As the festival starts its new life this weekend, will Visit Estes Park’s mission to “professionalize it” improve it or ruin it?
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An old Grand Junction ball court came back to life with a game that hadn’t been played there for nearly 50 years
Pro-level athletes competed in a Basque handball exhibition last weekend, bringing lamb, red wine and community spirit
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Nicolais: Our shared communities — from soccer bar to the church pews — make sure we never walk alone
Between my deadline for this column and its publication in the wee morning hours of Sunday, I will attend a wake at my beloved soccer bar, the British Bulldog. Or maybe it is a memorial, I am not quite sure. What I do know is that a community will be gathering. A community that included […]
Posted inClimate, Coloradans, News, Wildfire
Amid the charred ruins of Colorado wildfires, a sense of community evolves with the rebuild
About this story: Sun staff writer Kevin Simpson wrote and compiled this account with contributions from Jason Blevins, Jennifer Brown, Tamara Chuang, Shannon Najmabadi and Olivia Prentzel. Kiki Turner stood in front of the house where she grew up, now a pile of ashes in a scorched and flattened neighborhood. She could see for miles, […]
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Opinion: If you’re going to put us on your focus group, maybe you should put us on your payroll
Nearly five years ago, I sat in the Aurora Public Library with other parents who received both Medicaid and benefits from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as WIC. We carried our infants or newborns, spread out with our strollers and diaper bags, all consenting to receive a $25 […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
The coronavirus wasn’t my problem. And then came the onset of symptoms.
I’d been one of the lucky ones during the COVID-19 pandemic. I don’t know anyone who has tested positive, and I’d remained healthy throughout the last few months. Honestly, COVID-19 started to feel like a far-off media story that wasn’t impacting my community. At the same time, Colorado was about to hit 28,000 cases. So […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
I learned about neighborly love from my grandmother. We’ll need it more than ever now.
My mom used to call me a social butterfly—I would come home from my first day of school with a dozen new “best friends,” or likely I was getting pulled out of the classroom for talking too much (sorry to all my former teachers). I always thought my social nature made me unique, that I […]
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The coronavirus confronts each of us with a question: What’s essential?
Yesterday my Twitter feed included a post from a connection enthusiastically supporting the announcement that New Jersey would include liquor stores in its list of essential services, allowing them to stay open during the stay-at-home order. In addition to a chuckle, it got me thinking about determinations of essential services and about my two-year, and […]