By caramie schnell One thousand shows. Two thousand hours. Every week for more than 19 years. That’s how much Scott Peterson, aka DJ Weez, likes reggae. Weez — which we’ll call him here since there are plenty of people who likely don’t even know his real name — was surprised when he recorded his 500th […]
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE — Colorado voters don’t have to wait until Nov. 4 to cast their ballots, and hundreds of thousands aren’t. In Eagle County, 3,194 voters had already cast ballots by Tuesday, said Teak J. Simonton, Eagle County clerk and recorder. Eagle County’s early voters join 332,050 voters across Colorado who had cast [
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By Andre Salvail It was the evening of Aug. 23; the skies were dark, and temperatures were unseasonably low. Despite rains in the area earlier in the day, the roads were reportedly dry. Illinois resident Meleyna Kistner, 21, a mechanical engineering student at a prestigious Indiana university — described as family-oriented and environmentally con
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By WILL GRANDBOIS Each October, pumpkins appear mysteriously along the Fryingpan River between Basalt and Ruedi Reservoir. They range from tiny decorative gourds all the way up to uncarved jack o’lanterns, and you can find them perched on rocks in the middle of the river, nestled in the bookcase-like rock walls along the road, or […]
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By Chris Freud And an entire season will come down to 15-20 minutes. This running is a strange sport. Nothing matters — not the 400-500 miles somebody’s run during the offseason, not all the grueling practices, not all the regular season races, not even last week’s big regional race in Delta — except for 3.1 […]
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By Lauren Glendenning ASPEN — Gov. John Hickenlooper is a Democrat feeling the heat in Colorado — that is if you believe the polls. The latest Quinnipiac University poll a week ago puts former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, the Republican gubernatorial challenger, at 46 percent over Hickenlooper’s 42 percent, with a 3.1-point margin of error. [&
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE COUNTY — Today, we pose the following question to two candidates for the Eagle County Board of Commissioners: Will you resign the positions to which you have been elected (Jeanne McQueeney, school board; Dick Mayne, Gypsum Town Council)? Will you or any business with which you are associated continue receiving money [&hellip
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By scott miller VAIL — Town officials started talking about community recycling and waste reduction in 2009. The town may act to ban plastic grocery store bags by 2015. The Vail Town Council on Tuesday got a relatively in-depth look at a potential ban on grocery bags, and a number of residents turned out to […]
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By John LaConte EAGLE COUNTY — The Ski and Snowboard Club Vail swap’s 45th year is on pace to see 50 percent more public check-in items than the 44th. And for a nonprofit organization that relies on donations to take their ever-growing club of snow-sports athletes to the next level, that’s 100 percent good news. […]
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By Chris Freud EDWARDS — Before we get to the vagaries of Friday’s (and hopefully) Saturday’s Class 2A District 5 Volleyball Tournament for Vail Christian, some housekeeping. The Saints (14-5 overall and 11-1 in league) won what we’ve been calling the 2A Slope Northern Division, or the Gore Division. That is, in fact, considered
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