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Colorado Parks and Wildlife has $11 million to help private landowners protect wildlife habitat or provide public access for recreation. The state agency announced on Tuesday, June 16, that it is now accepting applications for the 2026 funding cycle of its Colorado Wildlife H...
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Plus: The Telluride Bluegrass Festival, FIBArk in Salida and an open mic in Basalt where there are no parents allowed
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Snowmass officials talk about meeting new needs while preserving the past
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GM wants weekend to be ‘celebration of the town of Aspen’
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Initial supporters are often family, friends
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Council supported redirecting Burlingame early childhood center funds toward operational subsidies
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Groundbreakers old and young celebrate the construction getting underway for the expanded Little Red Schoolhouse program. The new facility will be located behind Snowmass Village’s iconic red building....
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This architectural rendering shows the new preschool facility currently under construction located behind Snowmass Village’s iconic Little Red Schoolhouse. Construction is anticipated to take about 14 months....
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Snowmass Councilmember Susan Marolt and Snowmass Mayor Alyssa Shenk look at a rendering of the expanded Little Red Schoolhouse project.
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Guests gather in the Hotel Jerome’s courtyard during the 2025 Epicurean Passport opening ceremony.
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Rob Ittner, center, has outraised District 1 opponents John Doyle, left, and Torre, right, in campaign finance reports in the Pitkin Board of County Commissioners primary race. District 2 candidates Emily Kolbe and Ted Mahon both automatically advance through the…...
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An Xcel Energy outage is affecting Glenwood Springs and New Castle Wednesday evening. As of 7:41 p.m. Wednesday, 3,440 of 40,057 customers tracked in the area are without power, according to poweroutage.us. Xcel Energy crews are working to safely restore service, with estim...
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Editor’s note: A version of this story appears in The Aspen Times annual Food & Wine magazine. Pick up a copy now for more on the festival. In our ever-evolving world, some things deserve recognition for their longevity and stability. This year marks the 43rd edition of th...
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The Pitkin County Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday found the Snowmass Falls Ranch Trailhead Parking Area Location and Extent Review in conformance with the 2018 Upper Snowmass Creek Master Plan and the 2003 Overview of Pitkin County Comprehensive Plan. This decision foll...
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Of course Erik Krum still remembers winning the eighth-grade title at the Vail Lacrosse Tournament back in 2003. But his favorite memories with Team Colorado that year came off the field. “I mainly remember hanging out with my teammates,” he said. “Going down to the river to ...
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Snowmass Town Council received an updated proposal Monday of the first phase of improvements for the Mall Transit Center project, with two primary options. The phased approach was developed beginning in 2025, with phase one including improvements to the Roaring Fork Transporta...
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Clean Energy Economy for the Region is bringing “BikeThere!” — a day-long event celebrating biking — to communities from Aspen to Parachute for Colorado’s Bike to Work Day on June 24. “BikeThere!” provides an opportunity to connect with local communities, exercise and allevia...
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Community members are invited to meet Aspen Mayor Rachael Richards at the Aspen Saturday Market on June 27. Richards and other city staff, including representatives from the city’s Kids First Program, will be at the city of Aspen booth on Saturday afternoon. The mayor and staf...
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Clean Energy Economy for the Region is bringing “BikeThere!” — a day-long event celebrating biking — to communities from Aspen to Parachute for Colorado’s Bike to Work Day on June 24. “BikeThere!” provides an opportunity to connect with local communities, exercise and allevia...
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The Bureau of Land Management in Colorado held one of its largest oil and gas lease sales on Tuesday, June 16, offering sales of 170 parcels in Arapahoe, Garfield, Jackson, Mesa, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt and Weld counties. The sale generated over $35.26 million from 147 parce...
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Aspen Women’s Golf Association from June 10LOW GROSS1st: Peggy Sontag 872nd: Camille Cook 883rd: Karin Hathaway 934th: Mary Cunningham 94LOW NET1st: Clarity Fornell 732nd: Amanda Flynn 743rd: Irene Greiser 744th: Rose Abello 75 Aspen Men’s Golf Association from June 11LOW GROS...
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In a time of ecological crisis and personal uncertainty, I had a beautiful conversation with my Dharma teacher Christopher Titmuss. We explore healing, grief and the wisdom of trees. Below are a few excerpts from our conversation, edited and adapted from a video meeting in May 20...
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Ballots are out, please vote for Jason Boston for Eagle County Sheriff. His vast experience in law enforcement and the district attorney’s office sets him apart from other candidates. Jason Boston is the change Eagle County citizens deserve and are seeking! The current sheriff is...
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With the June 30 primary just over two weeks away, County voters face a genuinely consequential choice — and many of us may sit it out. Please don’t. This election matters. Our community has grown increasingly polarized, retreating into echo chambers that magnify our differenc...
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The new Aspen/Pitkin County Airport terminal design is proposing less passenger holding space, less parking and less employee amenities, but is including space for a potential gondola system from Brush Creek Park and Ride to Aspen. Should the Board of County Commissioners appr...
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If you’ve been looking at the U.S. markets lately and feeling a little twitchy, you’re not alone. Plenty of investors — quietly, cautiously — are wondering whether it’s time to stop treating the United States as the center of the financial universe. And honestly? It might be. The...
