By Randy Wyrick VAIL — Rachel Ledon finally put in perspective how AWESOME the Battle Mountain’s Class of 2015 is.“Our entire community is excited about Battle Mountain’s Class of 2015,” she said. “2015 is everywhere. Every bumper has a 2015 sticker on it, Vail Resorts built an event around us, and people started selling memorab
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By Randy Wyrick GYPSUM — God loves everyone all the time, but on graduation day, he loves those delightful young people in the square hats most of all.That’s how you explain the rain, or lack of it at Eagle Valley High School’s commencement Saturday morning.It might be a metaphor for everything the grads were told: […]
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By John LaConte EDWARDS — Quoting the murdered rapper 2Pac, Vail Christian administrator Patrick Beaudine on Saturday told seniors to remember it’s hard to live without God.“Jesus is your best friend,” Beaudine said. “And I’m not talking about the little wimpy Jesus … I’m talking about the Jesus that took on the poli
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By Randy Wyrick The Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy’s 18 graduates are embodied in these two astounding statistics:They excelled both athletically and academically, even though some of them have more than 100 absences — all excused for very good reasons — such as kicking ski booty in international competitions.Their average ACT scores ra
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By Randy Wyrick Red Canyon High School’s graduation is a celebration that opens with heavy metal processional and a standing ovation and ends with Alice Cooper belting out “School’s Out!”As their 56 graduates made their way to their seats, the crowd was too proud to sit, so they stood and applauded. Then Austen Davis amazed [&hellip
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By Krista Driscoll The only springtime traffic you’ll run into in the valley of Green Mountain Falls, 15 minutes west of Colorado Springs and a two-and-a-half hour drive from Eagle County, will be at a stop for the rows of goslings crossing the road. May is a quiet time for this small town, and as […]
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By Chris Freud We hope everyone had a good graduation.As always, we, at the Vail Daily, are excited for you, not only for your achievements, but for that fact that it’s time for the sports editor to play golf. Yeah, we’ve been going hard since August trying to keep up with you. We’re ready for […]
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By caramie schnell EDWARDS — Three years ago, The Bookworm of Edwards launched a children’s writing contest. Each year, they publish the winning stories in a book titled “Ungoverned Children.” The title is based off a famous quote by Mark Twain:“The irritating thing about ungoverned children is that they often make as orderly and valu
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