BY DWIGHT SHELLMAN Dwight Shellman has been a Woody Creek attorney for more than 40 years. In the 1970s and ’80s he served as a Pitkin County commissioner and sat on the county planning & zoning commission and the RFTA board. From the early 1990s until his recent retirement as president of the Cad-do Lake […]
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GOING TO SLEEP
BY RALPH STEADMAN MARCH 23, 1983 Plants don’t travel. Well, that’s for sure. They don’t join clubs and they don’t get into traffic jams. They drink, they sway in the wind, and they sing. “Be my friend,” they say, “don’t ask me to be a business associate or I will wilt.” Plants do not threaten, […]
THE WOODY CREEK CAUCUS
AUGUST’S MEETING IS ON THURSDAY THE 25TH AT 6:00 AT THE WOODY CREEK STORE (COME HUNGRY) The caucus is in the hard-fought position of being the best place for neighbors to bring their concerns, the place where other neighbors agree or disagree to take up an issue. The caucus strives for consensus, but works by […]
TEX’S POETRY PAGE
THE FOLLOWING IS DEDICATED TO BILL SMITH. RACHEL, WOODY CREEK LOVES YOU AND SUPPORTS YOU ALL THE WAY. In honor of Hunter Thompson’s birthday, here is the final stanza of Kubla Khan: A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing […]
GIN JELL-O RECIPE BY ANITA THOMPSON
He loved fruit and also loved gin.