By Melanie Wong Somewhere, somehow, Cary Pierce thinks music festivals lost sight of the music. As one half of Jackopierce, his longtime acoustic duo with Jack O’Neill, Pierce has seen festivals grow and expand until they’re almost unpalatable. The scene is hardly enticing: It’s a young couple huddled for warmth in a grimy, mud-st
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By Edward Stoner As a concept, health and wellness has been on our radar screen in the Vail Valley for years, yet it still remains an elusive idea outside of the clearly understood traditional medical and orthopedic realm. There are a number of programs that have been implemented throughout the county stressing workplace wellness over […]
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By Edward Stoner It probably doesn’t happen as much as you’d like, but from time to time, you have some extra disposable income. When this happens, how should you use the funds? Assuming you have adequate emergency savings — typically, three to six months’ worth of living expenses — should you pay off debts, or […]
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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — Sue Franciose thinks the county coroner’s office could do more than it does today. That’s why she’s running to unseat a 12-year incumbent. Franciose, a Republican, is a long-time nurse and medical specialist. For 12 years, she was a cardiac “profusionist,” running the heart/lung machines that k
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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — In college, Kara Bettis thought she might pursue a career in medicine. But a class speaker guided her in a different direction. Bettis the incumbent Eagle County coroner, recalled a class speaker one afternoon at Colorado State University recommended that instead of medicine, she should consider a career as [&hellip
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By Chris Freud GYPSUM — Eagle Valley softball is a work in progress, but there were really tangible signs of growth in Wednesday’s 16-6 loss to Basalt at the Gypsum Town Sports Complex. Basalt, a team that made the 3A state playoffs last year and is off to an 8-4 start this fall, thumped the […]
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By Chris Freud Are we having fun yet? The fall is probably my favorite of all the seasons because the action comes at breakneck speed. There are a lot of good local teams and I just couldn’t make up the plot twists if I tried. Grid talk • Eagle Valley football, congratulations on completing Part […]
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By Edward Stoner VAIL — Vail Fire Chief Mark Miller has announced the hiring of Paul Cada to fill the newly created position of wildland program administrator. Cada will be overseeing the operations of the wildland fire crew as well as assisting community members with wildland fire mitigation activities. Cada comes to Vail from the […]
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE COUNTY — If Tuesday’s debate is any indication — and it is — this fall’s bare knuckles political brawl will be the coroner’s race. Challenger Sue Franciose says incumbent coroner Kara Bettis isn’t doing everything possible to ensure organ and tissue donation. Bettis disagrees, saying it’s no
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE — Airports are a hole in the sky through which money falls, and $8.53 million just fell on the Eagle County Regional Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration gave the airport $8,532,153 to resurface the runway apron — the big concrete area where commercial aircraft park adjacent to the airport terminal gates. […
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