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November would have possibly seemed like a quiet month, but there’s still plenty of news to report. From election night to Snowmass, Condé Nast’s number one ski resort, here are the most sensible November headlines in Aspentimes. com.
Krabloonik Dog Sledding wants to rehome more than a hundred Alaskan huskies.
The order comes after a settlement with the town of Snowmass Village approved in July deemed this 2023-24 winter season the dog sledding operation’s final.
Krabloonik wants about 115 dogs to operate this season, owner Dan Phillips said, and he expects all of them to be tracked through the end of the season on April 1. You will have until June 1 to end your operations and vacate the property. according to the regulations.
—Lucy Peterson
After much fear and annoyance from the community, Aspen Skiing Co. Aspen Mountain Ski Lifts (Reuters) – Aspen Mountain and Snowmass announced Tuesday that lifts will finally start operating at Aspen Mountain and Snowmass on Thanksgiving Day.
“Those of us who have been here have noticed unusually warm temperatures combined with snowfall over the past few weeks, and we’ve also been nervous,” SkiCo CEO Geoff Buchheister said by phone Tuesday as he checked on the situation in the most sensitive part of Aspen Mountain. “But it’s a credit to our snowcannon team who took credit for those bloodless wallets that we’ll open on Thursday as planned. “
–Sarah Girgis
People voted for Snowmass, the number one ski hotel in the U. S. It is the first in the U. S. and Canada, at Conde Nast Traveler’s 2023 Reader’s Choice Awards, with Aspen Mountain and Aspen Highlands taking the number five and 14 spots, respectively.
“For our 36th annual Readers’ Choice Awards, voters weighed in on their favorite ski resorts in North America. Colorado resorts once again dominated the list of US ski resorts this year, with three of the four mountains at Aspen Snowmass making the top 10 (sic),” Jen Murphy reported on Nov. 7.
It is one of the main attractions of Snowmass, which in the past has struggled to be identified alongside its stunning sister, but is no surprise to those who know the ski area and the town best.
—Sarah Girgis
After a special legislative consultation at the Colorado Capitol ended last week, homeowners across the state are poised to determine how much their asset taxes will increase for 2023, which are due next year.
Values statewide increased by an average of about 40% after the COVID-19 pandemic, with rural hotel communities like Vail, Aspen, Steamboat Springs and Summit County seeing even larger increases.
—Elliott Wenzler
Establishing an understanding of Aspen’s own contribution to tourism issues is a vital takeaway from the Aspen Chamber Resort Association’s (ACRA) annual tourism outlook held Tuesday in the Lauder Seminar Room in the Koch Building on the Aspen Institute campus.
A resident feedback report collected responses from email lists, social media posts, and held hearings. A total of 2020 holes completed between November 28 and December 16, 2022, were collected, and 730 holes completed between May 30 and June 20 were collected for a total of 2,750 completed holes.
—Jonson Kuhn
While the world continues to firmly insist on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, sparked by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Israelis and took 240 others hostage, Valley citizens Erika and Rob Leavitt are closer.
Erika is the cousin of Rachel Polin, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old Israeli-American, who was allegedly taken hostage while attending an outdoor music festival at Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip.
Erika shared her family’s story of grief and anguish in front of a crowd of more than a hundred people Thursday night at an Aspen Stands solidarity event with Israel held at Gondola Plaza.
—Jonson Kuhn
Colorado voters on Tuesday night rejected an effort by Democrats in the state legislature and Gov. Jared Polis to reduce property taxes by cutting into the money available for state taxpayer refunds.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 60% of voters opposed HH’s proposal and 39% supported it, with 985,925 votes counted, according to the Secretary of State’s website.
—Elliott Wenzler
Lots of folks skipped the early turkey on Thanksgiving Day to head up Aspen Mountain and enjoy 41 acres of terrain on the upper slopes. Open runs included Dipsy Doodle, Deer Park, Silver Bell, and Tortilla Flats, which was accessible via the Ajax Express chairlift.
The Silver Queen gondola is open for unloading and unloading from nine to year. M. A. 3 p. m. , with the last download at 3:30 p. m. m. and the last discharge at four p. m. for tourist pass holders.
—Jonson Kuhn
The Snowmass Village Housing Office presented the first look at sketches for 80 units of affordable workforce housing, one of the largest projects for workforce housing coming from the town’s 2021 housing master plan.
Snowmass Director of Housing Betsy Crum and Clauson Architects Rawley Associates and Site Architects presented the Planned Unit Development (PUD) sketches to the Snowmass City Council and the Snowmass Planning Commission at a data meeting Monday evening. The proposed progression reaches two apartment buildings in the Faraway Ranch North subdivision, directly northwest of Snowmass City Hall. The apartments would add to the city’s developing affordable housing inventory and fulfill the housing master plan’s purpose of adding another 185 worker housing complexes.
—Lucy Peterson
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