El Jebel News

A relatively calm fall for the Basalt Fire Department evaporated in a hurry Wednesday when rescue workers and firefighters were called to three major incidents and a minor one within three hours.

EL JEBEL, Colorado - Eagle County zoning regulations may keep a medical marijuana dispensary from cropping up in El Jebel.

The Aspen Skiing Co. remains committed to building worker housing in the midvalley even though demand - or at least the ability for people to buy something - has temporarily eased.

There wasn't much on this year's Eagle County ballot, but Star Doll still cast a ballot.

A lot of well-intentioned people support the effort to plan and eventually build a new indoor recreation center in El Jebel, but the Crown Mountain Park and Recreation District Referendum 4A is a bad idea.

Government dollars intended for use in planning expanded facilities at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel can't go toward campaign spending, according to the Eagle County clerk.

Aspen's bowliing alley, Aspen Lanes, was located on the corner of Hunter and Cooper, where Boogie's now sits.

As the sun started to warm the banks of the Roaring Fork River on Saturday morning, Oct.

Pitkin County Community Health Services has been forced to cancel three upcoming flu shot clinics because it doesn't have enough of the vaccine.

County offices, including the Avon and El Jebel satellite offices, the county landfill and household hazardous waste facility, will be closed on Monday in observance of Columbus Day.

Just try to imagine the Roaring Fork Valley working without RFTA. Think about that 60-mile string of towns and crossings from Rifle to Aspen with no public transportation.

Basalt police said Friday they arrested the man they believe burglarized a Willits home Sept.

Eagle County's Department of Public Health will offer vaccination clinics for seasonal flu at its Avon, Eagle and El Jebel locations throughout the month of October.

Ralph Gunning of Castle Creek Construction and Bob Jackson of Mountain Terrascape bulldoze the old Orchard Inn in El Jebel.

The Roaring Fork Transportation Agency's fare hike this fall has made private vehicles more competitive with the bus system at a time when the organization is spending millions of dollars on an expansion.

Judi Appell of El Jebel is known to many as The Salsa Queen. She has been selling her jars of homemade salsa at the Potato Day celebration in Carbondale for the past 17 years.

Election Day 2010 is Nov. 3 and Eagle County will conduct a mail ballot election this year.

I had been planning to write about the superintendent of the Roaring Fork School District banning the president's speech from her district's classrooms.

Colorado's two premier resort counties are at odds over a proposed 320-home subdivision, with one official accusing the other county of creating a "bag of excrement." Eagle County has given preliminary approval to the development in El Jebel , just north of the Pitkin County line.

In face-to-face meeting, Owsley, Hatfield criticize Eagle County's decision to grant approval to large midvalley development EL JEBEL - Two Pitkin County commissioners scolded their counterparts in Eagle County Monday for granting the first round of approvals recently for a big development in El Jebel.