This story, a collaboration between Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism, is the first in a two-part series looking at the impacts of COVID-19 across six Western Slope counties. Challenges for health care providers included dealing with a transient community, staffing issues and public angst.
This story, a collaboration between Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism, is the first in a two-part series looking at the impacts of COVID-19 across six Western Slope counties, including Pitkin, Eagle, Garfield, Mesa, Delta, and Gunnison. Challenges for health care providers included dealing with a transient community, staffing issues and public angst
For the past five-plus years I have sat in a big chair in a small office on Hyman Avenue watching life in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley play out in front of me.
“Call it nostalgia, a desire for simpler times, or a way to manage my mental health, but I wanted to return to the restaurant industry. So, I spent the winter 2021-22 season working part time at Ellina on the Hyman Ave. pedestrian mall.”