Aspen Daily News

4 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.

6 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.

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Andre Salvail

Lynette Marrero, liquid creative director for Aplós — a brand of non-alcoholic spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails — speaks at Thursday’s Aspen Chamber Resort Association member luncheon at the Hotel Jerome ballroom. The annual luncheon on the eve of Food & Wine weekend is considered a kickoff to the city’s summer tourism season. Marrero also is the beverage director for Aspen’s Raizado Festival, a celebration of Latino culture.

1 week ago | aspendailynews.com | Christine Benedetti

The Aspen-Pitkin Housing Authority oversees more than 3,200 units in the upper Roaring Fork Valley. That number has increased roughly 10% in 10 years, and with the Lumberyard project in development it will grow by at least another 277 units in the next decade.

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.