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When Montgomery Chitty was arrested during the bust of a senior-citizen cocaine ring in 2011, there were more titters about an "over the hill" drug gang operating in this celebrity-studded, laissez-faire resort town than there was outrage over the smuggling of hundreds of kilos of cocaine.

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When Montgomery Chitty was arrested during the bust of a senior-citizen cocaine ring in 2011, there were more titters about an "over-the-hill" drug gang operating in this celebrity-studded, laissez-faire resort town than there was outrage over the smuggling of hundreds of kilos of cocaine.

Andre Salvail/The Aspen Times Skye Skinner, executive director of Compass, and Jim Gilchrist, principal of Aspen Community School, announce on Tuesday from the stage of the Wheeler Opera House that the Woody Creek charter school will be eligible for a $4.2 million grant from the state.

In March, Mary and Pat Scanlan and Mark Kleckner of Woody Creek Distillers opened the doors of their 10,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art distillery and tasting room in Basalt, unveiling five ultra-premium American spirits, each distilled and bottled in the Aspen Valley using spring water from Basalt and locally grown produce from the Scanlan ... (more)

In 1967, the FBI was keeping close tabs on The People's Weekly, the communist party's west-coast newspaper affiliate.