Rick Carroll

The Aspen School District plans to add more staff housing to West Ranch near Woody Creek, which currently has five duplexes occupied by faculty members and their families.

Aspen School District looks to buy, build housing for teachers, staff

September 21, 2017 at 4:55 p.m.

The Aspen School District may spend $840,000 on a three-bedroom condo as it looks to add to its employee housing stock.

Under a proposed constitutional amendment, Colorado taxes on a pack of cigarettes could go from 84 cents a pack to $2.59 a pack.

Tobacco tax鈥檚 fate will be in the hands of Aspen voters this November

August 22, 2017 at 12:17 p.m.

Aspen voters will be asked in November to bless a ballot question aimed at putting a $3 tax on pack of cigarettes and a 40 percent tax on other tobacco...

Aspen High School students Luca Morrow-Yeager and Jesse Lopez will lead an after-school program called "Always Thinking Like a Scientist" on Wednesdays this school year. They will work with upper middle school students on hand-on approaches to problem solving. The Smithsonian also is helping get the pilot project off the ground and will be monitoring its progression.

Smithsonian partners with Aspen after-school project

August 22, 2017 at 8:46 a.m.

The Smithsonian Science Education Center believes so much in an upcoming after-school program in Aspen that it has become its partner.

Aspen council eyes $10 cigarettes in town with a possible $4 flat tax

August 8, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.

Prices for cigarettes and other tobacco products in Aspen will see a substantial increase in the event that voters approve a local tobacco sales tax this fall.

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder, who is seeking the Democratic nomination in Colorado's 2018 gubernatorial election, was the final speaker at the Pitkin County Democratic Party's Seventh Annual Dinner at T Lazy 7 Ranch on Wednesday. Other gubernatorial candidates to speak were Noel Ginsburg and Mike Johnston.

Three Democratic candidates for Colorado governor cross campaign paths for first time at Aspen event

August 3, 2017 at 8:57 a.m.

Three Democrats running for Colorado governor crossed paths on the campaign trail for one of the first times on Wednesday night, speaking at a Pitkin County Democrats dinner where they...

Hub of Aspen owner Tim Emling stands with two of the three Trek dual-sport bikes that were vandalized last week. He called the vandalism "deplorable."

E-bikes vandalized in Aspen

August 1, 2017 at 9:20 a.m.

With all of the disincentives to drive into Aspen -- including gridlock at the town's entrance, the price of parking and the limited spaces to park 鈥� Lori and Larry...

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