Pitkin County News

As the economy goes, so goes the garbage business in Pitkin County. The county landfill has seen a decline in its most profitable enterprises and will operate in the red in 2010, according to a budget presented Tuesday to county commissioners.

A Veterans Day observance will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Roaring Fork Valley Veterans Memorial, on the east side of the Pitkin County courthouse at 506 E. Main St., Aspen.

The airport was closed for two months in spring 2007 for a runway rehabilitation project.

Stewards of Pitkin County's Open Space and Trails Program wrestled Tuesday with whether to provide property tax relief or use a $3.5 million revenue windfall to buy properties while the price is right.

Liquid Sky and Junk restaurants in Snowmass Base Village have been put into receivership as a result of business owner Scott DeGraff defaulting on a $2 million loan to his landlord, court documents allege.

Thirty-seven bidders jumped at the chance to pay somebody else's property taxes Thursday at Pitkin County's annual tax lien sale.

A group of businesses, parents, governmental organizations and others is working to increase the quality and sustainability of child care for kids with parents who live and work in Pitkin County.

John Miller peruses what remains available from the delinquent property tax list Wednesday at the Pitkin County treasurer's office, intending to attend today's tax lien sale.

A program designed to spur investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects won big in Pitkin County on Tuesday, and by a lower but still comfortable margin in Eagle County.

Amber Fisk, a former employee of Aspen/Pitkin County Airport, was given a four-year deferred sentence Monday for using a county credit card to rack up about $3,900 in personal charges while she was employed in the airport's administrative office.

Basalt's plan to build a 1 million-gallon water tank to serve the Southside neighborhood could be significantly more expensive than estimated at a time when the town is pinching pennies.

Eagle County voters have been uninspired by the Nov. 3 election while Pitkin County voters showed slightly more interest.

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.

With the Pitkin County Open Space and Trails program looking at a property tax windfall of more than $3 million next year, its board of trustees must weigh the pros and cons of collecting the money or leaving it in taxpayers' pockets.

Dead lodgepole pines ring a Forest Service campground. Courtesy U.S. Forest Service GLENWOOD SPRINGS - The U.S. Forest Service's increased focus on removing dead trees along roads, trails and campgrounds won't hit Pitkin and Garfield counties nearly as hard as Eagle and Summit counties, according to the organizer of the effort.

The 9th Judicial District Attorney's Office saw case filings from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009 rise by 3.7 over the same period the previous year, and has a projected operational budget of $3.245 million in 2010.

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.

Pitkin County Commissioner Patti Clapper and her daughter Traci are teaming to try to stop what they claim are overbearing tactics by "rabid rangers" in the U.S. Forest Service.

Pitkin County Commissioner Patti Clapper said Monday she has intervened as a mom, not as an elected official, in a dispute between her daughter and the U.S. Forest Service.