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3 days ago |
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
The records custodian for the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office properly followed state law when he rejected a media company’s request for records related to the agency’s response to the death of an elderly hiker in October, a judge ruled. In a four-page written order delivered Friday, 9th Judicial District Court Judge Denise Lynch determined that Charles Matthews, the sheriff’s office’s custodian for 14 years, rightly withheld investigatory records because they related to an “at-risk” adult.
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5 days ago |
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
Rep. Nancy Pelosi stuck to the script at Paepcke Auditorium on Sunday night. In Aspen for a panel discussion, Pelosi joined the stage with three others to discuss their roles in the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which became law in 2010. The conversation was titled “Behind the Vote: How the ACA Became Law.” Likely due to its irrelevancy to the discussion, there was no mention of the United States’ strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran a day earlier.
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1 week ago |
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A district court judge will decide whether the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office can continue to deny a media company’s request for records related to the death of an elderly hiker in October. Las Vegas-based EWU Media LLC is challenging the sheriff’s office custodian Charles Matthews' refusal to grant the true-crime production company’s request for reports, bodycam footage and photographs associated with the county agency’s investigation into the incident.
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1 week ago |
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A four-decades-old Aspen property management company says it was the victim of a bookkeeper who embezzled more than $170,000 and possibly as much as $250,000, according to an investigation authorities launched in December. Pitkin County sheriff’s deputies opened a theft investigation on Dec. 12, 2024, after a report from the owner of the firm, which is based at the Aspen Airport Business Center.
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2 weeks ago |
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
Aspen city leaders are urging community members and businesses to moderate their everyday water use because of worsening drought conditions. On Tuesday, the Aspen City Council declared a Stage 1 water shortage with a goal to cut overall water consumption by 10% within city limits. Stage 1 restrictions, which are implemented during a moderate drought, are voluntary and lean on the public to ease up on their water use.
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