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By Chris Freud MONTROSE — Donnie Leavitt’s had a genuinely interesting career for Battle Mountain soccer.As a freshman, he was the back-up goalie to Christian Espinoza as the Huskies went on their now-mythological 20-0 state-title run. He became the goalie the next year, and won 15 games as the Huskies went to the quarterfinals. Last [&hell

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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — Long-range weather prediction is still an inexact science based on both current patterns and history. Those predictions get more tricky when historical anomalies enter the mix. That’s the case for the coming fall and winter.Meteorologists have long known about “El Nino” patterns in the Pacific Ocean west o

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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — Long-range weather prediction is still an inexact science based on both current patterns and history. Those predictions get more tricky when historical anomalies enter the mix. That’s the case for the coming fall and winter.Meteorologists have long known about El Nino patterns in the Pacific Ocean west of Ecua

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By Edward Stoner AVON — As the population and economy of Eagle County has grown throughout the years, so has the appetite for locally raised food among many Vail Valley residents. Newly opened Colorado Meat Company, located in Avon, hopes to provide an answer to that increasing appetite as the valley’s own cut-to-order butcher shop. [&helli

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By Randy Wyrick Monte Davis was blown up four times in three weeks while fighting in the Middle East. He looked across 190 yards of water to the green on a playoff hole with the match on the line and smiled as he ignored good advice from a professional golfer — to lay up and […]

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By John LaConte On the Hill is brought to you by The Steadman Clinic and the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. VIDEO: In a throwback episode to 2014, Vail Daily On the Hill correspondent John LaConte reports from the pickleball courts at Golden Peak which host a revolving cast of 60 or so pickleball players 6 […]

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