A three-year legal fight following the 2008 deaths of a Denver family from carbon monoxide poisoning in an Aspen-area mansion has ended after the three plaintiffs reached a settlement with the final defendant and his construction company.

The settlement — the terms of which were not disclosed — was announced Thursday by William Hansen, the Denver attorney for relatives of Parker Lofgren, 39, and Caroline Lofgren, 42, and their children, Owen, 10, and Sophie, 8.

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Images of the ballots cast in the 2009 municipal election are available for public inspection now that a four-year legal battle between City Hall and an Aspen resident has come to a close.
 

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The nonprofit Independence Pass Foundation is trying to recover after one of its main fundraising events, Saturday’s Ride for the Pass, was canceled in both 2011 and 2012.

The weather-related cancellations were unprecedented, as the race had previously been held annually for 17 straight years without interruption, said pass foundation executive director Mark Fuller.

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In a mayoral runoff election that may come down to style over substance, two candidates who concede that they share similar values made their cases for who would best lead the city during their first head-to-head meeting on Thursday.

Torre, 43, and Steve Skadron, 50, two Aspen City Council members who advanced to a June 4 runoff election out of a field of six in last week’s vote, taped an hour-long sit-down with local journalist Brent Gardner-Smith in the GrassRoots TV studios. The program, an extension of GrassRoots' “Probeline” series, will air throughout the next two-and-a-half weeks until the election.

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