The main boat ramp at Wahweap Marina was unusable due to low water levels in Lake Powell in December 2021. Water levels are projected to soon fall even lower than this at the nation’s second-largest reservoir. Credit: Heather Sackett/Aspen Journalism
Maria Judith Alvarez, second from left, and Monica Muniz, center, stand with several other Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park residents outside the Third Street Center in Carbondale during a community fundraiser on August 23, 2025. The residents went under contract this week to buy their mobile home park for $23 million. Credit: Eleanor Bennett/Aspen Journalism & Aspen Public Radio
This field of alfalfa near Carbondale is grown with water from the Crystal River. Some Colorado River experts are advocating for a permanent reduction in the use of water by agriculture. Credit: Heather Sackett/Aspen Journalism
A large garage door sits closed at the entrance to ICE’s Glenwood Springs field office and short-term detention facility in the Midland Center on May 30, 2025. The city’s planning commission will hold a hearing April 28 to decide whether to revoke the facility’s special use permit after multiple detainees were found to have been held there for more than 12 hours. Credit: Eleanor Bennett/Aspen Journalism & Aspen Public Radio
Lamplighter Mobile Home Park in Rifle sold for about $3.63 million last December to San Francisco-based real estate investment firm, Primrose Real Estate. The 39-unit manufactured home community is part of a portfolio of seven Western Slope parks consisting of more than 700 homesites and recently acquired by the company. Credit: Laurine Lassalle/Aspen Journalism
Several of the graphic novel series that a group of Garfield County residents have requested be restricted, or removed, are shelved at the public library in Silt. Though the books still remain in the county’s libraries, changes could still be coming with the recent appointment of two new library trustees and the search for a new executive director. Credit: Eleanor Bennett / Aspen Journalism & Aspen Public Radio
