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Welcome to Valley Roundup. I’m Carolyn Sackariason. Politics is heating up in Basalt and now that the town manager up and resigned, the government and its elected leaders are facing heavy scrutiny. Sentiment grows to bring back Basalt town managerAngry speakers wants Basalt Town Council to make peace with ScanlonBasaltines sad, angry over Town Manager Scanlon’s departureScanlon submits termination and severance notice to BasaltBasalt council was upset that Scanlon loan repayment wasn’t secured

Shakespeare in the Park has been an Aspen staple for a decade. “As You Like It” is one of Shakespeare’s more fantastical plays, and is this year’s work of choice from the Bard. But rather than using more fantastical tropes like in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “As You Like It” is described as a pastoral comedy.

Government transparency, civil discourse and what to do now that the town manager has quit are issues facing the town of Basalt. Joining News Director Carolyn Sackariason on Valley Roundup are Scott Condon, reporter for the Aspen Times, Cindy Hirschfeld, editor of Aspen Sojourner Magazine and Aspen Times columnist Roger Marolt. You can hear more of the conversation which includes Aspen Daily News Editor Curtis Wackerle at 3:30 p.m. on Aspen Public Radio news.

In an attempt to clarify Colorado law regarding rentals, lawyers presented at an event hosted by the Aspen Young Professionals on Tuesday.

Local photographer and filmmaker Peter McBride will be featured tonight as part of the MountainSummit: Mountainfilm festival.

Basalt residents packed the town council chambers Tuesday night in the wake of town manager Mike Scanlon’s resignation last Friday. Aspen Public Radio’s Elizabeth Stewart-Severy reports. Over a dozen people criticized town council and voiced support for Scanlon, who had been town manager for nearly four years. Just after appointing assistant town manager Judi Tippetts to Scanlon’s former post, Mayor Jacque Whitsitt told the crowd that council did not ask Scanlon to leave and that he did a good

Summer in downtown Aspen is bright with colorful flowers and green parks, and many of those spaces are also working hard to clean up runoff from storms before it hits the river.

The Ninth Judicial District Attorney’s Office is resurrecting a program for sexual assault victims in the valley. The SANE program, which stands for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, has been dormant for four years. Aspen Public Radio’s Carolyn Sackariason spoke with District Attorney Sherry Caloia about the effort.

This week on Cross Currents, The Little Nell Hotel is hosting a BBQ cookoff with top Aspen chefs to benefit the Aspen Homeless Shelter Thursday.

When Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson returned from their tours of duty in Iraq, they came back changed men. They were dealing with moral injuries, more than physical ones. Both were dealing with post traumatic stress disorder.