Toni Kronberg’s City Council candidacy, particularly the ongoing speculation over whether she does or doesn’t live in the city of Aspen, sparked the interest of online readers of The Aspen Times last week.

Kronberg was actually just one of many topics that garnered comment from online readers, but her advance to the June runoff election prompted this observation from one reader:

Of her reported presence in Aspen Village, a subdivision outside the city limits, one reader said, in part:

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But, there was also this:

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Columnist Barry Smith, who’s headed to Canada this summer to perform his brand of one-man comedy, didn’t impress at least one reader with his May 14 column about his coming travels. Someone posted this response:

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Last week’s news that part-time Aspen resident Burt Fingerhut, a well-known philanthropost, had pleaded guilty to a securities scam, generated several online comments. Said one:

Wrote another:

An online news report of a drug bust in Summit County sparked this observation:

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Finally, Jim Paussa’s May 16 letter to the editor, in which he contended Basalt is not divided over growth (he says the citizenry wants the same rate of growth or something less), one reader concluded:

Said another:

And finally, there was this:

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