Lucy Peterson

Residents of the 98-lot Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park, located between Glenwood Springs and Carbondale, asked council members to contribute funding toward their efforts to purchase the park that was listed for sale last year.

The city of Aspen will take a new approach to preserving local businesses in town through a community land trust meant to keep commercial properties affordable. The city is in the process of receiving approval from the Internal Revenue Service to declare the Aspen Area Community Trust as a nonprofit organization.

Local, regional and state wildfire leaders are concerned about increased fire danger this summer as the Western Slope experiences its worst snowpack in over 40 years. But those agencies across the Roaring Fork Valley and the state are collaborating on fire mitigation and wildfire preparedness ahead of what is expected to be an extremely dry summer.

The Aspen City Council wants to take a new look at its development regulations in hopes of finding a way to nudge stalled projects along and minimize the amount of vacant buildings around town.

The city of Aspen is beginning a facilities master plan for the Aspen Golf Club campus to address aging and outdated facilities. The plan will outline updates to the entire campus, including the clubhouse, tennis courts and Nordic ski facilities.

The Woody Creek resident will remain in the Pitkin County Sheriff’s custody until resentencing. He was convicted as an adult sex offender at age 18 and released from youth corrections at 21.

Snowmass Village Town Council and its planning commission will review the project on March 16.

Agents reportedly detain person in Old Snowmass on Wednesday.

Four finalists for the subsidized restaurant space at 455 Rio Grande Place will present to Aspen City Council next week.