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New York-based art provocateur Ashley Longshore is bringing her signature contemporary art to Aspen for a six-day pop-up, open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. from June 19-24, in partnership with the jeweler Buddha Mama. Timed to coincide with the 2026 Food & Wine Classic, the installation ...
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While the weeklong, juried workshops for Summer Words are closed at this point, there are still plenty of craft talks and panels that are open to the public June 22-25, and a pass for all six of the discussions is just $40. As one of the top literary gatherings in the nation, ...
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The Pitkin County Library introduced a strategic plan emphasizing accessibility and library visibility at the Pitkin County work session on Tuesday. To develop the plan, the library staff worked with Library Strategies, a library consulting nonprofit based out of St. Paul, Min...
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Slaughter Fest, the annual raft and kayak race that features the Roaring Fork River’s Class IV Slaughterhouse Falls, returned to Aspen on Sunday. With the river running lower than usual due to the low snowpack, the race began at Stein Park and ended at Slaughterhouse Falls. Fr...
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Aspen One CEO Dave Tanner, Aspen Skiing Company CEO Geoff Buchheister and Aspen One Senior Vice President of Sustainability Chris Miller joined Snowmass Town Council Monday in an effort to increase transparency and strengthen community partnership, in addition to receiving feedba...
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For 20 years, Belly Up Aspen has done something that still feels improbable on paper: book major talent into a 450-capacity room in a seasonal mountain town. David Goldberg grew up in Aspen and runs Belly Up alongside his brother Danny and father Michael, and he speaks about t...
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A grand jury has unsealed an indictment accusing seven individuals of running what the Colorado Bureau of Investigation described in a news release as a “sophisticated” drug trafficking organization. The group is accused of manufacturing and distributing drug-infused candies a...
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Colorado has a census problem, and it’s costing the state millions of dollars in federal funding and adequate political representation. The state is partnering with nonprofits to find a solution before the 2030 census. In May, the Colorado State Demography Office released its ...
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Despite May bringing near normal precipitation and temperatures to the state, June has gotten off to a hot and dry start, spiraling Colorado into drought conditions. Understanding more about Colorado’s hydrology is critical to understanding how the drought developed — and got...
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Within Pitkin County, there are 27,490 acres of Bureau of Land Management land, according to the BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office. These are acres used for recreation and ranching purposes. Quietly, back on April 14-15, 2026, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed...
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Within Pitkin County, there are 27,490 acres of Bureau of Land Management land, according to the BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office. These are acres used for recreation and ranching purposes. Quietly, back on April 14-15, 2026, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed...
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Within Pitkin County, there are 27,490 acres of Bureau of Land Management land, according to the BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office. These are acres used for recreation and ranching purposes. Quietly, back on April 14-15, 2026, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed...
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Hot, windy, dry summer weather coming off a brutally low-snow winter has the Vail Fire Department once again urging residents to sign up for Eagle County Alerts, work on a personal evacuation plan (the six Ps) and get fuels five feet away from homes with Fire Free Five. “Evacu...
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Update 8:15 p.m. Monday: U.S. Highway 6 has reopened in both directions between Rifle and Silt after a small grass fire near Powerline Road prompted a closure and power outages affecting thousands of Garfield County customers Monday afternoon. As of 8:13 p.m., the area had bee...
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Honey Tree Preschool is planting new roots in Glenwood Springs. After six years of operating in El Jebel, co-owners Kelly Beal and Dustin Robertson are preparing to open a second location in the Meadows complex, bringing nearly 80 new childcare spots to Glenwood Springs as soo...
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Colorado’s summit-bagging season is getting underway as snow melts from the highest peaks weeks earlier than usual, following the state’s worst snowpack on record this past winter. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative Executive Director Lloyd Athearn said while the nonprofit’s trai...
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In the race to represent Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, Democratic candidates are relying almost entirely on small donors and self-funding, while the Republican incumbent has raised a significant chunk from political committees and GOP warchests. Voting is underway fo...
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The Roaring Fork School District Board of Education closed out the 2025-26 school year Wednesday night by swearing in a new member, electing a new board president, approving the 2026-27 budget and advancing a proposed staff housing project in El Jebel. Delk sworn in, elected ...
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The wreck of a small aircraft that has been sitting in the trees above Independence Ghost Town and slowly deteriorating in the harsh subalpine environment for the past 58 years is still waiting to be cleaned up. Independence Pass Foundation’s Executive Director Karin Teague su...
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Xcel Energy has started rebuilding a transmission line between Rifle, Silt and New Castle. Crews are improving access roads, installing foundations and digging pits for new transmission poles along the line between Rifle and New Castle. That work is expected to continue for th...
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Colorado River Fire Rescue Station 61 in Silt broke ground on Wednesday, June 10 with a shovel ceremony, attended by Colorado River Fire Rescue board members and firefighters. It was a windy day, but the gold shovels were gleaming and the fire personnel were happy to see what wou...
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The City of Rifle implemented Stage 1 fire restrictions Wednesday, aligning with restrictions already enacted across Garfield County. The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, the Bureau of Land Management, and the county’s seven fire districts announced restrictions on June 9 fol...
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The Garfield Re-2 School District Board of Education approved its insurance policy renewals Wednesday after reviewing increased premiums, higher deductibles and several changes in coverage. Representatives from Glenwood Insurance had been scheduled to present at the previous m...
