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The town is hoping to fundraise $500,000 before the end of the year. When the pool opens next summer, it will be powered entirely by electric heat pumps running on renewable energy.
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Carbondale Clay Center is fundraising for a new building, which will expand programming, including more bilingual offerings, youth empowerment, outreach, mental health and LGBTQ+support and more. The new building will be located in the same spot — along Main Street in Carbondale.
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The Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority has decided against making changes to its rightsizing program, after earlier this year weighing ways to incentivize the program that has been used only three times.
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Food aid groups in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys say the suspension of federal benefits will exacerbate the region’s growing hunger crisis. The Colorado legislature is trying to bolster funding at food banks to account for an expected increase in demand.
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As school board races in Colorado and across the country become more politicized, clear partisan divides have emerged between the four candidates vying for two seats on the Roaring Fork School District board in the November election.
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Anderson Ranch Arts Center will cap off its fall Latine community arts programming with a Day of the Dead event this weekend. The arts center will also continue its fall lecture series throughout November.
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Major fire mitigation projects have been completed throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, but many insurers don’t know about those initiatives. A new portal could identify which neighborhoods have invested in wildfire prevention.
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Eagle County and the town of Basalt ask voters to bump taxes on visitors by 2%. The questions come just a few months after the town voted to impose a hefty fee on short-term rentals.
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When kids do not have a mentor in their lives, studies show it leads to poor development and difficulty overcoming challenges. The Buddy Program is pairing students with older peers and community members to try to provide students with the mentors they need.
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Longtime Aspenite and community supporter Gideon Isaac Kaufman, 77, died Sunday in a solo bicycle crash on Castle Creek Road, officials said.
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The department says the money is necessary to meet growing demand for fire and emergency services amid falling revenue. It would also go toward housing to make their volunteer-supported operations sustainable.
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The $70 million debt issuance would help fund the rental complex.