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Articles for Monday, July 21, 2008Homeby Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Monday, July 21, 2008
Well, Aspen, you are among the trimmest of the trim.
So keep hiking up Smuggler Mountain and slugging your wheatgrass cocktails. But don’t let it pad your vanity too much — you are still getting fatter, like everyone else in America.
by Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Monday, July 21, 2008
A popular boat ramp on the Roaring Fork River in Carbondale is expected to re-open this week for boaters and anglers.
The Colorado Division of Wildlife has reached an agreement with Stanley and Valerie Koziel, the owners of the land around the boat ramp, and a new five-year lease is expected to be signed this week.
by Catherine Lutz, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Monday, July 21, 2008
A new and generous incentive package is drawing strong interest in three vacant air traffic control positions at the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport tower.
The tower, which is controlled by the Federal Aviation Administration, has struggled to draw and retain employees because of the area’s high cost of living, a declining pay scale and a system that assigns small rural airports like Aspen’s to the bottom of the salary range. The revolving door of controllers has meant that the tower is often staffed less than ideally, and that existing staff work a fair amount of overtime.
by Curtis Wackerle, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Monday, July 21, 2008
Pitkin County’s unemployment rate remains low and flat, bucking a state and national trend towards creeping-higher joblessness.
Although Colorado’s unemployment rate hit 5.1 percent in June, the highest level since 2005, Pitkin County’s unemployment rate remains consistently below 4 percent, except during the off-seasons. At the peak of the winter ski season, the unemployment rate here tends to hover around 2.5 percent. Statistics are taken from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment Web page.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Monday, July 21, 2008 One of the upper valley’s main power lines shorted out on Saturday night, causing a small brush fire that almost led to a widespread power outage.
The short caused some plastic casing to melt and drip to the ground from the power line, which is near the North Forty subdivision. The hot plastic dripped into a brushy area and ignited the brush fire, to which Aspen fire department and Pitkin County sheriff’s office authorities responded at approximately 11:30 p.m. Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Monday, July 21, 2008 James Feddeck is a student at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen.
Question: Tell us about yourself: Hometown, family, when you started playing, how you decided on an instrument? Sportsby Jonathan Bastian, Roaring Sports Staff Writer Monday, July 21, 2008 It is a sport, a trend and a style that refuses to die in the Roaring
Fork Valley — a spark that was ignited more than a decade ago that has
burned unflaggingly from Glenwood to Aspen, touching every town in
between.
They descend upon concrete parks, waxed features on side alleys, hidden
rails and halfpipes. Their style is constantly in flux, changing with
the years — jeans, cargo pants, worn baggy, tight, ripped, or anything
in between. by Corby Anderson, Roaring Sports Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 “Walking among our people there is someone straight and strong, to lead us from desolation and a broken world gone wrong.”
— Neil Young by Tim Dahlberg, AP Sports Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 Brett Favre shed them, and all of Wisconsin cried along with him. The
rest of the country got a bit teary-eyed, too, and who could blame us.
His storybook run to the Super Bowl may have come up just short, but
Favre had given us one last great season to remember. And now, looking
more vulnerable than he had ever been on the field, he announced he was
finally done after 16 seasons as the quarterback for the Green Bay
Packers. Aspen Daily News Staff Report Monday, July 21, 2008 For 30 consecutive years runners have reveled in the beauty and
challenge of completing in the Mt. Sopris Runoff, which will make a
return appearance on Saturday, July 26.
The course begins at the 7-11 in Downtown Basalt and ends at Sopris
Park in Carbondale where the Carbondale Mountain Fair will be in full
swing. The race is one of the longest and most challenging in the
Roaring Fork Valley. The 16.5-mile course ascends approximately 1,500
feet on West Sopris Creek Road, and then descends 1,800 feet on Prince
Creek Road into Carbondale. Aspen Daily News Staff Report Monday, July 21, 2008 Columnistby Sheldon Fingerman, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 With the Aspen Daily News turning 30, this might be a good time to think about how old we are getting.
I remember picking up that first issue, and it sure seems like a long time ago. Yeah, I’ve been here a long time, but when did Aspen get this old? When did I get this old? I went into a restaurant the other day, and it looked like the cafeteria in a retirement village. I mean, everybody was really old. Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 The week started with economic flashbacks to the 1930s, with the federal seizure of California-based IndyMac bank swelling the lines of depositors desperate to get their money out. But midweek brought visions of another decade, as wholesale inflation made its biggest jump in 27 years, stoking new fears that 1970s-style “stagflation” could return like some bell-bottomed bad dream.
What decade is it, anyway? And how much substance, if any, is there to these fears of unhappy times being here again? SpecialAspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 Letter to the EditorAspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 Editor:
Pitkin County is asking for more taxes for roads this fall. Of course, better roads mean more development. Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 Editor:
Regarding Mr. Ted Rall’s column of July 17, 2008: Mr. Rall, you are an ignorant numb-skull. Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 Editor:
Appreciation to all those residents, visitors, and Harley riders who are making an effort to keep vehicular noise levels lower this summer. Even RFTA buses are driving slower to reduce unwelcome noise levels. Motorized noises are not as disturbing this summer as in past years, and I want to thank all those who are making an effort to return Aspen to the mountain haven it once was! Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 Editor:
Restoring trust and building community require community participation. That is why the first point in my 10-point plan to restore trust and build community is changing the time and place of public hearings. Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, July 21, 2008 Editor:
I just don’t get it.
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