Crested Butte News

11/15/2025

Congrats to the Crested Butte Titans boy soccer team, 2A state champions! - photos by Alex Fenlon

11/15/2025

TITANS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!

11/14/2025

This week’s editorial…

In what by all accounts appeared to be an unnecessary car wreck last week, I have been at times sad,

11/13/2025

11/13/2025

As the valley heads into the great 2025/26 ski season, airline and lodging reservations are looking good for the early part of the season while February and March are lagging a bit compared to last year.

Keeping an eye on February and March By Mark Reaman As the valley heads into the great 2025/26 ski s

11/13/2025

Good Morning Highway 135 Travelers!! This Saturday, November 15, 2025 we will be going down the road with our last big bunch of cows. Look for us from 10:30 am - 1 pm heading south from mile marker 22 (above Slate river crossing) to mile marker 17 (Danni Ranch). This is gonna be a big one, but it’s only cows, so they should scoot. Thanks for all your patience and love throughout this past year. As always, slow down, be safe, and enjoy the ride!

11/12/2025

Northern lights going off in the valley. - Photo by Mallory Zimmerman

11/08/2025

DENVER — Tonight, following an appeal by the Trump administration to block the delivery of full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for the month of November, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration the ability to pause SNAP payments to states, creating more u...

11/06/2025

It seemed like the Crested Butte cross-country team just couldn’t avoid illnesses and injuries right up to the end of the season, but the team dug deep, as they always have, to send both the boys’ and girls’ teams to the 2A state championships on Saturday, November 1.

Senior Cody Pleak closes career on podium By Than Acuff It seemed like the Crested Butte cross-count

11/06/2025

With little choice when it came to policy direction, Crested Butte voters definitively chose experience over youth to lead the Crested Butte town council the next two years. Incumbent mayor Ian Billick was returned to office Tuesday over challenger Anna Fenerty. Billick tallied 405 votes to Fenerty’s 230, a percentage gap of 64% to 36%.

“Democracy is a living entity you need to feed…” By Mark Reaman With little choice when it came to p

11/05/2025

Update as of November 7, 2025
According to records obtained from the Gunnison County courts, Dylan Blessing-Garcia appeared in Gunnison County court on Wednesday, November 5 charged with vehicular homicide, a felony. Judge Ashley Burgemeister set bond at $5,000 and set the next hearing date for November 18 at 9 a.m. Bond was posted for the defendant at the jail on November 5 at 4 p.m. and he was released.

Update as of November 6, 2025:
Gunnison County coroner Michael Barnes officially identified the 38-year-old woman as Crested Butte resident Heather Cooper who was alone in the car when it was struck. He said the cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries.
Sergeant Alvarado of the Colorado State Patrol said Thursday the driver of the GMC Sierra was identified as 18-year-old Dylan Blessing-Garcia from Seattle, Washington. He was treated and released from GVH with minor injuries before being taken to the Gunnison County jail. He confirmed Blessing was booked on a charge of vehicular homicide.

Very sad news to report, a 38-year-old Crested Butte woman was killed in a car accident on Highway 135 this morning.

Local woman killed in two-car crash Wednesday morning A 38-year-old Crested Butte woman was killed W

11/05/2025

Billick wins CB mayor's race:
Final vote tallies shifted the percentage gap slightly from initial results for the Crested Butte mayor's race as same-day votes came in Tuesday evening. Incumbent mayor Ian Billick received 405 votes to challenger Anna Fenerty's 230 votes to retain his seat. That is a 64% to 36% margin. Several hundred people cast their votes in person on Tuesday as 635 total votes were cast in the election.