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The Colorado Association of Realtors Foundation has started a fund to help homeowners address damages from wildfires burning across the state, according to a news release. The foundation will provide grants up to $1,500 per household to help Coloradans who “have lost their hom...
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For buyers beginning their search in Aspen, one of the first questions is often, “What does my budget actually buy?” While...
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Film ‘Pretty Dirty’ about honoree Marilyn Minter at Isis today
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Blues, classical, eclectic rock and jazz hit the upper valley Thursday through Saturday
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AVSC alum Sandblom the top-ranked American snowboarder
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Marilyn Minter is Anderson Ranch’s 2026 International Artist Honoree. A movie about her work, “Pretty Dirty: The Life and Work of Marilyn Minter,” screens at 6 p.m. today at Aspen Film’s Isis Theater....
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Over 130 pieces of art are on display at Anderson Ranch Arts Center as part of Ranch Week, the ranch’s annual celebration of art, community and creativity....
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A Marilyn Minter painting, “After Guston, #25 (shoe),” is part of a body of work that looks at femininity and fashion and how it is portrayed in culture....
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Brothers Luther Dickinson, left, and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars play on Fanny Hill in Snowmass Village on Thursday evening as part of the Snowmass Free Summer Concert Series....
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Jes Grew (with the Broccoli Brothers on horns) entertains the crowd at Belly Up Aspen on Thursday evening. Pictured from left at the front of the stage: Randolph Turner, Cameron Williams and Rob “Monkey” Dasaro....
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Kim Baillargeon — Dear Pitkin County commissioners, I am writing as a concerned county citizen regarding the members-only...
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Kate Spencer — Dear Pitkin County commissioners, I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed development...
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Uncomfortable truth for us locals: Aspen One is at least partly right about the problematic future of our ski-based economy...
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As we are marking our nation’s 250th anniversary, it’s worth celebrating what we the people have in common. What we literally have...
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30 years ago July 12, 1996 Following news of the Surface Transportation Board’s denial of a request from the Union and Southern Pacific Railroad to abandon the Tennessee Pass line, officials from East West Partners called off plans to redevelop the 62-acre railroad property...
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Cancer the crab. Yup, that’s me. I’m most content inside my hard shell. My tender, delectable meat needs that armored protection. I once felt too delicate to be around people, like my skin was raw and humanity would easily devour me. My sun, Venus and Mars are all in Cancer. ...
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Editor’s Note: After originally declining to comment by the time of publication, Commissioner Francie Jacober has responded to questions with regard to the lifting of the M-44 ban on BLM lands. This article has been updated to reflect her comments. Back in 1998, the federal ag...
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For one night only, DanceAspen’s gala at Hotel Jerome transports attendees into the extravagant, gold-and-glamour shine of Studio 54, circa the 1970s. “Dance is meant to bring people together, and few places embodied that more than Studio 54,” said Laurel Winton, DanceAspen’...
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Climbers on Independence Pass could benefit from the new Protect America’s Rock Climbing act, which would allow for easier maintenance and installation of fixed anchors, or bolts, on rock walls. The PARC act is aiming to address a decades-long dispute over the use of fixed an...
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Mitigating health risks of low air quality as wildfire risks increase
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The Willow Fire near Telluride ignited on June 28. As of Saturday, it had reached 5,342 acres and was at 22% containment.
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Smoke filled valleys across Colorado in late June, leading to low air quality and visibility. While the smoke has cleared out, ongoing concerns about health — and when/if the smoke will return — linger....
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Mark Gladwin is a heart, vascular and lung physician-scientist and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He spoke at Aspen Center for Environmental Studies on July 2 on climate medicine — an emerging field of health related…...
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Summer goes on as planned, including at an Aspen Music Festival student performance June 27 in Aspen under several weeks of smoky skies.
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Hussam Mahmoud, an international authority on wildfire resilience and community-scale risk reduction and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy and Climate, works on fire and smoke modeling in the Roaring Fork Valley....
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A smoky sunset seen from Hunter Creek in Aspen on June 29. Multiple large fires were burning in Colorado to the southwest, west and east of Aspen.
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Natalie Tsevdos is the environmental health administrator for the city of Aspen.
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An aerial image of Aspen and the smoky haze that shrouded the valley for much of the prior two weeks, taken July 7.
