Michael J. Lyons was a volunteer firefighter for the Aspen Fire Protection District before he was terminated, effective Oct. 3, 2022, following interactions with the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office and Aspen Police Department on April 11, 2022.
Michael J. Lyons of Aspen, who is running for one of two seats on the Aspen Fire Protection District Board, was terminated in October as a volunteer firefighter by the district’s fire chief. Lyons, 51,.
Rescuers headed to the Castle Creek Valley twice this weekend to respond to separate calls for help in the backcountry, one on Friday and one on Saturday.
Rescuers headed to the Castle Creek Valley twice this weekend to respond to separate calls for help in the backcountry, one on Friday and one on Saturday.
Muck Off
Aspen’s summer Sister City, the Hamptons, had its woes summed up in a recent Vanity Fair article, “Rich People of the Hamptons Have a New Headache: Even Richer People.”
“I’m a 1-percenter. But I bear no resemblance to these people,” one longtime Hamptonite told the magazine. “It’s so expensive, there’s no more livability.”
The piece pointed to an $88 lobster Cobb salad at Dureya’s restaurant in Montauk among a pile of evidence that New York’s East End has “so much money now it’s nauseating.” (To which Aspen’s Cache Cache restaurant, home to a $42 plate of cauliflower rice, replied, “Meh.”)