Town Talk: Snowmass council eyes work session to discuss tourism, labor impacts
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Snowmass Town Council grapples with area-wide labor issues
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It isn’t often that a Snowmass Village Town Council agenda item packs Town Hall to the standing-room-only brim and fills every spot in the parking lot. Nor is a post-approval party usually in order for a resolution or proclamation.
Unless, of course, that agenda item has to do with local legend Gracie Oliphant. A mayoral proclamation acknowledging her contributions to the town drew nearly 40 supporters (and one dog) into close quarters this week to celebrate a lifetime spent in service of the outdoors and the community standing ovation and rounds of applause included.
“Gracie described Snowmass herself as a place of pioneering spirit and kinship and camaraderie, a town that offered a strong sense of belonging and a place of neighbors and friends who were there for one another through thick and thin,” Oliphant’s friend Greg Smith said at Tuesday’s meeting. (Smith was the one who first brought the idea of honoring Oliphant to the town; the
Cougar Canyon, Cozy Point Ridge clear to keep things as they are
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