Aspen Daily News

The Aspen Daily News is a weekly newspaper published every day, with a circulation of 14,500 (not audited) in the ski town of Aspen, Colorado. It has been serving the community since 1978 and is owned by Ute City Tea Party Ltd, a corporation based in Colorado.

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Last week in prep sports: Track records, swim success

2 days ago | aspendailynews.com | Rich Allen

In the closing weeks of the prep sports season, many schools are deep into the playoffs while some are still making their last appeals to rankings and qualifying marks. In track and field, official qualifiers for the upcoming state meet have not yet been released. Athletes have been taking their final shots at qualifying times with historic results, in some cases.
Local lacrosse teams make state quarterfinals

4 days ago | aspendailynews.com | Rich Allen

Three Roaring Fork Valley high school lacrosse teams are through to the state quarterfinals after handy wins on home fields this week. While the Aspen High and Roaring Fork High girls will face tough tests on Saturday, the Skier boys will face a familiar foe in the state quarterfinals on Tuesday after they downed No. 16 Green Mountain, 14-4 on Friday night.
Firearm incident lands jail time for Aspen man

4 days ago | aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll

An Aspen man’s sentence of seven days in Pitkin County Jail is scheduled to start today as part of his court punishment for discharging a handgun outside of an apartment complex during an early morning confrontation with his neighbor over television noise. At a sentencing hearing on Monday in Pitkin County District Court, Judge Laura Makar also ordered Noah McCuiston, 23, to three years of supervised probation and to perform 24 hours of community service.
Trump’s defunding of public media hits home

5 days ago | aspendailynews.com | Halle Zander

President Trump issued an executive order on May 1 demanding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cease all direct and indirect funding of NPR and PBS, prompting questions about the future of public media. CPB, a private nonprofit organization funded by Congress, monitors infrastructure and distributes grants to public media organizations across the country.
Your two cents

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Jason Charme

The Public Feeling Station, a public art project, hangs anonymous complaint and compliment boxes on a fence at the corner of South Galena Street and East Cooper Avenue in Aspen on Wednesday.
Last week in preps: AHS girls tennis sends 5 to state

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Rich Allen

The Aspen High School girls tennis team is sending a quintet of competitors to the state championship competition Thursday after qualifying through regionals. The five representatives marks the most since head coach Chris Kilgore took charge of the program in fall 2022.
Ground work

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Jason Charme

Construction crews tear out a section of the runway at the Aspen-Pitkin Country Airport on Tuesday as part of yearly maintenance at the facility. The airport, which closed for the project Monday, is scheduled to reopen on June 1.
Gents rugby stymied in regional finals

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Rich Allen

The Gentlemen of Aspen came up just short of another comeback that would have sent them to the national semifinals on Sunday. After rallying on Saturday to take down the Indianapolis Impalas in the USA Rugby Division II Club Northern Super Regional in Springfield, Missouri, the Gents took on the Kansas City Rugby Football Club on Sunday in the regional finals, nearly battling back from an 18-spread in the second half.
Recycling bytes

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Jason Charme

An employee with Blue Star Recycling from Denver tosses a MacBook computer into a box of discarded electronic waste at the Marolt Housing parking lot on Saturday. The city of Aspen sponsored the event that allowed people to dump their unwanted e-waste with no charge. The event, funded by the city’s paper-bag fee, resulted in 38 recycling boxes filled with e-waste unloaded by 298 individuals, according to officials.
Boat believed to be carrying migrants capsizes off California coast, leaving 3 dead and 7 missing

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Julie Watson |Christopher Weber

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A small boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized early Monday off San Diego's coast and left three people dead and four injured, while U.S. Coast Guard crews were searching for seven others, officials said. Initially nine people were reported missing but later two were found and detained, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Hunter Schnabel said. He did not know which agency detained the individuals or why.