By Melanie Wong What does a snail’s world look like? Why are fireflies disappearing? In the midst of drought and blazes, how will California farmers and ranchers survive? What will our forests look like after the pine-beetle infestation is over?These may not have been questions most people have ever asked, but they’re topics that severa
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By John LaConte On the Hill is brought to you by The Steadman Clinic and the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. In a throwback episode to 2014, Vail Daily On the Hill correspondent John LaConte goes off roading up Red Mountain trail in Glenwood Springs with Glenwood Adventure Company, whose off-road Segway tours take riders up […]
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By Chris Freud The dateline was Eagle-Vail, and Battle Mountain football won in Week 2 against Soroco, 42-0, on Sept. 5, 1997, my first story for the Vail Daily.Princess Diana’s funeral got the cover.I’m still a little peeved by that.In that first fall, Eagle Valley football, coached by some guy named John Ramunno, made the […]
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By Randy Wyrick GEORGETOWN — Traci Cunningham, 29, will end her life in prison, and as awful as that might be, the beginning of her life might be worse.“The child was subjected to things that are unspeakable and was probably not loved until she met someone with unconditional love to give. Penny Cunningham gave that […]
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By Melanie Wong EAGLE COUNTY — By the middle of next summer, Eagle County’s medical services will have expanded significantly, with new facilities from Colorado-based Centura Health and managed care giant Kaiser Permanente. Vail Valley Medical Center is also in the midst of a major expansion that is slated to be finished in 2019.Influx of [
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By Randy Wyrick EDWARDS — If you’re old enough to remember Howard Cosell’s microphone shaking, you know what Parkinson’s disease looks like.But what if there was a way to make the tremors stop or at least control them?People with Parkinson’s have abnormal electrical function in the bottom of their brain. Deep brain stimula
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By Randy Wyrick MINTURN — Vi Brown was helping pack up the last bit of her last Eagle Valley Community Fund rummage sale. She was standing out front of the building in Minturn’s Maloit Park, letting her mind wander back over decades of stuff that rolled in and out of those doors, all the friends […]
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By Randy Wyrick MINTURN — Vi Brown was helping pack up the last bit of her last Eagle Valley Community Fund Rummage Sale. She was standing out front of the building in Minturn’s Maloit Park, letting her mind wander back over decades of stuff that rolled in and out of those doors, all the friends […]
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By Edward Stoner VAIL — Luca Rodoni wasn’t one of those musical prodigies who sat down at his first piano lesson as a small boy and started playing a symphony.“When I was young, I hated it,” says the high school senior, one of 12 teenagers selected from a massive pool of applicants to partake in […]
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By Krista Driscoll EAGLE-VAIL — The annual four-course Harvest Dinner, hosted by Grouse Mountain Grill and served family-style in the Eagle-Vail Community Garden, is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 9. The dinner begins with passed hors d’oeuvres at 6 p.m., with family-style seating at long community tables, and 100 percent of the proceeds wi
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