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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE COUNTY — More than 200 teens are trying to fish their way to a world championship this week.The World Youth Fly Fishing Championships are in our area, with more than 200 fly fishers ages 14 to 18 hailing from 10 countries.This is a true world championship, said John Knight with the […]

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By Edward Stoner EDWARDS — Since 1996, more than 180 graduating high school seniors have received Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarships to attend Colorado Mountain College. This year, 14 more students received news that Alpine Bank will cover the cost of their tuition, fees and textbooks for two years.Three Vail Valley-based students are inclu

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By scott miller VAIL — Marthe Cohn was a devoutly religious 19-year-old French Jewish girl when the Nazis invaded France in 1939. Her life then took a turn so extraordinary that it could have been pulled straight from a Hollywood movie script. While the rest of her family fled south Marthe decided to fight back. […]

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By scott miller Until the Federal Reserve actually pulls the trigger and raises its benchmark rate for the first time since June 2006, stocks, bonds and investors will likely twist and turn on the latest economic reports and pronouncements from Fed committee members.Last week, the Dow fell all five days as investors started coming to […]

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By Melanie Wong VAIL — After a taking brief hiatus to celebrate the 2015 Vail International Dance Festival, free concerts are back with Super Diamond – the Neil Diamond Tribute band taking the free concert stage tonight at 6:30 p.m. for the Crazy Mountain Brewery’s Hot Summer Nights series at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater […]

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By Melanie Wong VAIL — After a taking brief hiatus to celebrate the 2015 Vail International Dance Festival, free concerts are back with Super Diamond, a Neil Diamond tribute band, taking the stage tonight as part of the Hot Summer Nights free concert series at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail. The show starts […]

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By Melanie Wong Now that Colorado is finally moving into the hot days of summer, be aware of how warmer temps affect edibles – especially our No. 1 homegrown crop, tomatoes.While we often think tomatoes thrive on warm days, that’s not exactly the case. According to the tomato growers at Jung, it takes about five […]

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By Melanie Wong VAIL — Sharing a compilation of stories that investigates pre-birth memory and spiritual amnesia, Neil Carman, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Carman, Ph.D., explore how the soul in the human body is only part of its experience in a multi-dimensional universe. The two will speak in Vail on Wednesday to discuss stories from those […]

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By Melanie Wong VAIL — Like many youngsters who saw Alan Shepard become the first American to travel into space, Anna Fisher had dreamed of becoming an astronaut since the age of 12.However, as she got older, the dream seemed to become less realistic. “All the astronauts were pilots, and it never occurred to me […]

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By John LaConte On the Hill is brought to you by The Steadman Clinic and the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. VIDEO: Vail Daily On the Hill correspondent John LaConte reports from the Kids Adventure Games in Vail, Colorado, where an extreme slip n” slide, called the Slope-N-Slide, has been set up on a black diamond […]

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