Basalt News

The stable of Brit Queer detractors keeps getting bigger. Queer, Aspen's boot man, found himself again the object of a motorist's chagrin, this time on the Fourth of July in the Clark's Market parking lot.

The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute in Basalt is offering a workshop Saturday, July 11, on solar greenhouse design and management.

Higher bus fares might be another way that the recession hits Roaring Fork Valley residents in the pocketbook this year.

BASALT, Colorado - Basalt officials anticipated stuff might hit the fan when they approved tough new growth controls earlier this year, but not quite in the way it has unfolded.

Kathy Rohlwing displays some of the colorful dinnerware sold at her new store in Willits Town Center.

CARBONDALE, Colorado - Armed with growing evidence that a busy kid is less likely to get into trouble, an after-school program for middle-school-aged students that began in Carbondale this year is shopping around for local government support to expand its efforts to Glenwood Springs and Basalt.

Rescuers were called to the Hays Park area, outside of Carbondale, Friday evening to aid a Snowmass man who had been bucked off his horse.

It's time to celebrate! Climb aboard your bike and pedal your way to the Rio Grande Trail Celebration with us.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The Garfield County Jail has a new commander. Starting Monday, July 6, former Garfield County Sheriff's Patrol Sergeant Stephen Hopple will move into his new position as the top boss at the jail.

ASPEN, Colorado - Neither a 150-year prison term nor a courtroom apology from Bernard Madoff satisfied some of his local investors Monday, when the disgraced money manager was sentenced in a Manhattan court by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin.

For good reason, Dan Mills remembers precisely the day he moved from northern Illinois to Tennessee.

One of the partners in The Club at Cordillera has purchased the entire club, and has big plans for the future.

ASPEN, Colorado - At a time when local governments are downsizing, freezing wages and leaving positions unfilled, the Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Program has proposed expanding its staff next year.

While popular perception has everyone in Aspen eating fancy food and drinking classy wine, the reality is lots of people are struggling to get enough to eat.

Roy G. Brubacher, the western Garfield County representative on the Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees, announced this week that he will not seek a second term on the board this November.

The Strawberry Shortcut, a staple of Strawberry Days weekend for more than 30 years, will return to the streets of Glenwood Springs on Sunday, June 21.

Youthentity hosts a Cuban-cuisine-themed fundraiser, including a pig roast, beer and whiskey tasting, music and silent auction, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at the Aspen Glen Club, 545 Bald Eagle Way, Carbondale.

The Aspen Democrat-Times reported on various goings-on, and urged the pursuit of gold mining, during the second week of June, a century ago: Taylor Park Road Yesterday $200 was raised among the merchants for the opening of the road over Taylor Pass.

A man was arrested shortly after the vehicle he was driving was spotted by a police officer without its headlights on at North Mill and Puppy Smith streets.

A team effort produced the signs for the new Basalt Sunday Market. Valley Lumber donated materials, Esse Design created the logo and artists at the Wyly Community Arts Center did the painting.