Eleanor Bennett
Morning Edition Anchor, Reporter, and ProducerGrowing up in the valley listening to KAJX in her parents’ car on the way to school, Eleanor learned the power and urgency of community storytelling. She was further captivated by the medium while interning at APR after graduating from Middlebury College in 2015.
From there, Eleanor moved to New York where she covered issues of climate justice and women's empowerment for SiriusXM Radio and launched several podcasts from soup-to-nuts. Eleanor recently finished a project interviewing hundreds of New Yorkers about their dreams and fears for an interactive audio-visual exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum by the photographer and muralist, JR.
Making these kinds of personal connections with people from all walks of life and creating empathic spaces for them to tell their stories fuels her work. Eleanor is delighted to be back home in the Rocky Mountains working with the Aspen Public Radio team and local residents to shine a light on the critical issues that shape our valley.
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As the impacts of human development and the climate crisis worsen, native plants and animals such as elk, deer and bighorn sheep are declining in our region. To identify what areas most need protection, a group of local stakeholders conducted a three-year biodiversity study of the nearly 1 million-acre Roaring Fork River watershed. -
The Aspen Skiing Co. celebrated its 75th anniversary on Tuesday. The company pegged the anniversary celebration to the official opening of Aspen Mountain’s original chairlifts, Lift One and Lift Two. That event was held Jan. 11, 1947. Tim Willoughby remembers how his uncle and father helped build the lifts, which began spinning Dec. 14, 1946.
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Every year around this time, local residents join tens of thousands of people across the Western Hemisphere to record all the birds they encounter for the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count. Aspen Public Radio joined the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and the Roaring Fork Audubon Society for their counts on Dec. 18 and 19.
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The first cases of the omicron variant were detected in Pitkin and Garfield counties over the past week, and COVID-19 cases are on the rise as the Roaring Fork Valley heads into peak holiday season.
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Our public lands are at the heart of what makes the Roaring Fork Valley a unique place, but many people face barriers to enjoying them. At the same time, climate change has arrived — and it’s not impacting everyone equally.
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The Aspen City Council on Dec. 8 voted unanimously to pause most new short-term rental and residential development permits for six months.
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As a few lifts at the Aspen Mountain and Snowmass ski areas prepare to open for the winter season on Thanksgiving Day, Aspen Public Radio talked with Aspen Skiing Company's head of communications about a range of issues.
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After taking a year off due to the pandemic, the Aspen Indigenous Foundation is bringing its fourth annual film festival back to the Wheeler Opera House this weekend.
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Aspen Public Radio visited with local Aspen residents Weston Boyles and Jacquelyn Francis, who attended the climate-change conference held over the past two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland.
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The fifth wave of the pandemic continues to sweep across the state, and local hospitals are once again being stretched thin. As regional hospitals in places such as Grand Junction and Denver fill up, Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs has seen an influx of patients in recent weeks.
