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 Heather Rousseau/Aspen Daily News Rebeca Dolores makes a shot as Mayett Ruiz watches while playing pool at the Aspen Youth Center on Tuesday during their free period from Aspen High School. When asked what they like about pool the girls replied, “It makes you think,” said Ruiz. “You have to have a strategy,” Dolores added.
by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office investigators yesterday began a duplication of the conditions that they believe killed a family of four by carbon monoxide poisoning in a home on Popcorn Lane east of Aspen in November.
With the assistance of an engineering expert hired from the Denver area, the investigators planned to run a driveway heating system throughout the night that they believe leaked the gas that poisoned the family. Their theory is that a PVC pipe carrying exhaust from the heater — a Munchkin-brand natural gas-powered snowmelt machine — leaked carbon monoxide gas into the crawl space in which it was housed.
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by Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Pitkin County commissioners told the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday that the county supports the federal agency’s plan to continue to officially restrict snowmobiles on Richmond Ridge to just the county roads in the area.
“Pitkin County feels very strongly that there should be no increase in motorized recreational use of the Richmond Ridge area beyond recent levels,” stated the county in a letter it sent Tuesday to the Forest Service as part of its comments on a draft travel management plan for the White River National Forest.
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by Curtis Wackerle, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Editor’s note: This is the last in a three-part series on Aspen City Council priorities in 2009. The first two articles focused on the economy and employee housing.
Might as well call it the year of the bus lane.
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by Curtis Wackerle, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Wednesday, January 7, 2009
An idea to turn off Aspen’s lights for two hours during a telescope exhibition at this weekend’s Wintersköl festivities has been shelved.
Homes and businesses are still encouraged to go dark between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, while a Harvard astronomer brings an array of telescopes to Wagner Park, but the city of Aspen has determined that there are prohibitive cost and safety issues related to turning off streetlights.
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Aspen Daily News Staff Report Wednesday, January 7, 2009 A recently released report confirms what most people locally know after a very snowy December — local snowpack is above average.
In the Roaring Fork River basin, the snowpack was 144 percent of average as of Jan. 1, according to data from the Natural Resources Conservation Service snow survey office in Lakewood. Full Story »
Aspen Daily News Staff Report Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Sy Omer Ouellette, 43, of New Castle, died Dec. 28, 2008.
He was born Feb. 7, 1965, in Laconia, N.H., to Omer A. Ouellette Jr. and Constance C. Jutrus. He obtained the ranking of an Eagle Scout. Full Story »
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