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Smoke is visible on July 10 looking toward Ridgway and Ouray coming down Dallas Divide. The Gold Mountain and Elk fires are burning in the area.
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The Prineville Hotshots take a break on July 8 as the Ferris Fire, located in southwestern Colorado, makes another push up the canyon.
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All this past winter, my hiking boots were striking dry trails or crunchy grasses when we should have been donning skate skis...
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Last night I had the nightmare again. Not the first recurring nightmare I have had in my life. The second...
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Pete Anzalone — Two more bikes were brazenly stolen in Willits last night, on cars parked immediately outside El Korita...
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Polly Ross — Thank you, Allen Jones, for your excellent letter in response to Barry Vaughan’s letter...
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Andrew Teller — The recent decision to bring whole and 2% milk back to school lunches is a step backward for school nutrition...
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Record low precipitation, high temperatures and an ongoing drought are all lining up on the Western Slope this summer, but what does that mean specifically for Independence Pass? The Sawatch Range’s typically snow-covered, 13,000-foot peaks are dry and brown, with even the col...
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Prior to Independence Day, Eagle County law enforcement made a call to action for Eagle County residents and tourists alike to follow Stage 2 fire restrictions over the course of the busy holiday. This included personal firework usage, which concerned some officials who were ...
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Gaard Moses has released his book, “Aspen, Signs of History — Stories and Scalawags.” Those who know him have been anxiously awaiting its publication and would say, “well worth the wait.” You might not know whom he is, but you no doubt have noticed his contribution to Aspen’s...
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Just northwest of Rifle, the Roan Plateau rises 3,000 feet above the Colorado River Valley, a towering wall of sandstone cliffs. Once airborne, the mesa unfolds below as a patchwork of waterfalls and streams winding through aspen groves, juniper woodlands, Douglas fir and Gamb...
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On behalf of the Red Brick Center for the Arts and the city of Aspen, I wish to share our collective thanks for the partnership of the Carbondale-based Project Shop on the Mall Fest 50 Art Parade. Among two dozen amazing collaborators, The Project Shop, led by artist Reina Ka...
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The annual Regeneration Ball will return at 5 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Hotel Jerome to celebrate local sustainable farms, support the Farm Collaborative and present food from award-winning chefs. The proceeds from this year’s gala will go toward supporting the new Regenerative Agri...
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Summit54 is celebrating its 15th anniversary of providing the free Summer Advantage academic and life-enrichment program to children throughout the Roaring Fork School District — including Basalt, El Jebel, Carbondale, Redstone, Glenwood Springs and New Castle. Together, the p...
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Water managers are taking the first steps toward supplying clean water to their communities after the wildfire, but it will be a long road. Most other active fires in Colorado have missed critical water systems....
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Pro pickleball player Collin Johns, left, and Pickle for a Purpose organizer Howard Talenfeld pose at Aspen Meadows in 2024. Johns was the headliner for the inaugural fundraising event last year. This year’s event, on July 21, will feature Andrei…...
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A PanTerra Energy crew attaches pipes for drilling at the Aspen School District campus on Wednesday. The crew is performing tests for the district’s geothermal energy network project....
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A view of the proposed leasing sites on the Roan Plateau from an EcoFlight airplane this week.
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East Fork Falls on the East Fork Parachute Creek, home to genetically pure Colorado River cutthroat trout, runs through BLM land on the Roan Plateau, near proposed oil and gas leases. Conservation, wildlife and hunting groups are urging the BLM…...
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There is heavy natural gas production at the base of the Roan Plateau. The BLM has proposed new leases on public lands at the top plateau in a December sale....
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Ksenija Ilic — Regarding the Woody Creek racetrack expansion proposal: It’s reassuring to know that after driving race cars...
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Martha Ferguson — I can understand Woody Creek’s reaction to the recent application to expand the auto racetrack there...
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Firefighters main concern is stopping flames from marching west. The Aspen Acres and Ferris fires now rank among the state’s 10th largest on record.
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Colorado’s mountains are in for a hot, dry weekend as a heat dome sets up over the West, according to forecasters. National Weather Service forecaster Kate Abbott said the ridge of high pressure that is building will push out any lingering moisture away from the Western Slope ...
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Sportsmen, conservation groups cry foul as drilling leases are proposed again on the Roan Plateau
