Betsy Welch
Freelance Journalist & NPR HostBetsy 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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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Tuesday's news, including a visit with both sides of a rally and counter-protest with a patch of common ground, and the work of rehabilitating orphaned bear cubs in a year of record drought and conflict. -
For some residents, a garden in Carbondale has been a haven that filled needs beyond the flowers and vegetables they grow there. Now, after 15 years, they are saying goodbye to the Good Seed Garden. KDNK’s Betsy Welch brings us to a gathering at the end of the harvest. -
News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Wednesday's news, including Voter Ed at the Crystal Theatre, 98-year-old former Governor Roy Romer joins a stump tour of Colorado, and the Good Seed Garden's final harvest. -
The Maroon Bells Scenic Area reopened for the season last week with a new rule for visitors arriving by e-bike. Riders now have to pay a five dollar entry fee — the same fee charged to motorcycles. As KDNK’s Betsy Welch reports, the new charge is part of a much larger conversation about how to manage one of Colorado’s busiest public lands destinations. -
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. -
KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.
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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.
