By scott miller AVON — Before Avon became an incorporated town in the early 1980s, the place at the base of Beaver Creek was a ranching community. Now residents are trying to preserve one of the last vestiges of the days before the ski industry came to town.A barn built by Albert and Frances Hahnewald […]
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By Krista Driscoll Dan Buchanan can’t walk, but that hasn’t stopped him from flying. More than 30 years ago, Buchanan, a resident of Dayton, Nevada, was busy pursuing his private pilot’s license and logging his thrills soaring off mountaintops in a hang glider in Lake Tahoe, California, when an accident changed the course of his [
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By Randy Wyrick VAIL — Change those five words — “We’ve never done that before” — to “That’s gonna be so awesome!” and you have the basic premise behind Uplift, a Christian music festival.It’s next Sunday in Vail’s Ford Amphitheater.The goal is not complicated.“To bring our community together, to lift up the
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By Melanie Wong Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series about a Frisco cyclist’s month-long bike tour in Italy. Read the first article of the series at www.vaildaily.com. The first article chronicles Rob Philippe and his wife Valerie’s bike tour from Bolzano, Italy, to Venice, where this article continues.If Venice is
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By Chris Freud COLORADO SPRINGS — They started here. They hope to end it here.Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley cross-country got a look at the new state course and posted some great results at Cheyenne Mountain Stampede in Colorado Springs on Friday.The Huskies and Devils competed in different races in Friday’s opener, but both had [&hellip
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By Edward Stoner EAGLE COUNTY — Thousands of at-risk college students in rural Colorado will receive financial and academic support over the next five years, thanks to an expanded federal TRIO grant that will empower Colorado Mountain College to provide even more support services throughout its six-county district.College administrators learned r
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By Chris Freud DELTA — Welcome home, Battle Mountain soccer, sort of.The Huskies finished up their western swing with a nice 6-0 thumping in their league opener at Delta on Saturday.Combined with a 1-0 nonconference win at Montrose, Battle Mountain had a good weekend to start off the season.“Four goal scorers and a clean sheet,” […]
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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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