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There’s no shortage of community input when it comes to the 2021-22 Aspen School District calendar: a recent community feedback survey posted on the district website has garnered hundreds of responses, according to district Superintendent David Baugh.
That feedback has led to some changes to the proposed 2021-22 academic calendar, Baugh said during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. The revisions primarily impact day-to-day scheduling for students, according to Baugh’s presentation.
A new, split schedule moves the elementary school hours earlier in the day: students in kindergarten through fourth-grade would arrive at 8 a.m. and be released at 3 p.m., with teacher hours from 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Matt Kuhn has been named the city of Aspen’s director of parks and open space.
Kuhn has been serving as the interim director since June.
Kuhn previously served as the business services director, operations manager and trails manager for the city’s parks and open space department and began his career doing summer seasonal trail maintenance in 2005.
“I feel honored to have this opportunity to serve the public by helping guide the preservation, stewardship and management of our valuable city owned public lands,” Kuhn said in a news release. “I understand how much our properties and facilities nurture our community and provide spaces to recreate, contemplate and share time with friends and family. I look forward to continue to guide the management of these community resources.”
Gillespie House, later dubbed the Ghost House, circa 1890. Photo Courtesy Aspen Historical Society
The “Ghost House” has been long forgotten because the house is no longer there, but in 1951 debate over its fate dominated community dialogue.
That was the nickname for the Henry P. Gillespie house. Gillespie, one of Aspen’s early founders and reportedly the first to become a millionaire, built the house in 1881. It cost $35,000, ($750,000 in today’s dollars), but at the time it was one of the most elegant of Aspen’s houses, a classic Victorian with lots of gingerbread ornamentation. Gillespie, one of the first mine investors to come to Aspen, bought the Spar and Galena claims on Aspen Mountain from two of the first prospectors to search the area.
Public health officials will end Pitkin County s mass vaccination clinics earlier than expected after numerous cancellations last week and a dwindling local interest in getting vaccinated.