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With their college applications out the door, most of the valley’s college-bound high school seniors are switching tracks and contemplating the financial component of their post-secondary life.

Prior to the holiday break, the Summit Tigers boys basketball team had only one win on the season and was grappling with the loss of nine seniors from last year’s team. In other words, the...

It’s been an uphill battle for the Roaring Fork volleyball team this season, but on Tuesday they reached a summit.

The El Jebel area in unincorporated Eagle County outpaced Basalt in population growth between 2010 and 2020, according to data reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Basalt Town Council will hold an affordable housing summit to determine if it needs to alter its policies and mitigation requirements.

Scott Condon/The Aspen Times Infrastructure work has started on the Stott’s Mill project near Basalt High School. Scott Condon/The Aspen Times The midvalley is experiencing a construction boom this year that will result in a population surge down the road. There are 11 major projects for residential, commercial or mixed uses that are under construction, soon to get underway or in the planning process, according to an assessment of records by The Aspen Times. More projects are poised to enter ...

For the Aspen Times Weekly Mark Howard has embraced change since he moved to Aspen, at 22, in 1973. He was a ski bum and restaurant server who rewired to become a 9-to-5 white-collar guy and family man. He he was a financial advisor who, at age 57, took a 90% paycut to teach English at Basalt High School. Now retired, he’s published a nontraditional memoir about his concept of periodically “rewiring” one’s life. The new book, “A Rewiring Life,” is excerpted here. I arrived in Aspen...

Talk about a comeback. A project that likely will be the last large residential development in Basalt broke ground this month 12 years after the Great Recession knocked it to the back burner. A company called MSP Development Group will build 64 apartments in four buildings and sell 49 single-family home and duplex lots in a project known as Stott’s Mill. The 18-acre site is between the Southside neighborhood and Basalt High School. It’s one of the last large, undeveloped parcels in Basalt, ...