By Edward Stoner AVON — Public Access TV 5 and KZYR are hosting a public forum Oct. 8 featuring candidates for this fall Avon Town Council election. The campaign season is expected to be lively with 10 candidates on the ballot to fill four slots. The event offers an opportunity for the Avon electorate to […]
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By Edward Stoner Have you ever heard the phrase “We become what we think about”? Or, “People who think more positively are typically more successful”? I’ve heard both and yet wondered in the past how, if most of our thought is unconscious, do successful people purposefully think more positively? Though it may seem contrary, the [&hell
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By Lauren Glendenning Editor’s note: This is the second part in a four-part series looking at suicide, drug and alcohol addiction, and mental health resources in the mountains. Read tomorrow’s paper for part three in this series focusing on drug and alcohol use in the mountains. All seven of Eagle County’s 2013 suicides were white
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By Lauren Glendenning This is the first part in a four-part series looking at suicide, drug and alcohol addiction and mental health resources in the mountains. Molly Fiore thought she wanted to kill herself — she had the thought many times throughout the course of 20 years. When she couldn’t seem to make herself do […]
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By Edward Stoner Colorado is home to one of America’s fastest land mammals, Antilocapra Americana, better known as the Pronghorn. Pronghorns are often referred to as pronghorn antelope, which is misleading as a pronghorn is not related to the antelope family (much like our state bird, the lark bunting, which is actually a sparrow). Pronghorn
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By caramie schnell Whoever concocted the Italian proverb — Mangiare per vivere e non vivere per mangiare (eat to live and not live to eat) — obviously never dined at Ristorante il Centro in Priocca d’Alba, Italy. Had that survivalist visited the decades-old temple to Piemontese cuisine, they definitely would have wanted “to live to [&he
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By Chris Freud OGDEN, Utah — Local endurance athlete Josiah Middaugh finished second in Saturday’s Xterra USA Championship triathlon in Ogden, Utah, and wrapped up the American season points total for second year in a row. However, Middaugh wasn’t exactly bubbling. “I feel really good about my performance,” he said. “But I’
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By Chris Freud LONGMONT — Welcome home, Vail Christian football. In a novel concept, the Saints actually have two homes game in a row — a veritable bounty — after starting the season with three road games in four weeks. Vail Christian is returning to Eagle County fresh off a 42-16 win over Rocky Mountain […]
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By Chris Freud GYPSUM — For those who did not suffer some form of cardiac incident during Saturday’s Battle Mountain-Eagle Valley volleyball game, the Huskies came away with a dramatic 25-27, 25-22, 23-25, 25-18, 15-10 victory over the Devils in Gypsum. Trite as it sounds, neither team deserved to come away with a loss from […]
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By John LaConte WILDRIDGE — Trails in the West Avon Preserve are now much closer to having full connectivity thanks to the efforts of 270 workers at Vail Resorts’ volunteer day. An annual event here in the valley, this year the Vail Resorts work day was part of the company’s new EpicPromise effort, where volunteers […]
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