Wednesday February 25, 2009

Has serious crime returned to Aspen?   Residents are alarmed at the armed robbery of a cab driver last Saturday night.
Cab driver Jeffrey Evans was answering a call at Truscott affordable housing when a white male in his twenties brandished a knife and demanded money.
    The bandit made off with about $140—-police are still looking for the suspect. No one was injured in the robbery.
    Mountain snow packs are in good shape—more than 115 percent of average in most areas—-but temperatures are definitely getting warmer and that—is causing rocks and boulders in canyon areas and other steep sections to break away with the spring thaw. 
       In Glenwood Canyon this week—-both lanes of Interstate seventy were closed for three hours after a rock fall that occurred, luckily, in the very early morning hours—the road nearly deserted at the time.
   Those spring temperatures will be with us again on Thursday, as we can expect temperatures in the upper forties.