02/02/10 ASPEN - A 24-year-old man's plea for leniency could not persuade a judge from sentencing him Monday to nine years in state prison. Daniel Grine, who was arrested at his Aspen Village residence in April for burglarizing the now-defunct Rodney's Clinic Pharmacy in Aspen, was ordered to enter a regimental inmate training program as part of the nine-year sentence at the Colorado Department of ...
02/02/10 PITKIN COUNTY - Warm weather renewed an unwelcome trend in recent weeks: Drivers on Highway 82 whip downvalley with confidence bolstered by sunny skies and dry pavement. They enter Snowmass Canyon clipping along well over the 50-mph speed limit. They encounter a sheet of ice in a series of curves and - WHACK! - into the guardrail or another vehicle they go. It's a scenario that's playing out way ...
02/01/10 BASALT - The Wyly Community Arts Center is finally gaining the high-visibility home it has been seeking since its founding 14 years ago. The town of Basalt selected the Wyly as the nonprofit organization that can lease the old, vacated library in Lions Park. The arts center spent nine years in Woody Creek at the Community School campus and nearly five years renting free-market space in a ...
 02/01/10 GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Educators in area school districts are starting to collect hard data to help prove the driving theory behind a popular program begun six years ago to put books in the hands of preschool students from Parachute to Aspen. For three years now, the Garfield County School District Re-2 has been tracking incoming kindergarten students who have participated in the Roaring ...
 01/30/10 BASALT, Colorado - The developer of a stalled condominium-hotel project in Basalt wants to overhaul the plan and build something more likely to secure financing in the current economic climate. A Chicago-based firm called Snow River Lodge Inc. wants to convert the condo-hotel project into a traditional hotel, representative Jim Richmond told Basalt officials in a recent meeting. His company has ...
01/29/10 EAGLE, Colorado - A Carbondale man was convicted of first-degree attempted murder Thursday night for a crime of passion in the Basalt area that nearly led to the death of his ex-girlfriend. Ian Ranney, 26, faces up to 48 years in prison. The 12-member jury also found him guilty of first-degree assault, menacing with a deadly weapon and stalking. A fifth charge, crime of violence, was wrapped ...
01/29/10 ( American Geophysical Union ) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Heat from Pacific stoked Arctic melting"; "Satellite radar can gauge hurricane wind speed"; "Nitrogen constraints may accelerate climate change"; "Mysterious seafloor magnetic anomaly explained"; "Cloud processes improve climate simulations"; and "Icy spokes in Saturn's ring analyzed."
 01/22/10 HOUSTON----Schlumberger Limited today reported full-year 2009 revenue of $22.70 billion versus $27.16 billion in 2008.
 01/21/10 The World Heritage Site, on the north coast of Northern Ireland, has 40,000 basalt columns extending into the sea. The area surrounding it is home to wildlife ranging from peregrine falcons to seals.
01/21/10 ASPEN - Aspen entrepreneur Marcos Rodriguez made another addition to his rapidly burgeoning real estate empire Wednesday by acquiring Wendy Lucas and Co. Lucas has owned and operated her own firm, based in Basalt, for four years. She will now be managing broker of the newly formed Wendy Lucas Aspen firm under Rodriguez's ownership umbrella. Rodriguez has burst into the Aspen real estate market ...
01/19/10 BASALT - The final push of an effort to restore a historic building in Basalt and create a living history museum got an important fundraising boost last week. The Basalt Regional Heritage Society was named the co-beneficiary of the Roaring Fork Charity Classic, a popular golf fundraiser at the Roaring Fork Club. The other beneficiary is the Basalt Chamber of Commerce, which will use its share of ...
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01/18/10 A longtime dream by two downvalley school choir directors to bring together the best young voices in the Roaring Fork Valley for a valleywide children's chorus is becoming a reality. The Maroon Bel Canto Children's Chorus project began when Paul Dankers, music director at the Snowmass Chapel, contacted Kathryn Schmidt, choir director at Coal Ridge High and Riverside Middle schools, and Katie ...
01/15/10 Challenge Aspen to host Alpine World Cup Finals Challenge Aspen will host the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team as well as squads from 13 countries at the International Paralympic Committee 2010 Alpine World Cup Finals, from Feb. 28 to March 5 at Buttermilk. Some 130 athletes are expected to attend. Athletes in the sitting, standing and visually impaired divisions will compete in two downhills and one ...
01/15/10 CARBONDALE - Voters supported a sales tax hike in November 2008 to fund a massive expansion of the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority. Now it's time to see if they support the nuts and bolts of the plan. RFTA in February will unveil where it wants to place new bus stations, what they will look like and, in some cases, how new parking spaces will be needed for them. Although there hasn't been ...
01/15/10 ASPEN, Colorado - Voters supported a sales tax hike in November 2008 to fund a massive expansion of the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority. Now it's time to see if they support the nuts and bolts of the plan. RFTA in February will unveil where it wants to place new bus stations, what they will look like and, in some cases, how many new parking spaces will be needed for them. Although there ...
 01/14/10 State officials this week said they'll revise published data that showed Pitkin County residents' water consumption was the highest in Colorado.
01/13/10 BASALT - I've long considered the upper Fryingpan Valley easy to ignore as a wintertime destination. It's not that I don't think it's gorgeous, or appreciate the relative lack of crowds in the Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness, but it seems so far away. I'm not sure why the drive east out of Basalt, up past Ruedi Reservoir and beyond, feels like it takes forever, but it does. Coming back home seems to ...
01/12/10 EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. - Eagle County property tax bills will hit the mail soon, and many of those bills will be bigger than last year. Due to delays built into state law, county property owners will be paying their 2009 taxes this year based on a "snapshot" of property values taken June 30, 2008, before the local real estate market nose-dived with the world financial crisis in the fall of that ...
01/11/10 EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - Eagle County property tax bills will hit the mail soon, and many of those bills will be bigger than last year. Due to delays built into state law, county property-tax payers will be paying their 2009 taxes this year based on a "snapshot" of property values taken June 30, 2008, before the local real estate market nose-dived with the world financial crisis in the fall of ... | 
