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By Ross Leonhart Battle Mountain hockey’s Hunter Fox is the only junior to earn first team all-state honors, but it’s what he did off the ice that has him earning more praise.The junior was recently presented the Hobey Baker Foundation award, recognizing a high school hockey player for outstanding performance on and off the ice. [&helli

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By Pam Boyd GYPSUM — Zeth Ramsay and his close family spent three agonizing days watching every single minute of last week’s National Football League Draft and at the end of it all, they were all feeling pretty deflated when not one of the 32 teams called his name.That feeling lasted for about five minutes, […]

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By Pam Boyd GYPSUM — Zeth Ramsay and his close family spent three agonizing days watching every single minute of last week’s National Football League Draft and at the end of it all, they were all feeling pretty deflated when not one of the 32 teams called his name.That feeling lasted for about five minutes, […]

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By Krista Driscoll EDWARDS — There are thousands of stories to be discovered at The Bookworm of Edwards. There are lands to visit, characters to meet and countless adventures to experience from the page. One of the lesser-known stories to discover begins with a coffee farm and ends with your morning cup of joe.On Saturday […]

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By Randy Wyrick VAIL — Ain’t no mountain high enough if you’re Lucas Onan.The Vail ski instructor is spending his summer riding his bicycle coast-to-coast for Bike & Build, which does what the name suggests — bicycle expeditions arranged around helping build affordable housing projects.Appalachian StateOnan, 25, graduated Appala

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By scott miller EAGLE-VAIL — This neighborhood elected two new members to its metropolitan district board, and returned an appointed incumbent, who received the most votes of any of the eight candidates running.Voters elected Chuck Toms, who had been appointed to fill a board vacancy, and David Warner to four-year terms on the board. Kim [&hellip

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By scott miller EAGLE-VAIL — This neighborhood elected two new members to its metropolitan district board and returned an appointed incumbent, who received the most votes of any of the eight candidates running.Voters elected Chuck Toms, who had been appointed to fill a board vacancy, and David Warner to four-year terms. Kim Bell Williams led [&he

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By scott miller EAGLE-VAIL — This neighborhood elected two new members to its metropolitan district board and returned an appointed incumbent, who received the most votes of any of the eight candidates running.Voters elected Chuck Toms, who had been appointed to fill a board vacancy, and David Warner to four-year terms. Kim Bell Williams led [&he

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By Ross Leonhart EDWARDS — Nine candidates ran for four Western Eagle County Metropolitan Recreation District board of directors seats during the polling place election across the county Tuesday.Mikayla Curtis (93 votes), Christopher Pryor (83) and Elizabeth Jones (82) earned four-year terms, and Michael McCormack (90 votes) won the two-year term

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By Randy Wyrick EDWARDS — The valleywide ambulance district won its tax increase election by 24 votes, missing an automatic recount by 10.“People sometimes think their vote does not mean anything, but yes it does,” said Veronica Ross, the district’s administrative manager and designated election official. “We are elated.”Eagle Count

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