By Ben Trollinger SUMMIT COUNTY — Imagine paramedics in the back of a speeding ambulance, frantically working to keep a patient alive. Inside that relatively controlled environment, they’re pumping oxygen, administering an IV and checking vital signs. Now picture that kind of life-saving intervention playing out on the steepest of mountain
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By WILL GRANDBOIS GLENWOOD SPRINGS — A Silt man was among three people arrested in connection with a series of scams around the country this summer. The hunt began in July, when at least eight gas stations in Eagle, Garfield and Mesa counties fell victim to a three-person phone scam. It ranged over nine states […]
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By Melanie Wong EAGLE — “Today we’re going to learn how to save lives,” Lynn Blake told a class of fourth graders. Not too many classes start that way, but the Brush Creek Elementary students were among hundreds of other kids this month who learned how to recognize signs of sudden cardiac arrest, how to […]
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By Melanie Wong EAGLE COUNTY — The Bright Future Foundation was among a select group of domestic violence organizations from around the country that received a $10,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation earlier this month. The funds will go toward the Foundation’s Freedom Ranch safe house, crisis hotline and especially help with the foundati
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE COUNTY —Today, we pose the following questions to the candidates for the Eagle County sheriff: Does anyone really care what kind of plaques you have hanging on your wall when they call you for help? How are you going to pay for it? James van Beek, Republican While I certainly am […]
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By scott miller VAIL — The days may be numbered for the plastic shopping bag in Vail. The Vail Town Council last year took shopping bags out of the equation while it was working on a town-wide recycling measure. Now, with the recycling ordinance passed, the council will take up the bag-ban idea at its […]
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By Edward Stoner Upcoming events • Today: Blood pressure, pulse and blood sugar check by Eagle County Paramedics at the Golden Eagle Senior Center, 11:30 a.m. • Today, Wednesday, Thursday: No exercise classes at the Golden Eagle Senior Center this week. • Wednesday: Blood pressure, pulse and blood sugar check by Eagle County Paramedics at [&h
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By Edward Stoner Here’s something I bet you didn’t know. If you combine the words ISIS and Ebola and rearrange the letters, it spells “bile oasis.” While CNN’s gone full Benghazi on Ebola and Fox is using the double-barrel shotgun approach on anything they can possibly attach to Obama, the rest of us are swimming […]
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By Melanie Wong VAIL — The U.S. Forest Service has published a final record of decision regarding the Vail Resorts’ summer mountain adventure improvements, Epic Discovery. The project has been a few years in the making, pending finalization of regulations and a process of approval through the National Environmental Protection Agency and U.S
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By Melanie Wong VAIL — A few years after the project was first submitted, Vail Resorts’ Epic Discovery summer adventure plans got the major and final green light from the U.S. Forest Service. The Forest Service published the “final record of decision” for the project, Vail Resorts announced on Monday. The Forest Service’s Dave Nee
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