Andre Salvail

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Andre Salvail

It’s happened a few times before, and always in late April or early May. While at home in the upper Roaring Fork Valley, on the eve of my trip back home to Louisiana for JazzFest, while packing clothes and doing other errands necessary for the New Orleans music-themed vacation, it hits me. “The Aspen crud.”The crud is something that probably means something different to different people.

3 weeks ago | aspendailynews.com | Andre Salvail

Aspen Fire Department personnel roll up hoses next to one of three engines responding to the scene of a small blaze in the Aspen Airport Business Center at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. The kitchen fire was contained to one room of an apartment unit in the 400 block of AABC. Aspen Ambulance also responded to the incident. No other details were immediately available. Updates will be posted to aspendailynews.com.

4 weeks ago | aspendailynews.com | Andre Salvail

Steve Crown, executive chair of Chicago-based Henry Crown & Co., which owns Aspen One, the parent company of Aspen Skiing Co. and related entities, sat down for a brief interview with the Aspen Daily News at the Limelight Hotel on Tuesday morning. Aspen One CEO David Tanner also participated in the discussion. Crown and Tanner addressed rumors that the company is positioning itself for a future sale.

2 months ago | aspendailynews.com | Andre Salvail

Protesters of the Trump administration's policies and recent actions wave signs at motorists passing Paepcke Park on Saturday afternoon. The planned protest at the park drew about 80 people for an afternoon of speeches and expressions of discontent with President Trump and his closest adviser, Elon Musk, as well as Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Grand Junction.

2 months ago | aspendailynews.com | Andre Salvail

The late-1960s and early ’70s were said to be the “Age of Aquarius.” If I were to label our current time in history, I’d call it the “Age of Anxiety.”And there are solid reasons to be anxious. The biggest: We have a new presidential administration that seems hellbent on upheaval for upheaval’s sake — there doesn’t seem to be a lot of logic or reason behind most of the orders being handed down from above. Unless you are a firm believer in the MAGA movement, you are worried.