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The “Living Lab” project that widened Castle Creek bridge for pedestrians and cyclists is being removed today and tomorrow.

This fall, as thousands of hunters head into the Roaring Fork Valley’s backcountry, they may find more mountain lions, but fewer elk. Environment reporter Elizabeth Stewart-Severy has the details of this year’s hunting landscape.

Leigh Stein is the author of three books, and the co-founder and Executive Director of Out of the Binders, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to advancing the careers of women and gender non-conforming writers. Her début novel The Fallback Plan made the "highbrow brilliant" quadrant of New York magazine's "Approval Matrix," and her poetry collection Dispatch from the Future was selected for Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books of 2012 list, and the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Land of Enchantment, her

The main party candidates in Colorado’s U.S. Senate race will meet Tuesday evening on 9 News for their only televised debate of this election.

The Aspen Skiing Company hopes to inform voters as part of its ongoing educational series.

Jeremy Jones is the founder and president of Protect Our Winters (POW), a climate change advocacy group made up of winter sports athletes. He caught up with environment reporter Elizabeth Stewart-Severy at an event as part of last week’s ski industry get-together “The Meeting” to talk about his work in the past decade.

The Garfield County Coroner’s Office today identified the young woman who was murdered Friday evening.

Three men who have been involved in the Aspen Center for Physics won the Nobel Prize this week. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of the prize to David Thouless, who served on the local physics center board for 15 years. The other half is being shared by Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz. Haldane also served on the Aspen Center for Physics board. Kosterlitz, like his fellow laureates, lectured and collaborated here as well. Jane Kelly is the center’s administrative vice

Welcome to Valley Roundup. I’m Carolyn Sackariason. Basalt town politics are still causing controversy; this time with an elected official lobbying her colleagues outside of the public eye.

A Basalt town council member violated open meeting law after she emailed her colleagues asking them to vote a particular way on a resolution coming before them. For commentary on this issue, John Colson, a reporter for the Sopris Sun, Curtis Wackerle, editor at the Aspen Daily News, and Jason Auslander, reporter for the Aspen Times join Aspen Public Radio’s Carolyn Sackariason. You can hear more of the conversation on Valley Roundup at 3:30 p.m.