Pitkin County Judge Erin Fernandez-Ely is retiring in October, after 21 years and thousands of misdemeanor cases. She made an impact on just as many people’s lives.
Aspen Police taped off the area around the intersection of South Galena Street and East Hyman Avenue after a pedestrian-vehicle collision that killed a 5-year-old girl on March 15, 2020. (Maddie Vincent/The Aspen Times file photo)
A longtime local real estate agent pleaded guilty Tuesday to striking and killing a 5-year-old girl with her SUV in downtown Aspen more than a year ago.
And while Heidi Houston will avoid jail time as part of a plea deal, part of her sentence was to come up with a plan that honors Hannah Heusgen’s love of ballet and horses, and improves the safety of the intersection where the accident occurred in March 2020.
Aspen Valley Hospital was down 25 staff members mid-March, all who were âself-monitoring at home and in isolation due to symptoms that range from mild to moderate,â AVH Chief Marketing Officer Jennifer Slaughter said at the time. Aspen Daily News file photo
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Note from the editor:
Today and Thursday, the Aspen Daily News runs its annual review of the yearâs biggest stories â and what a year itâs been. In todayâs paper, we recount five of the Top 10 stories that impacted the community, from No. 6 through No. 10. This year seemingly more than ever, the look back serves as a reminder of from where weâve come as a community. Unsurprisingly, the bottom half of the list are articles from the beginning months of the year, when this editor found herself practicing saying âepidemiologicalâ aloud and reading the latest in the New England Journal of Medicine to keep up with what exactly was known about a nov