By Chris Freud I just want it noted that I’m still doing my job here despite the fact that there might be a cool team in the World Series. I really should be getting a medal for this. More accurately, my co-workers should be getting a medal for this. Here’s an orange-and-black rundown of some […]
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By By ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Pr SOELDEN, Austria — With four different winners over the past four years, the women’s Alpine skiing World Cup lacks a clear favorite for the overall title just before the start of the new season. Lindsey Vonn and Maria Hoefl-Riesch used to be safe bets for the top two spots. […]
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By By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associate SALT LAKE CITY — A series of colorful, eerie faces painted on rocks in some of the West’s most pristine, well-known national parks has sparked an investigation by authorities and a furor online. National Park Service agents have found the images at five parks in California, Utah and Oregon so […]
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By WILL GRANDBOIS GLENWOOD SPRINGS — A six-month drug and racketeering investigation in the Roaring Fork Valley has resulted in the arrests of eight people, five of them from Carbondale. A dozen more arrests are anticipated. Two Rivers Drug Enforcement Team (TRIDENT), in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the 9th Judicial Di
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By scott miller Q: Does it really take just one stamp to mail back our election ballots? I’ve heard it might take more than one. A: According to Eagle County Clerk and Recorder Teak Simonton, the ballot, secrecy sleeve and envelope you’ll mail back for this fall’s elections weighs in right at one ounce. That’s […]
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By scott miller Our endorsement process is pretty straightforward. We evaluate candidates’ remarks in the paper, in public forums and during in-person interviews with our editorial board. We can find consensus most of the time. This is not one of those times. We have a clear division of opinion on the race for Eagle County […]
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By Edward Stoner Practically every form of life has been genetically modified. I say practically because who knows, maybe an algae or alligator or other living amalgam we haven’t discovered yet has gone unaltered since before the dinosaurs died out. Of course, our friends and neighbors who would have our food labeled for presence of […
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By Melanie Wong VAIL — The first time Frank Schoppet proposed to his wife Evelyn, he was in high school and had to ask permission from his mom. The second time, the two were well into their 80s and both had grown children of their own. The Schoppets’ love story recently began another chapter when […]
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By John LaConte Government tracker, Avon Town Council, May 13 evening meeting. Board: Avon Town Council, Tuesday, Oct. 14 regular meeting. Present: Council members Buz Reynolds, Matt Gennett, Jennie Fancher, Rich Carroll, Chris Evans, Dave Dantas and Jake Wolf. The issue: Proposition 105 on the November ballot, a state statute which would require n
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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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