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ASPEN, Colo.—The shops are open and the streets are full of shoppers in Aspen, but the city’s attempt to ring in the New Year a day late isn’t the same.
Aspen planned a New Year’s Day fireworks display atop Aspen Mountain, a day after a series of downtown bomb threats canceled holiday plans in the resort. Dinners and parties downtown were also canceled.
Police say 72-year-old James Chester Blanning left four bombs around downtown along with threatening notes. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his car Thursday morning in a rural area east of Aspen.
No one was injured.
Revelers strolled Aspen’s Thursday night, but store owners say they won’t make up the business they lost.
