Basalt News

Kathy Hall of Rifle is a volunteer with the Street Cat Coalition. Last week, she brought Dori the cat in to Divide Creek Animal Hospital for vaccinations and to be spayed.

Emily Jane Wildey and Jordan Webster Cole were married July 23, 2011, in an outdoor ceremony at Aspen Glen Country Club in Carbondale.

The Roaring Fork Re-1 school board is willing to work with local police agencies and a student immigrant rights group to ensure school resource police officers working in Re-1 schools are not in the business of immigration enforcement.

A wide variety of fine chocolates, many crafted especially for Valentine's Day gift-giving, are available at John Bellio's shop, The Chocolate Moose, in Glenwood Springs.

The proposed management plan for the 25-acre Grace Park, west of Basalt High School, includes a community garden and pasture on a lower bench, a BMX course on the middle bench and passive open space on the upper slope.

The Roaring Fork District Re-1 school board will cast a wide net as it seeks applicants for the superintendent's job, and in gathering widespread community input on the qualities people would like to see in a new superintendent.

Rules are rules, and they usually exist for a reason. That aside, we can't understand why the Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority won't bend its rules a little in the name of common decency to give a local woman more time to find a job so that she can keep her Truscott Place studio apartment.

The Basalt Regional Library District will not give the library's former director a severance payment, the board of trustees announced Tuesday at a special meeting.

The Aspen Hope Center spent its first full year of operation answering the phone, among other endeavers related to suicide prevention.

Our community, like many other communities, has its share of problems. There are issues that create conflict, problems that need to be resolved, etc.

Employees at 10 Basalt liquor stores and restaurants were cited for serving alcohol to minors Wednesday night in an undercover operation headed by the Basalt Police Department.

Editor's note: The Garfield County Sheriff's Department reports the following incidents and arrests.

Routt County Commissioner Diane Mitsch Bush has announced she is running this year to represent the new Colorado House District 26, which includes part of the mid-Roaring Fork Valley.