Snowmass Village News

The financial challenges faced by Junk and Liquid Sky owner Scott DeGraff hardly come as a surprise to people familiar with operations of the now-shuttered businesses located in the heart of Base Village.

If Aspen and Snowmass Village have poor tourist numbers this winter, it won't be for lack of commercial airline flights.

Stewart Oksenhorn/Special to the Sun Lynette Kidd Schlepp, Nikki Boxer, Cooper Campisi and Mike Monroney prepare for the opening of Aspen Community Theatre's "The Music Man," an ambitious local production featuring the talents of 44 local actors.

Snowmass Village firefighter/paramedic Brandon Potter prepares to hand out stuffed animals to children in the African village of Kolunga, an island community in Lake Victoria, Kenya, last year.

For a short time, Liquid Sky and Junk were the hot places to go in Snowmass Village.

Ron Weller lost his business from a tornado last year, his son says in a professionally done video submitted to Snowmass Tourism's "You Need a Vacation" competition.

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.

Four-year-old Nate Thomas of Snowmass Village got a fright when a ghoulish goblin flew down from the roof as he was leaving the Snowmass Village Recreation Center with his mother Mary Margaret.

Election Day is closing in, so Roaring Fork Valley residents of Pitkin and Eagle counties must either get their ballots in the mail or, to be safe, deliver them to their county clerk's office.

A mysterious twine strung across a trail as if to injure a speeding bicyclist has the attention of criminal investigators in Pitkin County.

Twine strung tautly enough across the Rio Grande Trail to injure a speeding bicyclist has prompted an investigation by the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office.

Unfortunately, several hot button issues keep interrupting what otherwise has been a very tranquil fall season The Aspen School Board finally came to their senses and agreed to deed restrict their recently acquired Owl Creek property to employee housing or other school district purposes for as long as the district retains ownership of the property.

Basalt laid off two employees this week after watching revenues continue to plummet during its usually strong summer tourist season, Town Manager Bill Kane said Tuesday.

To some residents, "marketing" is a dirty word, for it connotes the advertising and selling of Aspen.

Scott Weisbeck has joined JVA's civil department as a senior project manager. JVA INC.: Announced that Scott Weisbeck has joined the civil department as a senior project manager.

Winter bookings for the Viceroy Hotel are in the "seven figures." Delayed payment of an occupancy assessment for the garage, $174,267, to the Town of Snowmass Village from the developer is expected to be forthcoming this week.

By Ann Larson Villagers driving through the roundabout last Friday afternoon saw a motley crew of volunteers and town employees wearing DayGlo vests climbing around trees in the center island and along the town's entryway.

Los Angeles band WPA, featuring Glen Phillips, Sean Watkins and Luke Bulla, clockwise from front, makes its Aspen debut Friday at the Wheeler Opera House.

Colorado already has a public option in health care - it's just exclusive to sick people who have been rejected by private insurance companies.

Three full-time Pitkin County employees and one part-time worker were laid off Tuesday afternoon in the wake of budget decisions made by county commissioners.