Each year, volunteers for the Eagle River Watershed Council s annual Community Pride Highway Cleanup remove hundreds of pounds of trash from local highways, and this year was no different.
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The Thursday afternoon mudslide in Avon meant traffic delays for many, but for some residents it has meant displacement and extensive damage that, in many cases, will be a cost shouldered by them and them alone.
For the residents of two housing complexes Beaver Bench in Nottingham Park and the Sonnen Halde condominiums on Nottingham Road Thursday’s mudslide was a horror they were completely unprepared for, one local said Friday.
“My main fear is that something could happen again before we have a chance to clean up and assess the damage from the first time, and make sure that we can do any permanent changes to avoid this happening in the future,” said Jennifer Lance, a resident of Sonnen Halde. “We’re definitely worried that it could get worse before we have a chance to make it better.”
An Aurora man has been charged with felony assault and domestic violence after he allegedly choked his then-girlfriend in Minturn.
Jamie Quintana will appear in Eagle County court next week on charges of assault by strangulation, a class 4 felony, and misdemeanor domestic violence, according to prosecuting documents.
Quintana’s charges are from the rainy night of June 23 into the early morning hours of June 24, when he and his girlfriend were staying at the Christie Lodge in Avon after she was recently released from prison, according to police reports from that night.
They were driving near Dowd Junction on the night of June 23 when Quintana became upset with the girlfriend, accusing her of mocking him, she told police in the report. The girlfriend then tried to get out of the car at the intersection of Highway 24 and Country Road P14, but she said Quintana grabbed her hair to keep her from leaving. She eventually got out of the car and started walking towards Minturn.