ref…
As those of us who reside in the Mid-Valley know, there are plenty of factors that make this a great place to li…
Lynne Pfrimmer Mace
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? Underneath, ice is glistening. Not a beautiful sight, we’re not happy toni…
Twenty years ago this New Year’s Eve, I was a 26-year-old celebrating the new millennium at the historic barn my…
Hilary Burgess
One thing I wish I’d done before my parents passed away: Asked them about my earliest memories, so I’d know if t…
A Muletide Story
Deb Sullivan and Jeff Hauser
Toni Kronberg
I love this time of year with the snowfall, holidays and my fireplace. In true Scandinavian style of “hygge,” I …
