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Welcome to Carbondale, Colorado! The picturesque town of Carbondale is located 170 miles west of Denver, 12 miles from Glenwood Springs, and 30 miles from Aspen in the heart of Colorado's central Rocky Mountains. At an altitude of 6,181 feet, and resting in the magnificent shadow of 12,953-foot Mount Sopris, the Carbondale area is characterized by an average of 295 days of sunshine, low humidity, cold but mild winters and comfortable summers.

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Carbondale Area NewsThursday March 11, 2010

GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Interstate 70 through the Glenwood Canyon reopened about 3 p.m. this afternoon.
The Colorado Department of Transportation had been working on getting one traffic lane in each direction open on through the canyon since a rock fall closed the road early Monday morning.
Crews were able to open the interstate to one lane in each direction with a 14-foot width restriction, and speeds are reduced to 40 mph through the canyon.
CDOT Maintenance crews began clearing snow in the canyon early Thursday morning and began work to make the repairs necessary to open a single lane of traffic in each direction.
Crews cleared rock debris from all lanes which were brought down from yesterday's mitigation work removing a large boulder above the fall area. The blast brought down about a dozen larger boulders, and many smaller rocks.
Repairs to the elevated roadway's drainage system and roadway patching in numerous places where boulders punched holes in the road surface are curr

I-70 detour is making Steamboat a busy town:

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colorado - Over-the-road trucks rumbled through Steamboat Springs in greater numbers than usual Tuesday afternoon, but civic leaders were looking out a month to the scheduled repaving of Lincoln Avenue/U.S. Highway 40.
The major highway that runs through Ski Town USA was designated one of two detours for Interstate 70 this week in the wake of a large rock slide that closed the four-lane highway in Glenwood Canyon. The slide occurred at about midnight Sunday.
"People are wondering if the closure will last through April 5," said Tracy Barnett, of Mainstreet Steamboat Springs.
That's the date when private contractors for the Colorado Department of Transportation are scheduled to begin preparing to tear up the asphalt paving on Steamboat's main street, which doubles as the major highway between Denver and Salt Lake City. The work is scheduled to take place in two phases, first during spring and suspending in June before resuming in fall.

Aspen officer's employment ended on conflict issue:

ASPEN - Valerie McFarlane's employment as an Aspen police officer ended last month after she failed to file charges against an Aspen newspaper editor for allegedly drinking and driving, officials said.

Instead, McFarlane, who was on work-related probation at the time, gave Aspen Daily News Editor Troy Hooper a ride to a residence on the outskirts of downtown during the early morning hours of Feb. 19.

Prior to the encounter with McFarlane, Hooper, who covers cops and courts for the Daily News, had written two articles related to McFarlane's September suspension. A Jan. 7 story titled "Officer admits to bad festival behavior" focused on McFarlane using her badge to obtain free VIP access for herself and family members to the Jazz Aspen Labor Day Festival. McFarlane was off duty but in uniform at the time she attended the festival.

Early in the morning on Feb. 19, McFarlane encountered Hooper in downtown Aspen. She stopped her patrol car behind Hooper's vehicle

Plenty of jockeying in Rifle murder case:

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Heath Johnston sat hunched over, hanging his head, as he listened to a recording of his interrogation with Rifle Police Lt. J.R. Boulton, which occurred hours after he allegedly shot his brother, Sam Johnston, 26, on Dec. 15, 2008.
Only a few times did Johnston, 21, look at his image on the screen.
The recording was presented Wednesday in Garfield County District Court at an all-day motions hearing scheduled to address several pre-trial motions filed by both prosecutors and the public defenders office in the first-degree murder case.
Johnston is charged with killing his brother by shooting him in the back of the head with a shotgun.
Public defender Steve McCrohan filed a motion to suppress statements and evidence based upon an unlawful search and seizure the night of the arrest.
They also argue that Johnston was interrogated twice before Boulton began the actual interrogation process at the Rifle Police Department hours after his arrest.
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The Aspen Daily News