Just a little more than a month after beginning construction of the new Maroon Creek Multi-Use Trail, the project has already dipped into more than half of its contingency funds.
Project managers are closer to building a new, clearly-defined trail for pedestrians and cyclists leading up to Aspen Highlands and the Maroon Bells, and bypassing the Aspen School District campus.
A nordic ski race which runs between two mountain communities has been moved entirely into one town to avoid a number of moose now occupying an area of the race route.
Tom Moore doesn’t like what has happened to his neighborhood on McLain Flats Road over the last 56 years, so he and his wife, Carolyn, are doing something about it. They are negotiating a conservation deal with Pitkin County.
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