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 Zach Ornitz/Aspen Daily News Alicia Booker, of Basalt, enjoys the afternoon sun by the ditch in Aspen’s Glory Hole Park on Friday during her lunch break. The weekend forecast calls for sunny weather with highs in the upper 60s and lower 70s, according to the National Weather Service.
by Curtis Wackerle, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, May 16, 2008
Information released this week by the city of Aspen details how the costs of the Burlingame Ranch affordable housing project increased from an estimated $184,000 per-unit taxpayer subsidy in 2005 to a $373,343 per-unit subsidy, which could jump as high as $484,906 per unit once the costs of borrowing the money to finish the project are figured in.
As now projected, Burlingame will cost $138 million to complete, requiring an $85.5 million total subsidy.
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by Catherine Lutz, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, May 16, 2008 A man whose bid for political asylum landed him in an immigration detention center for eight months is back home in Glenwood Springs — for now.
Henry Akim Gama, a self-proclaimed political refugee from Zimbabwe, was released yesterday on $2,000 bond from an immigration holding facility in Teller County south of Denver. Earlier this year he had faced immediate deportation.
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by Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, May 16, 2008
Landowner wants $31,000 tax break for growing $463 worth of hay
The Pitkin County commissioners denied a property owner’s request for a tax refund on Wednesday, saying the owner’s claim that the land is “agricultural” is a “sham.”
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by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, May 16, 2008 Two crashed vehicles and a cache of stolen liquor were discovered on Red Mountain Wednesday morning. Local authorities believe the cars — both pickup trucks — were stolen and crashed in succession by the same thief or thieves.
The first was taken from a parking lot on Lone Pine Road and crashed on the roadside of West Reds Road, where it was abandoned. Investigators said they found backpacks loaded with liquor stolen from the same apartment complex from which the truck was stolen. Full Story »
Aspen Daily News Staff Report Friday, May 16, 2008
Pitkin County road and bridge crews have been working to clear county roads of snow and reopen them for the summer after a big, snowy winter.
The upper part of Castle Creek Road from Ashcroft to the end of the pavement, where the unpaved road towards Pearl Pass and Montezuma Basin begins, reopens today Full Story »
Aspen Daily News Staff Report Friday, May 16, 2008 Vincent Joe Higens of Basalt passed away on May 11, 2008. He was 53.
He was born on Feb. 4, 1955, in Denver, to Gale and June (Bey) Higens. He married Joy Sande on Oct. 31, 1975, and lived in the Roaring Fork Valley for 28 years. Vincent was the president of Pitkin County Title. Full Story »
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