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Welcome to a Valley Roundup. The results are in from Tuesday’s election. We talk nationally, regionally and locally about how ballot issues and candidate races shook out. Local 2016 election results are in So, what does a Donald Trump presidential win mean for the Roaring Fork Valley? Impact of Trump’s election echoes around the valleyA new district attorney has been elected for Rio Blanco, Garfield and Pitkin counties. He’s a republican. Jeff Cheney wins 9th District DA race Martin elected to

Valley View hospital in Glenwood Springs is opening two labs to improve care in the Roaring Fork Valley. One of them has a robot arm.

Patrick Ryan is the author of The Dream Life of Astronauts and Send Me, as well as three novels for young adults: Saints of Augustine, In Mike We Trust, and Gemini Bites. His fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Tin House, One Story, Catapult, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere. His nonfiction has been published by Granta and has appeared in Tales of Two Cities and other anthologies.

Joining Aspen Public Radio’s Carolyn Sackariason for Valley Roundup to discuss how the presidential race went in the state are Randy Essex, editor and publisher of the Glenwood Post Independent, Roger Marolt, columnist for the Aspen Times and Curtis Wackerle, editor of the Aspen Daily News. You can hear more of the conversation on Valley Roundup at 3:30 this afternoon.

This weekend, the curtains will rise on the Aspen Community Theatre (ACT) stage for the 40th year. The production is a retrospective of the many songs performed by valley amateurs, and their stories of how the organization allowed them to become - at least for a weekend - a star.

Nonprofit Aspen Youth Center celebrated its 25th anniversary last week. Aspen Public Radio’s Barbara Platts spent some time at the center and talked with the executive director and a longtime board member to hear about the organization’s history and where it is today.

Donn Markley lives in Glenwood Springs and works in real estate.

The Garfield County election results are in — and while they’re unofficial, the numbers from Tuesday night stay the same.

The Bureau of Land Management released environmental information this week about potential oil and gas development in northwest Colorado.

Representatives from the Western Energy Alliance, which represents over 300 oil and gas companies in the western United States, are praising election victories by Republican candidates Donald Trump and Scott Tipton. Environmental groups fear impacts from expanded development. Aspen Public Radio’s Elizabeth Stewart-Severy spoke with the Western Energy Alliance’s Kathleen Sgamma about potential effects of this election on the oil and gas industry.