CARBONDALE - Today would have been Ed Smart's 93rd birthday.
The former Pitkin County resident died May 14 at Heritage Park Care Center in Carbondale after a respiratory illness. He also suffered from Alzheimer's disease over t

CARBONDALE - In a building where Carbondale children once learned, played and matured, an older crowd is now earnestly engaged in efforts to make the world a better place.

The nonprofit Third Street Center, which turns two ye

ASPEN - Each week we pick out our favorite and not-so-favorite tweets (at least those that are printable) about Aspen and display them on Sunday.
Here's what we found - in their unedited form - last week:
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ASPEN - A Forest Service wilderness ranger found another cow carcass Thursday near Conundrum Hot Springs, southwest of Aspen, but there was little evidence of bear activity in the area.
The agency intends to leave the hot sprin

SNOWMASS VILLAGE - When Related Companies put Base Village under contract recently, the package of assets did not include the right to brand and operate a hotel as The Little Nell Snowmass.
"The license agreement was term

EMMA - Two hikers reported a naked man running on Nancy's Path in the Emma area on Thursday, according to a Pitkin County ranger.
When the man saw the hikers, he reportedly jumped into the bushes and emerged wearing a pair of s

ASPEN - Aspen and biking is nearly synonomous. On the heels of National Bike to Work Week, the Aspen Cycling Festival will bring even more bikes to the streets.
For the seventh year, the festival's signature criterium will spee

LOCKHART BASIN, Utah - Old cyclists never die, they just change gears. That was the philosophy of me and my most frequent riding partner, Bob Ward, when we revisited Lockhart Basin in Utah's canyon country the last weekend of Ap

ASPEN - With the opening of Independence Pass last weekend, I, like many others, headed up in search of the last remnants of a ski season that seemingly never came.
The opening of the pass is always an exciting time of year: w

BASALT - Working behind the counter at a busy fly shop, I often get customers coming in who simply overthink their flies and setups so much that it cripples their performance on the water. These customers are, more often than no