Welcome to Valley Roundup, a review of the top news stories of the week in the Roaring Fork Valley.

This week - Fracking. 

Aspen Public Radio and the Aspen Times toured a drilling and hydraulic fracturing rig in Parachute recently and this week our stories ran.  Joining us are Scott Condon reporter for the Aspen Times and our own Elise Thatcher.

On the November ballot this year voters will have a number of fracking issues to decide, among them whether local communities should have control over oil and gas exploration.

Our reporting looked at one fracking operation run by WPX Energy.  It is one of the big players in the industry.  We got an up close look at what is going on at drilling rig H & P 318.

Moose are showing up this summer at one of Aspen’s most popular destinations; the Maroon Bells.  Already there have been reports of moose charging hikers and the Forest Service closed the trails there for a day this week. The trails have reopened but rangers are warning visitors to be aware of the potential danger.  As Aspen Public Radio’s Dorothy Atkins explains they are also considering other options.

McCloskey Speaker Series - The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution featuring Walter Isaacson

President and CEO of the Aspen Institute Walter Isaacson will speak about his forthcoming book, set to be released in October, 2014, by Simon & Schuster. Mr. Isaacson is the author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.

Today is Friday, July 11th.

Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han will give a master class this morning at 10am in Harris Concert Hall.

At 6pm in the Benedict Music Tent, it’s dynamic conductor Nicholas McGegan leading the Aspen Chamber Symphony in works by Schumann, Schnittke and Mendelssohn’s popular “Italian” Symphony. Remember to arrive early for Mozart piano music at 4:45pm in Harris Concert Hall.

Tomorrow at 10am in the Wheeler Opera House, see up and coming opera stars in a variety of scenes at the weekly Master Class. At 7pm at the Wheeler, the second of three fully staged performances of Tchaikovsky’s story of passion and yearning, Eugene Onegin, sung in English.

At 8pm tomorrow, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and pianist Anton Nel perform works of Mozart, Somei Satoh, Ravel, Piazzolla and Mason Bates in Harris Concert Hall.

Sunday morning at 9am in Harris, you can hear the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra in works by some of this summer’s composition students.

At 4pm on Sunday in the Benedict Music Tent, the Aspen Festival Orchestra in two of the most beloved works from the Romantic period: Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and Dvorak’s New World Symphony. James Gaffigan conducts.

Today we have a tour of a drilling and fracking site near the Roaring Fork Valley

We’ll hear exactly what goes on there and what it sounds like.

That site and many others in Colorado use infrastructure called injection wells and they’re causing earthquakes in Oklahoma.

Legal marijuana plants and edibles must be tested before they’re sold and just three labs are doing all the testing.

A new brewery in Glenwood Springs debuts a new kind of beer in the Valley – be prepared to pucker up.

And a local favorite tells all about his new book, about hosting the long running Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

That’s all coming up on Mountain Edition... right now.