It’s hard to believe, but the Aspen Daily News turned 30 this month.

Founders Dave Danforth, Lee Duncan and Mark Shaw began this paper on July 1, 1978, on what they say was a lark. Stringing together stories only a few sentences long or even shorter, they slapped their work on a double-sided single piece of paper and scrambled around town delivering what was at the time the town’s only daily “newspaper.”

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