By Melanie Wong It’s not everyday you see a gaggle of women decked in full-face helmets riding beefy downhill bikes — but that’s most Wednesdays at Keystone Bike Park.At a recent Women’s Wednesday, no less than 12 women were cruising around the skills park at Keystone, many of them experiencing downhill mountain biking for the [
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE – The 75th annual Eagle County Fair and Rodeo was a huge success, no matter how you measure it, organizers said.Fair attendance was way up, and so were ticket sales for this year’s PRCA rodeo.Ticket sales hit $135,619, more than $30,000 ahead of the projections, and way ahead of 2014’s $113,000, […]
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By Pam Boyd EAGLE — Since 1994, a natural gas transmission line has been funneling the commodity right underneath a sizeable swath of the Eagle Ranch neighborhood.The line itself hasn’t undergone any changes, but the ground above it has undergone substantial ones. For that reason, Sourcegas needs to either upgrade the existing line or total
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By Edward Stoner VAIL — The Vail and Beaver Creek Chophouse restaurants have been sold to longtime local business owner and performer Phil Long and his partners.Long and partners Daniel and Stacy Roemer bought the restaurants last week from Group 970 owner Brian Nolan and will take over ownership and operation Aug. 20.Nolan has owned […]
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By scott miller DOTSERO — The western end of the Vail Valley has for years been little more than a wide spot in the road. That may be changing. There’s new vitality bubbling in the area, thanks in large part to strong demand for homes at the lower end of the market. Two Rivers Village, […]
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By Edward Stoner EDWARDS — Registration for fall semester at Colorado Mountain College in Edwards is underway. Many classes, including those taught via online learning, start the week of Aug. 24. Other classes start throughout the semester.Each household should receive a course schedule in the mail. More information and registration is available
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By Edward Stoner EDWARDS — Registration for fall semester at Colorado Mountain College in Edwards is underway. Many classes, including those taught via online learning, start the week of Aug. 24. Other classes start throughout the semester.Each household should receive a course schedule in the mail. More information and registration is available
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By Randy Wyrick GYPSUM — You know how Halle Berry looked when she played Catwoman?Birkin sports cars sound like Halle Berry looks. They also look like Halle Berry looks.You can have your own — Birkin sports car, probably not Halle Berry.Tom Carlin operates Birkin Direct USA in Gypsum and imports the cars from overseas. He […]
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By Chris Freud For the first time since the fall of 1980, John Ramunno will not be on the sidelines during an Eagle Valley football game.Yeah, that news come out in March, but it’s still kind of abstract until Tom LaFramboise is the on the sideline when the Devils head to Vista Peak during the […]
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By John LaConte VAIL — There’s still no adult division in the Kids Adventure Games, but the annual event continues to grow bigger, just like the competitors it attracts.The event includes activities like mountain biking, river tubing, slacklining over a mud pit and repelling down the cliffs on Pepi’s Face. It sells out every year, [
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