Betsy Welch
FreelancerBetsy is a Carbondale-based freelance journalist covering local and regional news for the Sopris Sun and the Colorado Sun. After five years reporting on cycling and outdoor culture for Outside Inc., she now covers a range of community, outdoors, and human-interest stories and is excited to be stepping into radio storytelling.
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We celebrated Mother’s Day over the weekend, giving us all a chance to honor those lifegiving women. Mother’s Day stories often focus on caregiving. But in Eagle County, one group of women is finding community — and a little freedom — on mountain bikes. KDNK’s Betsy Welch brings the story. -
A meeting in Eagle earlier this month drew e-bike enthusiasts and others who don’t want them on trails where they are now prohibited. Around 50 officials and members of the public and trail groups turned up at the first of two informational meetings hosted by the Bureau of Land Management. Betsy Welch was there and brings this report to KDNK. -
Around the world on Saturday, people gathered on bikes to ride in solidarity with each other and honor the life of Alex Pretti. Pretti, the ICU nurse who was killed by federal ICE agents on January 24, was a cyclist himself.
