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Weather conditions will likely give firefighters working to contain the massive Aspen Acres fire an edge again Sunday. “Yesterday was our first day without red flag warnings and we have no red flag warnings for today,” Operations Section Chief Brad Washa, of Alaska Complex Inc...
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Libertine is returning to Aspen with an exclusive residency at The Little Nell from July 29 through Aug. 4, coinciding with Aspen Art Week and offering an intimate and elevated shopping experience for visitors and locals alike. Libertine will be located inside the property’s b...
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Do not make the same costly mistake I did! If you park in the Clark’s Market parking lot in Aspen longer than 90 minutes, your car will be booted by Roaring Fork’s Security, and it will cost you $160 to get the boot removed! Apparently, there are two signs on opposite cor...
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Eagle County Paramedic Services is expanding the width of paramedic abilities to be ready for any emergency, especially in the outdoors. The paramedics team recently hosted austere emergency care training for 11 of its paramedics to learn to respond to prolonged medical emerge...
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Olympian Alex Ferreira led old-fashioned Fourth of July parade across town
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Electeds put the legacy of the Declaration of the Independence in their own words
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Parade floats travel down Galena Street during Saturday’s Fourth of July parade in Aspen, greeting what was estimated to be tens of thousands of people....
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A vintage Aspen Fire Protection District truck cruises down Main Street in Aspen’s Fourth of July parade on Saturday.
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The Blazing Adventures float grills hot dogs before passing them out to the crowd during the parade.
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Olympic freeski halfpipe gold medalist Alex Ferreira, center, served as the grand marshal in the Fourth of July parade in Aspen on Saturday.
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Vertical dance company Bandaloop performs dangling from the Wheeler Opera House on Saturday.
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Murphy McBride tosses a bag at balloons to win a prize at the carnival in Wagner Park on Friday afternoon.
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The Record Company performs a free community concert in Wagner Park on Friday night, part of Aspen’s Fourth of July celebration. The concert was produced by Belly Up....
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Parade-goers watch an Air Force Reserve C-130 Hercules head off to its next destination after performing a flyover ahead of the Fourth of July parade in Aspen on Saturday. The plane was also scheduled to pass over Vail, Granby, Crested…...
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“Oftentimes, mental health issues and substance use disorders go hand in hand. It’s a fact that more adults in Eagle County are heavy drinkers than their peers in Colorado and the nation, and the percent of heavy drinkers is increasing, according to the 2019 Vail Health Community...
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The 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding is the perfect occasion to remember our responsibility not just to each other...
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Susan McKeller — Do not make the same costly mistake I did! If you park in the Aspen Clark’s Market parking lot for longer than 90 minutes...
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Barry Vaughan — Susan Taylor’s piece raises interesting issues and deserves a response. As to the misalignment of Aspen and Pitkin County’s desire...
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Aspen locals and visitors alike came together on Saturday to celebrate America’s 250th birthday with the annual Old Fashioned Fourth of July parade through the downtown core. Lasting about 90 minutes, it included dozens of local organizations and no shortage of entertainment as t...
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On Dec. 27, 2024, a skiing accident left New Mexico-resident Ulrich John paralyzed. He had been a professional skier and was simply giving his son a ski lesson on a green run when he suddenly lost his balance. Last March, he participated in Bridging Bionics’ newest initiative, th...
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MOMIX, a company of dancer-illusionists, presents Botanica at Aspen District Theater. The exceptionally innovative company explores the human body “to investigate non-human worlds,” artistic director Moses Pendleton said. Its latest performance, Botanica, emerges from the...
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Should rivers have rights? This was the question posed by Chuck Sams, the director of Indigenous Programs at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice and the former director of the U.S. National Park Service, and Michael Livermore, a professor of law at the University of Virg...
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Aspen Public Radio is partnering with the Aspen Music Festival and School for the fourth year to broadcast the 4 p.m. Sunday Aspen Festival Orchestra concerts live each week throughout the greater Roaring Fork Valley. Broadcasts begin Sunday, July 5. “This iconic Festival i...
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The Aspen Chamber Resort Association has released the results of its most recent visitor profile study, which was conducted March of this year. The survey collected data and insights on 2025 visitor demographics, travel behaviors, spending patterns and satisfaction levels, ac...
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Damian Woetzel, artistic director of Vail Dance Festival, spoke on a panel at Aspen Ideas Festival on June 29, along with Charles Yang and Caroline Shaw, about music — and what it might sound like in 250 years, in alignment with Aspen Ideas’ theme: Declarations of Independence: P...
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Colorado’s largest active wildfire consumed more than 8,000 acres overnight as hundreds more firefighters arrived in Pueblo and Custer counties to try to slow the fire’s spread. The Aspen Acres fire roared across another 13 square miles late Friday night and early Saturday mor...
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I wake up each day with anticipation. Will the sky be brilliant, sparkling Colorado blue? The sky I remember stirring awe within me when I first came to visit Fort Lewis College in Colorado with my dad in 1993. We marveled at its consistent beauty. It was striking. The blue, blue...
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This week, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. The contrast in Aspen’s Fourth of July celebrations between 1917 and 1918 surrounding WWI are worth pondering when thinking about celebrating patriotism. WWI had been ongoing for over two and a half years...
