Aspen Daily News

3 days ago | aspendailynews.com | Roger Marolt

Not many might recall that I used to write a weekly column for the Snowmass Sun. Scribing for the tiny paper that has mostly resembled an insert for The Aspen Times wasn’t my first assignment as a writer. I had been at the Times for several years before. To the best of my recollection, the editor of the Sun asked me to fill in for a “couple of weeks” while she searched for a new columnist to replace a regular who suddenly quit. Those couple of weeks turned into a 15-year run. It wasn’t bad.

4 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.

6 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.

6 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.

1 week 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.