What would inspire a 9-year-old to spend her fall break trekking to Everest Base Camp? A healthy dose of sibling rivalry. Emily Bassion and her mom, Kirsten, made the nine-day trek to Base Camp just.
Aspen School District is plugging along on deferred campus maintenance and staff housing acquisitions funded by a $114 million bond. But some of the projects that were mentioned in the 2020 bond campaign like a new Cottage preschool, revamped District Theater and upgraded bus barn have hit some snags.
For round two of the Challenge America Guitar Project, another group of local artists have crafted nearly three dozen more works of guitar art, which are now on display at the Red Brick Center for the Arts before they go to veterans.
Throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, educators with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies find a sense of place and community that many stick around for in the long haul.
After a one-year pandemic hiatus, the 20th Annual Fraser Creative Writing Contest for Aspen Elementary School third and fourth graders had three winners in 2022: third-grader Annabelle Coyle and fourth-graders Estella Winter and Emily Nitti, who tied for top honors.