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2 days ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rich Allen
A contingent of Aspen Junior Hockey youth girls went to Ball Arena to see the first Women’s Professional Hockey League contest in Denver in January. Next week, some of those top athletes are coming to them. Driven by a shared partner in Woody Creek Distillers, the PWHL is sending four players to Aspen to hold women’s only clinics for youth and adults on Thursday and Friday at the Lewis Ice Arena.
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2 days ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Jason Charme
The art exhibit “Unsui (Mirror)” by Sanford Biggers made its Paepcke Park debut this week, set to be on display into September. It features two sequined, pole-mountain clouds, and was commissioned by Desert X and Buckhorn Public Arts in Aspen, presented in partnership with Aspen Public Art. Biggers will appear for an artist talk on June 29 and the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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3 days ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rich Allen
Show Johanna Mueller someone who doesn’t like reading, and she’ll show you someone who just hasn’t found the right book yet.
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3 days ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Jason Charme
The Sardy Field Fire Department, the primary fire response agency for Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, practices extinguishing a burning aircraft on Tuesday.
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4 days ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Jason Charme
Aspen Elementary School students pour out of the building after the final bell on Tuesday, signaling the end of the 2024-25 school year. The middle school and high school students — excluding seniors, who graduated on Saturday — end the semester on Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rich Allen
Voces Unidas de las Montañas, a local Latino advocacy group, has called out the Roaring Fork School District and first-year Superintendent Anna Cole for what it perceives as inaction toward addressing inequity for Latino students. Frustrated after a calendar year of regular meetings with Cole, the organization publicly announced it would stop doing so until it believes that tangible progress on three plans it has requested to improve the district’s ability to serve Latino students is being made.
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1 week ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Jason Charme
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1 week ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Alison Osius
Some years back, my sister Meg asked an old friend if he was going to their college reunion. No, he said. He was in the middle of a divorce. “What am I going to say when people ask what I’m doing?” he said. “Oh, getting divorced.”My college reunion — the first in 10 years, since the one five years ago fell to COVID — looms, four months after I lost my job.
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1 week ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A federal judge ruled this week that prosecutors cannot use email evidence seized from the accounts of two codefendants when they stand trial for allegedly hiding a sanctioned Russian oligarch’s ownership of an Aspen home. In a 67-page ruling delivered Tuesday, Judge Gregory H. Woods of the Southern District of New York said an FBI agent recklessly omitted key facts when applying for a October 2022 search warrant used to obtain the emails of co-conspirators Vadim Wolfson and Gannon Bond.
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1 week ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rich Allen
Darienne Kenny won’t have to worry about claims of nepotism. When the Aspen Daily News was asked for the second year to select the Aspen High School male and female Athletes of the Year, we had no idea that both of Kenny’s older sisters Kylie and Michaela previously received the award, then named by The Aspen Times. Darienne Kenny earned the end-of-year senior hardware on her own merit — albeit after nearly two decades of being the youngest sister in a sporty family.