By Randy Wyrick The region’s lowest-cost health insurance carrier has breathed its last gasp.Colorado HealthOP did not receive more than $14 million in federal funding it says it had been promised, and is being forced into insolvency by federal and state agencies. HealthOP is the seventh state co-op to collapse across the nation.That leaves m
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By Chris Freud EAST VAIL — The Vail Mountain School and Basalt played to a 1-1 draw and everyone left East Vail happy on Tuesday.Kind of rare for a draw, but it gave the Gore Rangers gents their first league title since 1990, while the Longhorns are also postseason bound after an 0-5 start to […]
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By John LaConte VAIL — Pickleball proponents met with the Town Council at Golden Peak on Tuesday to show them their sport and the noise it puts out.After spending 30 minutes measuring the sound output the sport’s whiffle ball makes when it hits a paddle, and the celebrations that occur when that ball hits (or […]
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By Alli Langley SUMMIT COUNTY — An Avon resident died Sunday after a vehicle accident near Peru Creek east of Keystone.Patrick Fultz, 29, and his dog were ejected when a white Toyota FJ Cruiser rolled over in Warden Gulch. The Summit County Rescue Group responded at 2:12 p.m. to a call about the accident.According to […]
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE COUNTY — Eagle County schools are dominated by two ethnic groups — Hispanic and white — and if a schools’s student body is dominated by one or another, the school district wants to take steps to shift it.The school district wants that percentage to be no higher than 75 percent at […]
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By scott miller VAIL — Jen Mason moved around a lot as a youngster. Vail has been her settle-in spot.More than two decades after moving to town, Mason decided to run for town council. She’s one of four first-time candidates on the ballot, in large part because she now has the time, and, she believes, […]
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE COUNTY — More than 7,000 policyholders in the Rocky Mountain resort region will lose their health insurance if a state agency is allowed to force a low-cost co-op out of the state insurance exchange, effectively putting it out of business.The Colorado Division of Insurance dropped Colorado HealthOP from the state insurance [
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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — This is the time of year when clouds, cool temperatures and a bit of moisture will quicken pulses and shift gazes uphill, looking for traces of white on the mountains. Well, cool your jets, powder hounds — we may get a bit of snow at higher elevations, but not […]
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE COUNTY — Jaye Catherine Clare just wanted to study art.Donna Tolley wanted to study some of the ancient art of massage.They don’t know each other, but they both know this: As impossible as it sounds, life in earthquake ravaged Nepal got tougher. The monsoon season just ended, pouring torrential rain on […]
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By Krista Driscoll International wine professional Jose “Nacho” Ignacio Andres Benito will host a Moro Spanish wine dinner at La Tour restaurant in Vail Village today at 7:30 p.m. Benito will be pouring NV Castellroig Brut Cava, 2013 Hito C21 Ribera del Duero and 2011 Emilio Moro Ribera del Duero.“Nacho, who has been with this […]
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