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Carbondale’s Center for Human Flourishing recently screened A Will For the Woods. The documentary explores end-of-life issues, 'green burial', and destigmatizing death. Carbondale marketing and voiceover professional Kate Collins is a student in former KDNK News Director Lucas Turner's “Sound Design” class at Colorado Mountain College. Collins interviewed a local “death doula,” and brings us this report – which was also her final project for Turner’s CMC course.

Senate President Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, says the new law will put the state’s voting equipment under permanent video surveillance and lock it behind doors that can only be opened with keycards.

Adam Frisch is one of three Democrats on the June primary ballot for the Third Congressional District hoping to challenge Republican Lauren Boebert in the November election. Over the weekend he kicked off his Beat Boebert BBQ Tour with stops at nearly a dozen restaurants from Pueblo to Grand Junction. Unfortunately, tensions arose at a variety of stops, with a law enforcement response necessary in Trinidad. Visits to Pueblo, Montrose, and Grand Junction were moved after restaurants allegedly received threats from Boebert supporters. Sarah Shook is campaign manager for candidate Adam Frisch. She spoke to Rocky Mountain Community Radio's Gavin Dahl.

With the Roaring Fork Valley and greater Mountain West in a full-blown housing crisis and deepening worker shortage, NIMBYism and anemic voter turnout combined to claw back annexation for the proposed 480 Donegan project in West Glenwood. KDNK's Morgan Neely has more.

Tuesday is the final chance for voters to have their say in what could be a seismic election in Glenwood Springs. On the ballot? Whether or not to overturn City Council’s decision to annex 480 Donegan in West Glenwood.

KDNK's Morgan Neely continues his conversation with Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux pro-skier, Connor Ryan.

Ryan Ernstes won 5Point Film’s first ever pitch event during the flagship festival’s return to Carbondale over the weekend. KDNK’s Morgan Neely spoke with her after Sunday’s Changemaker’s Film Program.

Connor Ryan is a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux – the same tribe that produced resistance leader Sitting Bull, who defeated Custer’s cavalry at Little Big Horn in 1876. Ryan is also a truly ripping skier. He co-directed and starred in Spirit of the Peaks, which won Best Cinematography at the 5Point Adventure Film Fest over the weekend. In the film he speaks his mind in blunt, candid terms – about his ancestors, ecology, and a colonial mentality he views as inherent in the white-dominated world of adventure sports. KDNK’s Morgan Neely sat outside the Carbondale Rec Center with Ryan on Sunday to find out how he thought his message had been received by the festival audience.

Now based in Seattle, former Carbondale resident Ellie Barber describes her Tiny Desk Contest entry as a "contemplation on playfulness." Barber, Natalie Spears, and Mark Zoller made up Pearl & Wood, a beloved longtime Roaring Fork Valley trio.

The Five Point Adventure Film Festival returned to Carbondale Thursday – the first time it’s been held in person in two years. The kickoff event at Carbondale’s Rec Center featured a Van Life Rally, contests, and live bluegrass from Elk Range. KDNK’s Special Correspondent, Down Valley Troy, was there to learn more.