Fishing guides up and down the valley are getting ready. Just recently the Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers are getting into floatable shape, and the summer fishing season is now underway.
Free copies of Louise Erdrich’s Aspen Words Literary Prize-winning novel “The Night Watchman” will be distributed to residents of the Roaring Fork Valley starting June 23, kicking off the third annual summer-long community read presented by Aspen Words and the Pitkin County Library.
Saddle Sore
There’s an Aspen Historical Society photo, posted on its Facebook page, taken of the front of Aspen Mountain circa 1955, looking up from Aspen Street. Black and white, of course, and just a bit murky, as though taken through a gossamer mist of incredulity. Of the many photo contained in the Society’s archives, this is one of my favorites.
Even though taken almost 10 years after the first lifts were installed on the mountain, there is something haunting about it, as though it is a forbidden look into a past we forsook in the interest of, well, of what? Eerily, it’s like an abandoned child sadly looking back at us.
Mark Munger will retire from his sixth-grade teaching position at Aspen Middle School at the end of this school year, but he’s keeping his roots planted in the Roaring Fork Valley,
The long-awaited expansion of the Pitkin County Landfill is expected to begin later this month and provide about six more years of life to the rapidly-filling facility