Snowmass News

Jay Parker readies the annual cannon blast atop Smuggler Mine on Wednesday in honor of Veterans Day.

The financial challenges faced by Junk and Liquid Sky owner Scott DeGraff hardly came as a surprise to people familiar with operations of the now-shuttered businesses in the heart of Base Village at Snowmass.

Ron Weller lost his business from a tornado last year, his son says in a professionally done video submitted to Snowmass Tourism's "You Need a Vacation" competition.

Our Army was known for being an effective killing machine, until it was handed guerrilla wars far beyond its numbers.

Snowmass Village firefighter/paramedic Brandon Potter prepares to hand out stuffed animals to children in the African village of Kolunga, an island community in Lake Victoria, Kenya, last year.

Liquid Sky and Junk restaurants in Snowmass Base Village have been put into receivership as a result of business owner Scott DeGraff defaulting on a $2 million loan to his landlord, court documents allege.

Town trustees remain undecided on whether to annex a 10.2-acre section of land that would include dedication of the historic Thompson family farm house for a museum, and allow zoning for up to 85 new houses.

A lot of well-intentioned people support the effort to plan and eventually build a new indoor recreation center in El Jebel, but the Crown Mountain Park and Recreation District Referendum 4A is a bad idea.

As you can see, 300 people spelled out "Save Snow" on the base of Aspen's mountain on October 24 as part of 350.org's "International Day of Climate Action." They were one of 5,248 participating rallies worldwide.

A new nightspot, the Hunter Bar, will open this weekend in an Aspen space that has seen its share of ventures come and go.

The public is invited, Friday and Saturday, to a Halloween haunted barn for children in Old Snowmass.

It's time for Halloween. Kids aged 3 to 6 can celebrate for four days by attending a Halloween Story Hour at the Pitkin County Library on Wednesday, Oct.

Twine strung tautly enough across the Rio Grande Trail to injure a speeding bicyclist has prompted an investigation by the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office.

Unfortunately, several hot button issues keep interrupting what otherwise has been a very tranquil fall season The Aspen School Board finally came to their senses and agreed to deed restrict their recently acquired Owl Creek property to employee housing or other school district purposes for as long as the district retains ownership of the property.

The times, they are a changin'... Read the papers lately? It seems like the pendulum has swung once again.

When is the orgasm so good that murder is incidental to its release? Is the life of a 12-year-old child worth it, or the life of anyone, for that matter? We'll never know the answers, of course, because we're not the ones motivated by such hideous insanity.

A friend of mine who lives in Nairobi e-mailed me in the middle of Balloon Boy. "I continue to marvel at how Denver always seems to get these big-ticket stories," said Nick Wadhams.

Winter bookings for the new Viceroy Hotel in Snowmass Village are in the "seven figures" - but one positive sign for the resort's beleaguered Base Village project.

Eduardo had a problem. The president of the sophomore class, he had been given to expect a fire truck - through somebody's father - for the pep rally two nights hence.

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