Back in November 2018, Aspen voters amended their municipal charter and moved the city’s general election from the first Tuesday after the first Monday of May in odd-numbered years, to the first ...

Between 1989 and 1997, early in my local government career, I worked as the finance director for the town of Steilacoom, Washington. Hard on the banks of South Puget Sound and the first ...

Do you hear them? They’re beating softly in the distance, easily mistaken for patriotism or a call for domestic unity. But ever so slowly, they’re growing louder, just as they have always done ...

Patterns surround us. We create them in our daily lives. We observe them in collective human cultures, in the individual lives of others, in nature and in the heavens. But mostly we take them for ...

It doesn't sound like Kama Menter's three-year-old son has those issues though. Quite the opposite in fact, as she revealed during a video posted to her TikTok channel kmenter6. Kama Menter couldn ...

An epiphany means having something important revealed to you in its entirety. I support Aspen’s affordable housing program. I want it to succeed and benefit future generations of workers ...

The holidays in Aspen are a special time. Snow is flying and the town has that festive winter look. Aspen is always a celebration, but during the holiday season when celebration is on everyone’s ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Helen A. Menter, (93), of Thornville, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at Altercare of Thornville. She was born on February 15, 1932 in New Lexington, Ohio, to the late Patrick and ...

Karen Menter Lowe has joined MCV Law as an associate attorney in the firm’s workers’ compensation and Social Security disability departments. Lowe graduated from Ithaca College and the ...