Local Politics

The Basalt Regional Library and the Basalt Education Foundation partnered to host a School Board Candidate Forum. Listen in as candidates answer questions from the community and get to know them in advance of the election on November 7th.

Name and age? Auden Schendler, 45What brought you to Basalt and what keeps you here? I came here because I wanted to be in the mountains. I stay here…

Name and age? Herschel Ross, 73What brought you to Basalt and what keeps you here? I started a second dental practice here in ’93. I found that when I had…

Name and age? Jacque Whitsitt, 62What brought you to Basalt and what keeps you here? Basalt was my husband’s childhood vacationland. His family traveled…

Name and age? Jennifer Riffle, 37What brought you to Basalt and what keeps you here? Affordable housing, small-town character and temperate climate…

Name? Katie Schwoerer (no age given)What brought you to Basalt and what keeps you here? Basalt is my home because I enjoy the town’s historic, small-town…

Name and age? Leroy Duroux, 66 What brought you to Basalt and what keeps you here? I was born in Aspen and my family moved to Basalt in 1963. My wife…

Name and age? Rick Stevens, 64What brought you to Basalt and what keeps you here? We came to Basalt after 11 years in Aspen in 1987 because the community…

Name and age? Rob Leavitt, 51What brought you to Basalt and what keeps you here? I moved to Basalt from Aspen after my second daughter was born. Though I…