Friday March 6, 2009
No school today at the aspen school district——-following a bomb threat made on Thursday afternoon.
At 4 p.m. yesterday, school authorities were alerted to threat written in a boy’s restroom that a bomb was on campus……most students had left by that time—-but the pitkin county sheriff’s department evacuated all buildings, conducted a search—and turned up nothing.
As a precaution, classes are suspended today at the Aspen School district.
A snowboarder was killed at Buttermilk on Thursday—–30 year old instructor Chris Polk was not wearing a helmet when he hit a tree at high speed. The accident happened near or just after 12 noon yesterday.
Wind gusts hitting as much as 35 mph send dust and debris flying in downtown Aspen this afternoon—and, uprooted a sixty foot blue spruce tree!
The tree fell slowly over a period of more than one hour—and ended up leaning against the Mill and Main Building—–directly across Main Street from the Cantina—and directly next door to U.S. Bank.
No one was injured.
Be sure and watch our first airing of TV Aspen News Magazine —- a compilation of important stories this week—-with a look into the news of the future! Don’t miss it—-on TV Aspen Comcast Cable Channel 19, Resorts Sports Network—airing Friday at 10:30 a.m., and again on Friday Saturday and Sunday nights at 10 p.m.
