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Roundabout rebuild on track to disrupt traffic next summer aspentimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aspentimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Local restaurateurs Samantha and Craig Cordts-Pearce stand outside their newest acquisition in Woody Creek on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) Temporary expanded seating on the Woody Creek Tavern’s patio will be allowed through the end of 2021. Pitkin County commissioners approved the request by the Tavern’s new owners at their regular weekly work session Tuesday, while also directing county staff to work with the community and look into ways to slow down traffic in front of the popular, at-times crowded bar and restaurant. “I would totally be in favor of approving the extension of the expansion area,” Commissioner Francie Jacober said. ....
Pitkin County commissioners on Tuesday approved $1.3 million in short-term fixes for the county jail to make it safer for inmates and employees. The fixes, however, will more than likely not be incorporated into long-term plans for the Pitkin County Jail, which officials have said needs to be completely gutted and re-designed or rebuilt elsewhere. “I hold out little hope that we can incorporate this fix into a new design,” said Board Chairwoman Kelly McNicholas Kury, who told her colleagues she’d been reading up on new jail designs and realized the current facility is very dated. Pitkin County sheriff’s deputies transferred all long-term jail inmates to the Garfield County Jail in March as part of a plan to upgrade safety measures at the 30-year-old jail. No inmates currently are kept at the jail for more than 48 hours and the jail’s work release program which allowed inmates to work during the day and report back at night was temporarily canceled. ....
Pitkin County board ponders wildfire detection cameras aspentimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aspentimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.