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 Heather Rousseau/Aspen Daily News The setting sun silhouettes leafless trees near the Highway 82 roundabout in Aspen on Thursday. During the winter months in the Roaring Fork Valley, the sun sets at about 5 p.m.
by Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, November 21, 2008
October saw the lowest monthly volume of real-estate sales in Aspen since December 2004 and sales this year through October are down 47 percent compared to 2007.
“It is slow,” said Ryan Anslyn, a broker with Land + Shelter Real Estate and a director at the Aspen Board of Realtors. “People are just really skittish about doing anything, even people not necessarily affected by the stock market.”
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by David Frey, Aspen Daily News Correspondent Friday, November 21, 2008
As Garfield County marks its weakest real estate month in years, since March 2004, sellers appear to be more willing than ever to drop their prices to move houses that aren’t selling.
“Definitely people who have had property on the market for a while, and are seeing traditional slow months coming, are willing to negotiate more,” said Chris Patrick, a broker associate with Mason and Morse in Glenwood Springs.
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by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, November 21, 2008 Penny Pritzker has taken herself out of consideration for a cabinet post in president-elect Barack Obama’s administration.
Pritzker, an Aspen staple and Hyatt hotel heiress, had been reported as the front-runner for the commerce job. As national finance chair for the Obama campaign, she ran Obama’s record-setting $640-million fundraising juggernaut and has acted as an economic advisor. Full Story »
by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, November 21, 2008 A handful of kids were reported for smoking pot in a Basalt movie theater screening of “Zach and Miri Make a Porno” last Friday night.
Police responding to Movieland found four suspected stoners sitting in the back row of the theater taking in the raunchy romantic comedy. They say a 19-year-old member of the group ‘fessed up to having some marijuana, and he was arrested for possession of less than an ounce of the drug. Full Story »
From the Associated Press Friday, November 21, 2008 DENVER — This ski season is shaping up to be the worst in years, according to a Canadian ski resort company that has announced it has laid off workers across a dozen resorts, including three in Colorado.
Vancouver-based Intrawest Corp. hasn’t said exactly how many workers it let go, but company officials say the weak economy is squeezing the ski resort business. Full Story »
Aspen Daily News Staff Report Friday, November 21, 2008
Two local human service agencies are getting a piece of $1 million in emergency funding distributed throughout the state in the wake of the economic crisis.
The El Pomar Foundation of Colorado Springs created the Colorado Assistance Fund to immediately ease the crunch on food, shelter, health care and clothing costs that more and more families are feeling this winter. The grants are being distributed though the foundation’s nine regional councils across the state.
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