This weekend celebrates Earth Day around the country with lots of different initiatives going on in an attempt to bring awareness to communities about the things we can do to help our environment.

The City of Glenwood Springs Spring Clean up is well under way with Zone 1 already done and Zone 2 in the process of being picked up. But if you live in the other Zpones then there is still some time to get cleaned out!

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This weekend marks the start of the Glenwood Springs Downtown Market presentation of “Spring Has Sprung”.

Starting at 8:00 am - 1:00 pm on 4/22/2006 (more…)

Blind triathlete, Nancy Stevens will teach an intensive 3-day camp introducing visually impaired women and female sighted guides to triathlon competition at the Hot Springs Pool on April 28-30, 2006. The Tri It Camp will focus on the methods of guiding, preparation, training and competing in triathlons, networking in communities, involving other guides and potential blind triathletes.

Participants should be enthusiastic, visually impaired women and guides who crave hands-on training in methods of guiding for open-water and pool swimming, cycling and running. Each participant must be able to swim freestyle at least two pool lengths. The purpose of swimming at this camp is to demonstrate how effective it is to swim with a guide when there aren’t lane markers to follow.

For more information email nstevens@sopris.net or call (970) 945-2171

The Glenwood Spring Chamber Resort Association is an informative and easy to navigate website that talks about things to do and what is going on in Glenwood Springs.

Coming up in April don’t forget to mark your calendars with the Valley View Hospital Health Fair going on at

Riverside School, New Castle
Date: 4/22/2006 Time: 7:00am TO 11:00 AM

And then at the
Glenwood Medical Associates, Glenwood Springs
Date: 4/29/2006 Time: 7:00am TO 11:00 AM.

It is a great yearly event to get your free health screening with optional blood tests available for cholesterol, cardiac risk, blood sugar, kidney and liver function.

Take along you used and out of date, no longer required Glasses for the Lions club “Glasses for the Masses” recycled eyeglasses program and your no longer required, doesn’t fit me anymore coat, for the coat drive.

May Day for Mutts. Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE) annual benefit and festival will be held at High Tails this year on Saturday, May 22, from 10 to 4. It will consist of an adoptathon, featuring dogs from several area shelters, birds from the Gabriel Foundation, Big Buddy Horse Rescue. Booths and tables will provide a whole day’s entertainment for pet lovers of all ages. Some of the attractions: (more…)

Things were already looking up for this year’s Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Festival. Then Trey Anastasio, the emperor of the jam band universe, signed on. Phish heads, start swimming upstream.

Anastasio, the former Phish frontman, joins other luminaries. Also in the hopper: Elvis Costello & the Imposters with Allen Toussaint; Costello’s wife, celestial jazz crooner Diana Krall; funk master Maceo Parker and bluesman Delbert McClinton.

So does an Anastasio appearance in Aspen mean a Phish reunion? Not so phast, says JAS executive producer Jim Horowitz. “Not here. It is not a Phish show,” Horowitz tells the Aspen Times. “I don’t think the venue is so suitable for a Phish show anyway.”

read the rest of this article by David Frey of Newest Front Page

Tuesday, February 14, 2006
PORTER: NEW POST PUBLISHER
Colorado Mountain News Media, operator of Swift Newspapers in Frisco, Vail, Glenwood Springs, Aspen and Grand Junction, announced Monday that Andrea Porter, currently associate publisher of the Vail Daily, will become publisher of the Glenwood Springs Post Independent. Mike Bennett, currently the Post Independent’s publisher, will assume the post of publisher of the Grand Junction Free Press.
-GS Post-Independent, 02.14.06
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Saturday Feburary 11th saw the glitz and glam come out in the valley. The Glenwood Chamber and Resort Association held its annual ball with a red carpet and plenty of celebrities (okay impersonations of celebrities but who’s counting?). (more…)

Monday, February 06, 2006
HANK BOSCO HONORED
Lifelong Glenwood Springs resident Hank Bosco was honored Saturday night as the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association’s citizen of the year at the chamber’s annual ball. Bosco, who grew up at Glenwood’s old Star Hotel and managed the Hotel Denver, has served as president of the Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge and Pool for 30 years.
-GS Post-Independent, 02.05.06

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Thursday, February 02, 2006
X GAMES: FINAL NUMBERS IN
The Winter X Games attracted a five-day attendance of 69,650, falling just 100 short of last year’s 69,750. On Saturday, The Winter X Games set a single-day attendance record of 28,250 visitors, while Sunday’s attendance was about 2,000 fewer than the same day in 2005.
-Aspen Daily News, 02.02.06
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