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Welcome to Carbondale, Colorado! The picturesque town of Carbondale is located 170 miles west of Denver, 12 miles from Glenwood Springs, and 30 miles from Aspen in the heart of Colorado's central Rocky Mountains. At an altitude of 6,181 feet, and resting in the magnificent shadow of 12,953-foot Mount Sopris, the Carbondale area is characterized by an average of 295 days of sunshine, low humidity, cold but mild winters and comfortable summers.

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Carbondale Area NewsSaturday March 13, 2010

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - With a lot of girls and not a lot preseason practice time, little is set in stone for coach Phyllis Zilm's Glenwood Springs tennis team.
Led by a sizable cast of veterans, 28 girls are out for the Demons in 2010. How the lineup shakes out remains to be seen.
Regardless of who plays where, Zilm likes her team's depth.
"We have a big group," said the coach, taking a break from clearing local tennis courts of snow on Friday. "We may be a little stronger than last year. We have a little bit more depth. Some of the girls that played last year before are now ready to play varsity. It's certainly a nice group of girls."
Among the returners is Courtney Bender, a Colorado Rocky Mountain School senior who plays with Glenwood and finished third in No. 2 singles at the 4A Region 8 tournament last spring.
Also returning are Madison McCallum, Cari Barber, Whitney Bridger and Brandi Vinger.
Coach Zilm's daughter,

Aspen takes down Buena Vista:

FORT COLLINS, Colorado - They have silenced the skeptics. They have passed every test.
Now, No. 2 gets a shot at No. 1.
"To me, it's like we've been climbing Everest forever. We can now see the top," Aspen head boys basketball coach Steve Ketchum said after his team's 44-35 win over Buena Vista on Friday night in the 3A state semifinals. "It's within our reach."
One more to go.
While their offensive woes persisted, the Skiers leaned on their stout defense to pull out another victory at Colorado State University. Aspen's vaunted 1-3-1 defense held star guard Josh Morgan in check and No. 6 Buena Vista to 17 percent shooting in the first half of the first of two 3A semifinal games at Moby Arena. The Skiers, buoyed by two late 3-pointers from Andrew Papenfus and some strong contributions from their post players, withstood a fourth-quarter Demons surge and hung on for the nine-point win, clinching the school's first berth

Dream season comes to an end for Coal Ridge:

FORT COLLINS, Colorado - Coal Ridge's dream season came to an end on Friday.
A mid-game rally lifted Brush to a 40-24 win over the underdog Titans - seeded 27th in the 32-team 3A girls basketball state playoffs - in Friday's state tournament consolation game.
Coal Ridge, which lost to Olathe in Thursday's state quarterfinals at Colorado State University's Moby Arena, just couldn't generate much offense against the No. 7 Beetdiggers.
A baseline jumper by Ashlie Bowles and 3-pointer by Chasity Gonzales were the Titans' only baskets in the first quarter as Brush took a 7-5 lead into the second quarter.
Coal Ridge went ahead 13-11, with about 2 minutes, 30 second left until halftime. But Brush responded in a big way, capitalizing on foul shots and piecing together an 8-0 run to end the half.
The Beetdiggers followed with seven more unanswered points in the third quarter to push their lead to 26-13. They held the Titans without a th

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Humanity is a culture of scared, insecure beings
So I'm reading the back and forth about the medicinal benefits, and the legalities of marijuana in the paper the last couple of months. Are you freakin' kidding me! We are the most intelligent beings on this planet? No. Humanity, as a whole, is a culture of scared and insecure beings. We have no idea who created us, or what our purpose on this planet is.
We use drugs, alcohol, food, money, material things, organized religion, and on and on to get a reprieve from that which we cannot explain. We are incapable of resolving conflict without war. We can create weapons capable of destroying our planet, yet we are incapable solving problems like world hunger, unbelievable!
The things that humanity does to itself are unconscionable. We go about our business blind to the real reality. We have but a millisecond of cosmic time on this planet. Will we ever get it?
So stop trying to convince people that being stoned relieves head aches or not.

The Aspen Daily News