Garfield County News

CARBONDALE, Colorado - A plan by the Roaring Fork School District Re-1 to build affordable teacher housing on 12 acres of school property in Carbondale earned a favorable nod from the town's Planning and Zoning Commission Thursday night.

One of the more controversial aspects of Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario's two terms in office has to have started on the day he bought the vehicle known as the BearCat.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Garfield County's citizen planners this week recommended that a set of natural-gas wells that have been operating without the proper permits for years be granted those permits and allowed to keep operating.

An arrest has been made in Great Britain, in a 12-year-old murder case out of Garfield County.

Scotland Yard agents arrested a 46-year-old Colorado man in England Wednesday for the 1997 murder of his wife, authorities said today.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - A Carbondale man hoping to win increasing public support to expand an after-school activities program ran into a patch of rough seas this week while talking with the Garfield County commissioners.

A former Aspen police officer suspected of reporting to work intoxicated and then driving has pleaded guilty to reckless driving.

Leslie Rockey still gets her hands dirty on occasion. As she sees it, It's part of her job as executive director of Colorado Animal Rescue.

Lisa Bracken now has Garfield County officially on her side in her struggle to pressure state bureaucrats into doing more about her case.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The residents of Garfield County are now also the residents of a "Clean Energy Finance District." The Board of County Commissioners on Monday created the new district, with the same boundaries as the county, to provide funding options for those interested in energy-efficiency improvements to their homes and businesses.

Ninth Judicial District Attorney Martin Beeson has decided against seeking the death penalty in the case of a Rifle man accused of shooting and killing his brother last December.

Emergency management officials are continuing to hammer out the details for providing an emergency ambulance system for the area around Silt and New Castle next year.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - A Glenwood Springs man will spend the next six months in the Garfield County Jail for threatening sheriff's deputies with a shotgun, and striking a man with his truck.

A proposed development in Spring Valley, which has been on the local governmental radar screen for decades, is expected to go before Garfield County in December to file the final, formal documents for Phase I of the multi-phase project.

ASPEN, Colorado - Some Roaring Fork Transportation Authority officials acknowledged Thursday they are playing a game of "chicken" with Garfield County, Silt and Rifle over bus service.

Garfield County Search and Rescue volunteers are still responding, despite an Oct.

A loop road in western Garfield County remains closed after more than a year of legal wrangling, a bungled pipeline project and property disputes, and officials say they have no idea when the road will be reopened.

A 32-year old man is dead after rolling his car several times in Garfield County.

A former Rifle barbershop owner left Colorado on Wednesday to start a new life after being cleared of charges of sexual assault on children, his attorney said.

Whether or not there should be new federal oversight of the oil and gas drilling industry, partly aimed at forcing the industry to disclose exactly what chemicals it is putting into the ground, will take center stage at the Garfield County commissioners meeting on Monday.