Welcome to Valley Roundup. I’m Carolyn Sackariason. Joining me in the studio this week are Jason Auslander, a reporter for the Aspen Times and Curtis Wackerle, editor of the Aspen Daily News. And later, Randy Essex, editor and publisher of the Glenwood Post Independent will join me via Skype. Police are getting closer to identifying the suspect who slashed a $3 million painting in an Aspen gallery. Aspen cops zero in on suspect in $3 million painting slashing And, Mountain Rescue Aspen crews

The community of New Castle was spared earlier this week when firefighters were able to contain a wildfire before it spread to nearby homes but other Colorado towns are facing more serious threats .

Plans for the Gorsuch Haus hotel were put on hold this spring when Aspen City Council voted to suspend its review of the project.

Aspen’s pedestrian malls should stay how they are for the most part, according to recent outreach conducted by the Project for Public Spaces.

Pitkin County and the City of Aspen are re-visiting the process that could bring a bicycle trail to a short segment of Castle Creek Road.

Glenwood Springs has owned the Rosebud Cemetery since 1929, and its end could be near. The City Council discussed the issue Thursday during a work session.

Denver is the new home for the Outdoor Retailer Show, and the move from Salt Lake City has both symbolic and economic implications. Organizers estimate that the three annual outdoor industry trade shows — including winter and summer markets, as well as a Snow Show — will bring a total of $110 million each year to Colorado and draw 85,000 attendees.

Carbondale has expected a new City Market for many years now, but the project has been kicked down the road again and again. This past Tuesday, it was delayed for the sixth time.

I first met bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green when he was an Opera Colorado Young Artist. Just a few years before our meeting, Speedo was in solitary confinement in a juvenile detention facility. Now he sings at the Met (here he is giving a tour of the opera house with fellow star Susanna Phillips) and the Vienna State Opera, is happily married and has a child on the way. Between singing gigs, he has been on a year-long book tour after a book about him, Sing for Your Life, became a bestseller. The

Pianist, composer and Mozart devotee Robert Levin brings his completion of Mozart's unfinished Concerto for Violin and Piano to the stage on July 7. Conductor Nic McGegan joins in the conversation!