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Some worry about ‘inconveniences’ of other modes of arrival,’ ACRA survey says
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Pitkin County OST Board adopts 2026 version of management plan
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Attorneys debate intent, benefit and risk of bringing in receiver
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Visitors mill about Wagner Park near the Grand Tasting tents during the 2026 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.
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A stretch of thin snow on the Owl Creek Trail in Snowmass Village was still enough to cross-country ski on Jan. 17, 2025, when some routes had plenty of coverage and others were nearly melted out. The Aspen/Snowmass Nordic Council…...
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A section of the Owl Creek Trail in Snowmass Village, photographed on Feb. 28, illustrates how much slope aspect and sun exposure can affect snow coverage. A new management plan for the Aspen/Snowmass Nordic trails includes ideas for additional shady…...
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Kaitlyn and Brock Hamlin enjoy a ride on the merry-go-round at the Fourth of July carnival in Rio Grande Park on Friday afternoon. The carnival continues today from noon to 8 p.m....
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Susan Sullivan — (Re: “Raab: Curating a crisis of identity,” July 1, Aspen Daily News and “Marolt: If the airport is our main...
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JM Jesse — The White House continually proclaims that Donald Trump is the “most transparent president in history.” That is true...
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Craig Chisesi — President Trump has intimated that “vandals” are responsible for the recent cesspool problems with the Lincoln...
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“I say let’s get the heck out of here,” I told Ryan’s parents as a mountain of black smoke billowed over downtown Basalt, dark...
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The United States’ birthday looks a little different this year. There are many reasons. What we call a 250-year-old nation...
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Wanting to bring something extra to the table in honor of the country’s 250th birthday, the city of Aspen brought in a carnival to Rio Grande Park on Friday to help kickstart the Fourth of July weekend. The free, community event will continue on Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. Gu...
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Most of us have done it — stuck in a holding pattern over Aspen in the middle of winter. You’ve bounced through rough skies, getting close enough to start thinking about the first thing you’re going to do when the wheels finally touch the runway. Then, on the second pass, you ...
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The fire southwest of Pueblo is now the 8th largest fire by acreage in Colorado history. Snyder fire on Western Slope is 95% contained, as other fires see modest growth....
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As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary in tandem with Colorado celebrating its 150th anniversary, Aspen is celebrating its own patriotic anniversary this July 4 when, as legend has it, gold was struck at what is now the Ghost Town of Independence. And commemorating the e...
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The Aspen Police Department now has a father-son duo following the recent swearing in of three new officers at an Aspen City Council meeting at the end of May. The new inductees included Officers Berta Rivera, Tatum Hunsader and Trey Fabrocini. With his swearing in, Trey has t...
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The real test of travel gear is whether you’re still happy you packed it after the fifth hotel, third airport sprint and a record-breaking Marrakesh heat wave. The cute dress that seemed necessary at home becomes dead weight by day three, the “just in case” item never leaves the ...
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The “HAE Colorado Summer of Art Tour” will kick off a state-wide celebration of hand-made creations in Paepcke Park during the 23rd Annual Downtown Aspen Art Festival with 100+ national and local artists bringing world-class works spanning all mediums for three days July 17–19. ...
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Action in Africa hosted their third annual Taste of Africa fundraising dinner at Mawa’s Kitchen at the Aspen Airport Business Center on June 13. The evening brought the flavors, culture and spirit of Uganda to Colorado, pairing world-class dining with a powerful global mission. ...
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Looking forward to BANDALOOP on the Wheeler! It was climbed by Mountain Troop soldiers from Camp Hale as a climbing and rescue demonstration in the late 1950s. My late husband, Charles Paterson, Aspen ski school and hotel pioneer of The Boomerang Lodge, served in the mounta...
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If there was ever a time to lean into Americana, it would have to be this Fourth of July, which will not only bring its usual barbecues and fireworks (err … drone show), it is also our fair country’s 250th anniversary — otherwise known as the hard-to-pronounce Semiquincentennial...
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If you are visiting Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley this week, excellent fishing opportunities await. Even if you left all your gear at home or have never fished before, don’t despair — many fly shops up and down the valley are itching to help you out. Most shops offer ren...
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I write this on the eve of the Fourth of July, and the air in the Eagle River Valley tastes like smoke. The Willow Fire is burning outside Leadville. The Gold Mountain Fire has scorched thousands of acres near Ouray. Fires across the Western Slope have pushed Colorado’s burned...
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Aero, a by-the-seat charter, has expanded nonstop New York-to-Aspen service. “Aero reimagines the journey from the moment of arrival, allowing passengers to skip the congestion, long security lines, and airport stress typically associated with summer travel,” a press release r...
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Dinnertime just got more melodious at Marea Aspen, which has taken up residence at The St. Regis hotel this year. This coastal Italian spot comes to the Roaring Fork Valley via New York City and Beverly Hills and boasts a certain “ooh la la” factor which fits right in at the swan...
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The fire southwest of Pueblo “exhibited extreme fire behavior overnight” as thousands of firefighters have descended on the state. Crews are gaining containment on other fires....
